GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1963, 20 December 1906, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT London, Dec. 18. Sir Francis Hop wood, permanent Undor secretary to tho Board of Trade, succeeds Sir M. F. Ommanney as permanent Under secretary for tho colonies. Tho Atlantic Union entertained the Rhodes scholars at tho Criterion hotel. One of the West Ham guardians and the engineer have been arrested, making eight officials under trial on charges of fraud.

Berlin, Dec, 18. Professor Slaby, of Berlin, has buccessfully used wireless telephony over a distance of twenty.five miles.

Paris; Dec. 18. A French military airship travelled 30 miles against a head wind, carrying four passengers. It manoeuvres daily over Paris. ,

Berlin, Dec. 18. A reporter attached to the newspaper Local Anzeigor, disguised as a servant in livery, listened to the Kaiser’s conversation on a journey to Potsdam. When discovered he was deposited on a railway truck ten miles from the station.

Adelaide, Dec. 10. The Marine Board found the stranding of tho Scottish Minstrel was due to careless navigation.

Sydney, Dec. 19. Mr Taylor, in a letter to the press, replying to the Director of the Intelligence Department, says the latter admitted the letters in Taylor’s possession from the Agent-General’s Office were very misleading, and it was useless for him to expect to got a farm on the terms quoted in tho letters. The offers he received in Sydney differed materially from those of the AgentGeneral. He charged the Director with a number of mis-statements. Melbourne, Dec. 19. Russell, a Labor Socialist, now heads Tunnecliffe, another Labor Socialist, for third seat in the Senate. Other returns cannot alter the result. Tom Mann has been released after ■ five weeks in gaol. He was warmly welcomed at a great meeting of Labor Socialists.

The Council of the University has approved of a scheme of compulsory military training.