GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 1971, 5 January 1907, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

Press Association—Copyright. LONDON, January 3. Tho crew of tho Dydoslifcboat drifted throughout the nighLjholding on to lifelines, and snfl'ered terribly.

Tho Rugby Union ‘.Committee have recommended tho New Sou'll Wales team not to visit the United Kingdom noxt season, hut liopo. to encourage a visit the following season. ... Tho Times declared th'.u nothing short of universal military service the Continental model would justify the construction of the proposed Channel tunnel. Ai'-. : Tho Brilannia’s South Australian eggs averaged a dozen for fertile to Is Id ''i'cvunfertilo. Tho average was reduced by a con shier "U able number having a fr ijty flavor, ap patently due to their carriage to Adi laido in eases previously used for lemons. Tho body of tho late Baroness Burdel t-Coutts is lying in state at her Stratton street residence.

The damago by the Portsmouth liro is estimated at a quarter of a million sterling.

TEHERAN, January 3. Tho Assembly at Teheran have accepted tho revised constitution.

CAPETOWN, January 3. Laymen, mcs'ly Republicans, mado the annual declaration under the French separation law in most of the parishes, thus placing the clergy in a dilemma, inasmuch as the supplementary law vesls the tenancy of tlio church in tlia priest named' in such declaration, and tho priest must accept it at the hands of tbo civil authorities. Tho clericals are unwilling to go to that extent, and recognise the nation’s supremacy. BUENOS AYRES, -Tanuary 3. The Police at Pcrgamino, Argentina, in dispersing a demonstration against municipal taxes, killed six and wounded seventeen people.

BERLIN, January 3. Chili has sold to a German firm 2COO Mannlicher rifles and cartridges for mountain batteries, for a quarter of a million pounds. It is supposed they are intended for the Turkish Government.

BUDA PESTH, January 3, Nicholas Szmere, a sportsman, lost £2700 at cards in a club at Buda Pesth at one sitting. BUCHAREST, January 3. Wolves on the Roumanian frontier devoured a clergyman and his servant whilst sleighing. Many others were attacked and injured. MELBOURNE, January 4. The pumping out of the steamer Irish Monarch is proceeding. SYDNEY, January 4. Tho Barrier exports of lead, silver, and zinc for the past year are valued at £2,075,000. ADELAIDE, Jan. 4, The demands of the strikers in regai d to a number of minor jobs have been conceded, and they have resumed work. The. State’s exports for the past year increased by over two million, and the imports by J 800,000. The trade of the colony totalled nineteen millions, an increase of three millions, the direct oversea trade amounting to nearly ton millions.