GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 1965, 28 December 1906, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

LONDON. !>.■(•. 2:i. The year lias lict'ii a record in ship building on Uic Clyde, ivhorn .‘172 res sels vvei'e latiiielietl, totalling s!'S,(i!)o tons. Owing to Mr. isiieelia n’s impulsion anil 1 1 1 e stoppage of his l!alliaiilenlary salary, lie seeks re-eleelion for Cork. .Mr William O'llrien, in supporting him, tlenoiinees the despotism of the Irish party whose control of Australian fniuls is the beginning and end of the whole trouble. .Mr. O’J’rieu descril eil them as a hand over the head of the Irish repres'iutnlivcs to terrify and enslave I hem. Many thousand tons of meat ieti'inio'.l fioni the war stores in South Africa have heeii destioyed as rotten, also a»,000 tins of nie.it (ssmiee, which, through prolonged keejihvg, has become iir.juegnuted with tin and is poisonous.

A prominent appeal for .£SOO Inwards a New Guinea Cottage Hospi tal Ims been signed by Louis Beau champ, Tennyson, and others. ST PETERSBURG, Dee. 23. Thirteen executions , have taken place at Riga, and seven nt Mi ban in cue day.

The acquittal of a majority of the Niebogatolf’s ollieers alter enduring ignominy am! privation is considered at St. Petersburg as tardy justice. The earliest accounts stating the petty officers and crew mutinied, compelling surrender, are disproved.

BERLIN, December 26. Prince Billow’s overtures to tin's Liberals are considered too vague l.y Dr. Barth, who predicts a long period of constitutional crisis leading to a deep slough of reaction, or Hie establishment of real modern constitutionalism. MELBOURNE, yesterday. 51 r. Playford formally resigns next, week, Mr. Idea kin temporarily administers the Defence Department. LAUNCESTON, yesfei day. The Commonwealth rifle match was won by Queensland with a score of 1529. New South Wales scored loi7, South Australia 1487, Tasmania 1486, and Victoria 1485. Westralia was unroproented.