GERERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1946, 30 November 1906, Page 4

GERERAL CABLES.

I‘KKSS ASSOCIATION —00CYltlU JIT London, Nov. 28. _ Tho Archbishop of Canterbury is suffering from inlluon/.i, and has oai - collod a wo oil’s engagements Mootings have been hold at Manchester, Sundovlcnd, Yarrow, and otliOT boroughs protesting ugninat tlio Congo atrocities. Two stokers have boon aontoncod to eighteen months’ and six months' im pridouinont- iu connection with the Portsmouth outbreak.

Tho Committee of Privileges of the House of Lords unanimously rejected Lord Mowbray’s claim to tho .Earldom of Norfolk.

King Edward and (Eicon Alexandra liavo givon ouo hundred guiuoas each to Treloar’a Institution for Cripples. Speakers at tlio Liverpool Cluunbor of Comiuorco mooting clonouncod tho Australian Industries Preservation Act as unspoalcably pornioious, without a parallel, and urged tho Xing to veto

Mr John Burns, conversing with Mr Wilhelm Boumor, a Natioziul Liboral member of the Lioichstag, who is visiting Britain, avowed lnmself a Social Democrat in tho Continental sense, bnt State Socialist. Ho bcliovod Britain would roach tho same goal aa tho Continental democracy with the aid of trade unions.

One hundred and twentydive Oer-< man gipsies havo nailed from Hull for Hamburg Tho Uiatrossod Eoroignors' Society paid tlioir faros.

Morocco, Nov. 28

The Sultan's fc: oops tint! Ilaisulu’s irregulars repelled tui attack by a number of the Aughora tribe on the house of Mr Walter Harris, the Timos’ correspondent, near Tangier. Capetown, Nov. ‘2B. Ferreira and throe others have born | remanded to Upingtonfor murder and attempted murder of a policeman at Abeli. They aro also charged with robberies and violence. Some of Ferreira’s followers aro charged with attempted murder at Vandorwo. Tho Victoria Falls Power Company, with sin millions of Anglo-German capital under British control, to bring electricity to the Band, will shortly issue six hundred and lifty thousand pounds worth of proforenco shares at b'.x por cent

Vienna, Nov. 28

In order to proven, laborers striking, the Agricultural Association in tho B«.kos country, Hungary, threatens to import fifteen thousand Chinese.

Bella, Nov. 28

A Bulgarian band sacked and burned two Servian Villages iu tho vilayet ox Uskub, killing fourteen, chiclly women and children. Now York, JNov. 28. President Roosevelt ha 3 returned to Washington.

Pydnoy, Nov. 29. Grass tires are still raging in the V? cat. In some parts the flames have been stemmed fur the present by the wind changing to an opposite direc» tion.

Melbourne, Nov. 29,

The Now South Wales bowling team were defeated by ttie Victorians easily in tho first two or three games. Brisba.no, Nov. 20.

Owing to an outbreak oi ! diphtheria tho Metropolitan State schools close to-morrow for seven weeks.

Perth, Nov. 29.

Two disguised men bound the night watchman at the Golden Arrow mine and stole throe hundred pounds’ worth of gold from tho battery plates.