GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1944, 28 November 1906, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

j I'ItUSS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT Loudon, Nov. 26. I Mr Bel), a momlior of tho llouso of I Commons, spoaitiug at a conference at j Birmingham accused tho officials of I tlio Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers with making many maliI cious lopreaontiitions to croate a bad feeling against (ho officials of tho Amalgamated Society of Railway Her* I vants. Tho former society refused to discuss tho subject, and its representatives withdrew from tho conference. Owing to scarcity of moat iu Germany, tho Lo won toft exports of herrings havo increased in throe yoais from tho valuo of ten thousand to three hundred and forty thousand I pounds sterling. Tho struggle for supremacy in tlio Welsh party between Mr Lloyd ' Goorgo and Mr D. A. Thomas increases. Mr Thomas accuses Mr Goorgo of appointing a Welsh journalist to a rocoivership in bankruptcy at a salary of seven hundred pounds as a reward. Owing to tho grocers’ boycott of tho trust, tho soaps combination has lost a million and a half pounds sterling. A Royal Commission to enquire into

the operations of tho shipping ring’s system of deferred rebates, includes Messrs Arthur Cohen, K.C., (Chairman), Henry Buchenougb, W. P. Koeves, Captain Collins (Commonwealth representative in London), Bir Alfred Bateman, and Lords Inver* clyde and Jersey. The stoker Moody, the ringleader in the Portsmouth riot, has been sentenced to five years’ penal servitude. Paris, Nov. 26.

Cesbron ran a matrimonial agoncy in London. A collection of weapons, spades, and axes has beon found in

Cesbron’s other isolated villa on the outskirts of Versailles. The floor of the cellar looked as if it had recently been disturbed. Tho police aro malt ing excavations.

Miss Hodgkins, an Australian artist, exhibited several pictures depicting Italian life at the International W ater Colorists’ Exhibition in Paris, and received favorable notices.

The crew of the French training ship numbered 321. They were asleep at tho time of the disaster, and were roscued with difficulty. The whole of the troops and bluejackets stationed at Toulon were summoned, but failed to extinguish the flames. The authorities then torpedoed the vessel and sunk her.

Sydney, Nov. 27.

Indignation has been aroused by the treatment accorded by the authorities at 'I hursday Island to the shipwrecked Chinese passengers from the steamer Australian. The European and Chinese passengers returned from Port Darwin to Thursday Island for transhipment to the East. The Europeans were housed at the best hotels, but the Chinese, including many merchants hailing from all parts of Australia and Now Zealand, were compelled to go aboard a coal hulk moored off the shore.

Archdeacon Langley, brother of the late Bishop, has been nominated for the bishopric of Bondigo,

The modical men who attended Dr Uaisysz, the Pasteur Institute expert who is experimenting with rabbit virus at Broughtou Island, diagnosed the trouble as ptomaine poisoning, but Dr Danysz, after an investigation, declares that the illnesses wore due to zinc poisoning through drinking water coL lected over zinc roofs.