GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1939, 22 November 1906, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

PRESS ASSOCIATION—OOI'VaiOIIT

Loudon, Nov. 20. Lord St, Alnwyn, «s arbitrator, rejected tho South Wales miners’ dotnnud for an increase of V 1 per centum in wages. Frank Orumliwh, a sa lor described as nil Australian, was remanded in London for atten pted murder Ho ■> isi'rd his Rwecth art and used a re-, volver against her and a rival, also a third man who came to her assistance.

'! hn ivtarconi Company denies that it is intended to eutor info an engagement with American capitalists and to amalgamate with other wireless systems. Capetown, Nov. 20. Stephanos fbni', tho Into President Kruger’s grandson, has been found guilty of tho murder of Hermann Davis wbilo co-operating in unearthing an alleged sixty thousand pounds of buried treasure at Diepoort, Transvaal, on July 1 Gth. - Nmit was pronounced insane, and order, d to bo confined. during the Governor’s pleasure.

St. John, Nov. 20

A skipper at the Bay of Islands was fined fifty dollars for convoying Newfoundland fishermen beyond the throe milo limit in order that thoy might join American fishing vessels.

Constantinople, Nov, 20 Greek bands are committing torrible excessos in Macedonia. They killed nineteen and wounded five villagers at Caradja, throwing dynamite cartridges into Thohoußes. Several villagers wore burned to death.

Ottawa Nov 20

Electrical energy from tho falls of Niagara to the extent of forty thou sand horse power is being delivered at Toronto.

The liner Bavarian, stranded near Quebec in 1905, has been refl >ated. The underwriters pay the salvor 33A per cent of the value of the hull, which is valued at £130,000.

Sydney. Nov, 21. The seismograph at Sydney > bservatory between five and eight o’clock on Monday night showed a remarkable disturbance, coincident with that felt at Perth. The Government Astronomer of Westralia thiuks the centre of tho earthquake was 400 miles away in the Indian Ocean.

Adelaide, Nov 21

The slaughtermen’s demand for an increase of wages has been conceded The Register newspaper estimates tho wheat yield of tho State at 19 800,000 bushels, which gives a shipping surplus of 10,366,000 oushels. Melbourne, Nov. 21. The Assembly negatived a proposal to legalise the totalisator. A conference of master builders and other branches of the trade affirmed the principle of forty-eight hours a week, and pledged to combine their interests to defeat tho existing strike.