GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1945, 29 November 1906, Page 4

GENERAL CABLES.

muss association—uorvuiuiir London, Nov. 27. Tlio Financial ‘I hues uuya loading Australian hind cuiupanin.". iu vm greatly strengthened 11 1* • ii‘ jto.’.itloiis eluvium tho punt two youis, aid tan faoo tho future with equanimity, while other companion uvo rapidly improving their position. Mr Chamberlain is regaining strength, ii.o shortly goes abroad. Thu ma.yt.fr and two ox-itttlcuro of

West 1 Lam work house, with tour more guardians, have boon arrested on a charge of conspiracy to do fraud llm Wont Hum Union in commotion with it coal contract. lieutor’s Manilacorrespondent statos that ton out of twenty four pi iso u ora, bolievod to have boon iuoouhued with cholora virus for experimental pur-

poses, liavo died. Tho virus was oontamiuulod witli that of bubonic c plague. The limes' Cairo correspondent says Mustaplia l’asha has come again into high favor with the Court, and is in possession of funds to start an Auglo-> Crunch newspaper opposed to moderate views. The Brookhuuis Autouiobilo Club of Yoy bridge offers two thousand live hundred pounds to tho first aeroplane covering throe miles on their course in eighteen minutes. It suggests tints tho course should form p irf. of the journey for tho i'aily Mail's race to Manchester. rtt football tho "outh Atrie arts scored 18 points agauiot Dublin University’s 3. Port Baid, Nov. 117. The transport uowa wont ashore and blocks 1 tho Sues Canal. Bho was subsequently refloated. Tokio, Nov. 27. An enquiry at Tokio ex juerated the personnel of tho Mikasa for the sink™ iDg of the vetoel, which is officially attributed to decomposition of chemicals causing an explosion. Tho Japanese are bridging the river Yalu at Yongliampo. Paris, Nov 27 G-neral Yegior recommends disbanding thirteen French cuirassier regiments, releasing niuo thous :T)d horses and moo, towards the xormation of one hundred and twenty batteries of heavy field artillery, which are im» ; perativoly needed. Morocco, Nov. 27. Thoro are two Germans in ltaisuli’s camp, apparently in tho capacity ox advisers. Melbourne, Nov. 28. A eouveronue is proceeding between tho representatives of tho Anglican . and Presbyterian churches of Australia to consider tho possibility of ar« 5 riving at a basis of union. Tho deliberations are being conducted in i private, for the present. Mr Daakiu, in the course of an in--1 tervifiw in reference to Mr Kamsay MacDonald’s utterances, said: “It may be pleaded on Mr MacDonald's i behalf that ho is entitled to bo fcteatod ■ ns a visitor, and that as a passing tourist ho is compelled to take hia in- ’ formation upon Commonwealth politics , from his present associates. Wo may therefore, overlook his unwarranted references to Australian politics and politicians.” Five hundred Chinese, at a meeting, [ protested against the shameful treatr monfc of their shipwrecked countrymen at 11ntraday Island, and decided to send a protest to Mr Da-akin and tho Chinese Ambassador in London. Port Darwin, Nov. 28.

The strandod E and A. steamer Australian has boon abandoned, and is breaking up.