GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1936, 19 November 1906, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

I’ItKSS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT Loudon, Nov. 1(5. Several of tho now Vaal River Diamond Company's founder’s shares have been sold at auction in Loudon. The first one renlisod £-210, and being re-auctioned a few minutes afterwards brought £0250., After a series of incendiary firos at Croydon, one involving tho less of £do 000, four men wei o arrested, and confessed to boing tho autht rs.

Tho cruiser Doris and destroyer Vixen bombarded tho wrecked warship Montugu, with a view to testing- guns versus armor.

Capetown, Nov. 16. In the Capo Assembly Mr Q-. Mayden, Minister for Railways, in announcing that the Government was seeking an abrogation of the vivendi with I'crtugal in reference to the harbor at Lorenzo Marques, dwelt upon the necessity of the Imperial Government consulting the colonies when negotiating treaties affecting colonial interests.

The Johannesburg kStar roports the completo success of a drilling machino, which enables four natives to do work which now takes fourteen, using hand drills, to do. The newspaper dec'ares the development indicates the solution of the labor problem.

Sofia, Nov. 16. M. Petkoff, tho new Bulgarian Premier, announced in the Sobranje I that it was Bulgaria's duty to strong--then the army if she wished to be taken into account in the event of changes. He warned the Porte to execute reforms in Macedonia if it did not desire foreign intervention. New York, Nov. IG. The New York Board of Education refuses to countenance President Roosevelt’s spelling reform A combination is beiDg formed in New York with a capital of twenty million dollars, the object bei:v > - to bring all the wireless telegraph c*,,.. panies operating in England, the | United States, and Canada, under one control. 1

Harris, a negro desperado, who killed five and wounded a dozen people at Ashville, North Carolina, escaped to tho woods, pursued by bloodhounds. Ho refused to surrender after firing all his cartridges, but folded his arms and awaited a volley from his suers, which killed him. Sydney, Nov. 17. Harris was serving a ten years’ sentence, and was employed in tho bootmakers’ department at the prison. A nugget weighing 135 ounces has been found near Wellington. Obituary: Mr Oily Deering, the actor. Adelaide, Nov. 17. Timber trade employees and butchers are seeking increases in wagep, and threaten to strike. Melbourne, Nov. 17. The area of the building strike is widening. It is estimated that 2000 men are affected.