GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 1970, 4 January 1907, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

Press Association—Copyright. LONDON, January 2. A bottle drifted ashore at Ciistleroeli Londonderry, and was found lo oontiiii an authentic document, tlie only new of tho fate of the liner Huronion, whicl disappeared in a terrible gale in tin Atlantic in 1902. Tne document declared that tho liner was top heavy and was rapidly sinking. Hyde lifeboat capsized in a gale, and two men were drowned. Obituary: Mrs Josophino Butler, tho leader of tho agitation for tho abolition of tho Contagious 1 Leases Act. Gourlny, tho driver of the wrecked Scotch train, lias boon remanded on a charge of homicide. When charged with drunkenness he denied that ho was intoxicated. BELGRADE, January 2. It is now known that ton siudcnts were killed and twelve wounded in the recent disturbances at Belgrade. Tho conspirators recently flocked into the theatre, where they conferred. MOROCCO, January 2. Ben Mansour, Raisuli’s Khalila at I’angior, who lately submitted and led -lie Sultan’s troops to tho vicinity of ’’mat, captured liaisuii’s lvaid. The attcr will bo charged with soiling State ands.

CALCUTTA, January 2. | The Ameer of Afghanistan was wcl- 1 corned on the African frontier en route. He confers with Lord Kitchener. , SYDaEY, January 3. Towns and Durnan have signed a-.ti 1 cles to row for the championship on March 2nd. (. abinct to-day considers the appointment of Railway Commissioners. ; Bush fires in AVagga districts destroyed big areas of grass and quantities of ■ bagged and standing wheat. 1 MELBOURNE, January 3. Mr Langdon has accepted the port- 1 folio of Chief Secretary to tho Minister j 1 for Labor in tho State Ministry. j i The Common wealth Customs and a excise revenue for the six months was t ±4,837,000, an increase of a. 300,000. } Mildura is no longer a prohibition sot- 11 tlement. Tho first license came into ' , s . operation at the beginning of the year. ! "J On the first day there were more arrests ’ for drunkenness than during tho whole | \ of last year. 1 ‘ ADELAIDE, January 3. ; There is a strike in tbo budding trade. The employers refused tho men’s demands for an increase of a shilling * a day. Government works are Lot ' afieettd. | ~, PERTH, January 3. tl The output of gold last year was in 1,794,545 ounces, valued at ±.,693,000, 1 tc the lowest for some years. j ii The public analyst reports that largo 1 C! quantities of foods examined during tbo 1 M year were found to be bad or inferior- , tr lie declares Westralia is made the dump- ’ l ing ground of bad butter from the Eas- j"i tern States, H N

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tJ s] Press Association. 11 AUCKLAND, last night. 1 Obituary: John 'Kirkwood, aged OS, ]tr for many years .a wine and spirit mer- j n chant, largely interested in horse raping. ! Sl Tho amount of Customs duties col- j j' 1 lected last quarter was ,£191,477, which ] l was £25,000 above the corresponding j period of 1905, and constitutes ,a record j ( | for Auckland. The gold duties for the!]; stimo period totalled £9323, an iucrcaso j (*: of £2454- oi NEW PLYMOUTH, last night, w For tho month ended December 31st, ft tho butter and cheese exported from tho 1 it breakwater totalled 43,453 packages and ' a: 2097 cases respectively, as against 27,527 ! O' packages and 719 cases fur December, I 111 1905, the values being £105,615 and ft A 7828, compared with £PS 376 and ?• £2250. There were no bankruptcies in New t c Plymouth during 1906, Of fix bank- g< ruptcies in the country districts, the lia- oi bilities totallerf only £B4O. oi

HASTINGS, last ’light. Mi- G. P. Donnelly, owner of To Uira, the winner of the Ngatarawa Hack Pace at the races yestorday, considering that a protest lodged by his trainer was trivial, instructed the secretary of the

club to pay the stakes to the owner of Soultitc, whicll won, but was disqualified owing to the rider not including his breastplate when weighing-io. CHRISTCHURCH, last night. The Chess Congress resumed play this morning witji the clovepth round, t hipf interest centred in the meeting-of Viner (Australia) and R. J. Barnes (New Zealand). The end of tho game left Viner unbeaten, Crackenthorpe beat Davies after a stiff game, Viner beat Bassett on the ‘27th move, Edwards beat Arohdeacon Gould on the 32nd move. The Educational Conference sat in committee all the morning. The committee set up for the purpose of considering how best to devise systematic promotion on equitable iincs submitted a report, which was discussed at length till the luncheon adjournment.