GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 1969, 3 January 1907, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

Press Association—('opyrightJ. LONDON, J«A' -1. The British revenue for the December (juarter was .185,00. >.t)OU. Customs contributed .08,759,000, ex, isi l Lit),85)1,000, stumps 02. i 2'LOOO. Copper, spot Jos.\, three months 1061. Till, spot 190;;, three months 19-1 i. Lead, ID’. Obituary ; Countess Clancarty, from cancer. OTTAWA, Jan. L Canada expects a quarter oi a million immigrants during Hie present year. Twenty-live farmers Brnm fclio north-west provinces will visit Britain, address meetings, and relate their experiences. PEKIN, Jan.yi. Resenting the exclusion <-.• viiiuose iroiu America, aia ' !; h . -r-Vrt bl Cantonese resolved to revive U*<Jf boycott of American goons and di’Ny.aaa Chinese labourers iro.-a pro: ■'(, . ■ to assist in tlic construction ol tn;.• tnitu, j and to petition tho Viceroy to ask I the Government to negotiate with America lor the modiiicauon of the exclusion laws. It was also decided to placard tho resolutions throughout China.

PARIS, Jail. 1. Many French Communes are askng nominal rents for tiie priests’ nunses. In one instance only one rune per annum was asked.

The French bishops have unanimously decided that ail contributions of the faithful must he handed to the bishops, who alone will distribute, and are forbidding parishioners to furnish priests or curates with stipends. The decision causes irritation. JOHANNESBURG, Jan. 1. Mr. J. Smuts, the Boer leaner, declares that no Chinese must lie repatriated from the Rand until substitutes are found. Sir John Fraser, of Bloemfontein, has signed the constitutional party’s manifesto, demanding equality of white races, and just and fair treatment of the natives, who should bo uuder local, not Imperial, -control, and the encouragement of federation and immigration. , r NEW-YORK, Jan. 1. Mr. Rockefeller has made a New .car s gift to Chicago University of three million dollars. His total benefactions amount to four million pounds sterling.

TEHERAN, Jan. 1. Hie Assembly at Teheran objected to tlic composition of the Senate. Negotiations with reference to a new constitution have been opened with the. Cabinet.

MELBOURNE, Jan. 2. liic enforcement of the provisions ot the Gaming Act, prohibiting the making of wagers between bookmakers and women, was responsible for some comical incidents at the Flemnigton races. Alany feminine punteis, however, managed to get round the law by betting through male friends.

file master builders are makim* arrangements to resume work to-Inor-row. Only those willing to work the forty-pight hours will be engaged. 'PI p i- Jan. 2. ino English swimmer, Billiiii'ton has arrived.