GENERAL CABLES

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1948, 3 December 1906, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES

I’ItKSS ASSOCIATION— OOI’YBIGHT London, Nov. 90. Mr Hamrifr’a estate is valued at £1,.‘>70,000. Tho Hospital Sunday fund recoivos £600,060. The Nobel prize for physics has been awnrdod to Professor J. J. Thomson, of Cambridge Frederick Henry Wuolfries, alias Dare, was sentenced to oight months’ imprisonment at Liverpool Asmzos for libelling Mr Seymour-Hicks, the actor author.

Mr John Morloy, Secretary for India, has ordered a reduction of the area of land licensed for poppy cultivation in India.

New York, Nov 30,

Negro employees aud negro passen gers at the Lynchburg accident robbed the dead and dyiiig. Capetown, Nov. 30.

Colonel Crewe, Colonial Secretary at the Cape, in a speech at Somerset East, announced that tho South African Defence Conference would be held in the Trausvaal in January noxt. It will consider unification of tho forces of the various colonies for the use of any of them in the event of trouble.

Madrid, Nov. 30.

The new Spanish Cabiuet consists of Senor Moret, Premier ; Sencr Oabelhrno, Minister for Foreign affairs; and Count Eomanones, Minister for Justice.

St. Petersburg, Nov 30. The Prize Court at Libau decided in favor of the owners of the American steamer Oldhtmic, captured on the voyage to Hong Kong with a cargo of petroleum.

Adelaide, Dec. 1. The new Parliament has opened. Sir Jeukin Coles was re-elected Speaker. The franchise has first place in the Government’s programme.

Melbourne, Dec. 1

At tennis Wilding beat Heath, and the championship rests between tho New Zealander and Brookes. A conference of statisticians has opened. Mr Manger, in welcoming the delegates on behalf of the Federal Government, said he was specially pleased to see New Zealand represented. It was of the utmost importance that the relationships between that colony and the Commonwealth should be of a most cordial character, and that their statistical methods should be uniform as far as possible.