GENERAL CABLES

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1955, 11 December 1906, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES

PRKSS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT London, Doc. 9. Mr Collins, on bolralf of tho Fodoral Government, has handed Iho Lord Mayor ,625,000 sterling, voted towards the Ciueon Victoria memorial.

Mr Lyttelton, speaking at Edinburgh, expressed great misgivings in regard to . self-govoinmont of tho Transvaal and Orangia. A federation of the States and settlement of British farmers ought to precede self Government.

Paris, Doc. 9. M. Henri R r chofort was lined £BOO on a charge of defaming Madame Sy veton in conn< ction with the death of her husband, who croated a sensation in tho latter part of last year by striking General Andro on tho floor of tho Chamber of Deputies.

Tokio, Dec. 9. The Japanese are spending seven and a-half million pounds sterling, spread over seven years, in increases in the navy.

St. Petersburg, Dec 9. The Czar has given audience to Count Do Witte. The seamen’s strike at Odessa has collapsed.

Capetown, Dec. 9.

Dr Jameson advocates a South African federation on tho Canadian model.

Morocco, Dec. 9. Vice-Admiral Touchaid, with three warships, is at Tangier. Adelaido, Dec. 10.

About five hundred men are affectod by the wharf laborers’ strike at Porte Pirie, where the men demand eight hours a day, with payment of half-a-crown an hour for ordinary work, and 3s 3d for wheat-carrying. The employers offer eight hours and Is 3d an hour after the first two bouts, but refuse to pay tho smoke oh.

Sydnoy, Dec. 10.

The heat wave continues unabated in the interior. Very high temperatures are recorded.

Melbourne, Dec. 10,

Mr Bent states he has instructed the Income Tax Commissioner to demand double duty and interest from the Federal Ministers and public servants who in the past have refused to pay income tax, as great expense was incurred in fighting the case.