GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1960, 17 December 1906, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

TRUSS ASSOCIATION— COPYRIGHT London, Dec. 14 The Commissioners ’ who inquired info tho Worcester election hold the constituency was not corrupt, though some 505 needy loafers, with a considerable number of working men, woro always billing to soli their votes for drink or mmey. Fivo Manchester snllrug'ttos woro arrostod in tlio products nt tho House of Co id m (ns for persisting in an attempted demonstration. A somowhat disorderly crowd of working mon and women from Battersea and tho East End were persuaded to disporso Besides tho tripavtivo treaty prosorving Abyssinia’s integrity, Britain, France, aiul Italy have signed an agreement regulating tho entrauco of arms and ammunition into their rospectivo East African possessions Tho Workmen’s Compensation Bill passed third reading in the House of Commons amid cheers

Tho Government propose to introduce in 1907 a Bill imposing a test on tho financial solvency of insurance companies undertaking business in connection with the Employers Liability Act. The suffragettes, including Augusta McDougall, of New Sonth Wales, have gone to gaol for a fortnight, refusing to pay the fine of 20s Mr Lloyd George, replying to a deputation protesting against the gigantic railway monopoly, intimated that the Government would make

inquiry into tho Continental and American railways, with a view to early legislation on tho subject.

The House of Lords reversed the

judgment of tho Court of Appoal in the West Biding case, holding it is the duty of tho local authorities under the Act of 1902 to pay for religious instruction in non provided as well as in provided schools.

The Labor members of tho House of Commons resolved that the House of Lords’ amendments to the Trades Disputes Bill aro totally unacceptable. The London and Middlesex hospital has placed 20 cancer cases under trypsin treatment, owing to a New York doctor claiming ho had made two cures with this agent.

The executors of the estate of the late Mr Wynan, an American millionaire who was domiciled in England at the time of his death, are taking legal proceedings to recover the sum of £13,000, the duty paid to the Crown on £1,000,000 worth of property outside the United Kingdom. Percival, who was admitted to bail pending his return to Melbourne, appeals against the extradition decision. His present employer has offered to pay the diffirence between the amount fie is alleged to fiave embezzled and the amount Percival repaid to Trinity College.

Dr Clifford and a number of Nonconformist ministers have been fined for the eleventh time at Paddington for passive resistance to the education rate.

r fhe School Children’s Meals Bill was read a third time in the House of Commons. It authorises the London County Council to establish restaurants for childrou at tho ratepayers’ expense. The Government resisted an amendment limiting tho relief to necessitous children, considering that tho cost of such meals to othor than Ihe poor could bo recovered from the naronts.

Madrid, Pec. 14. Tho Marquis Armijo, tho new Spanish Premier, follows tho anticlerical policy in the matter of religious associations a 3 foreshadowed by his predecessor, Sonor Moret, in July, while ma : ntainiDg a conciliatory tone in relations with the Vatican.

Stockholm, Dec. 14. King Oscar is suffering from heart affection, and his condition is regarded as critical.

Washington, Tec. 14. President Koosevelt has withdranw hie simplified spelling. Sydney, Dec. 15. From a return prepared by the Government, four companies are found to hold absolute leases of 12,965,543 acres, and by way of mortgage 6 838,089 acres. Th New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company is one of the companies include! in the report. It holds absolutely 026,698 acres, and by way of mortgage- 62b’ 848 acres.

The steamer Inveric, from Vancouver, brought a record cargo of timber, 31 million feet.

Perth, Dec. 15. Parliament has prorogued. Hobart, Dec. 15. Adams' timber yard at Launceston was destroyed by fire. The damage amounts to £BOOO.