GENERAL CABLES

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 1974, 9 January 1907, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES

Press Association—Copyright. LONDON,January 7

The reported cession of Tahiti is Oi cially contradicted. Obituary : David Murray, merchant, formerly a politician in Adelaide, South Australia, and W. W. Head, tho Surrey cricketer. Lord Sclhy and Sir Ernest Satow have been appointed members of tho permanent International Court of Arbitration at tho Hague. An invention by Mr A. Austin, a Victorian, which, it is understood, enables guns to bo sighted in tho roughest weather, has been submitted to tho War Office.

The Daily Mail, commenting on tho official list of tlic Channel, Atlantic, and Mediterranean ilccts, and the cruiser squadrons after the Lagos inanmuvres in March next, remarks that the reduction in tho lighting forco immediately available in tho event of an outbreak of war is nearly 25 per cent. The Times states that public.-opinion in Japan is becoming quieter, and it is not believed that tho San Francisco dffiiculty is sufficient to disturb tho traditional friendship with the United States. Japan's foreign trade in 1900 amounted to X 84,000,000. Tho exports exceeded the imports. The lluchoss of Cumberland, who was taken suddenly ill at Goundcn, has undergone a successful operation. COLOMBO, January 7.

Three hours after tho seismograph at Laibach had recorded a great submarine disturbance on Friday, tremendous tidal waves visited tho soutliorn coast of Ceylon, the phenomena being similar to those following the Krakatoa eruption. BERLIN, January 7. Eighteen navvies at Bingen aro still buried, and their position is hopeless. NEW YORK, January 7. sdTho Inter-Stato Commerce Coinmis-

on in the course of an inquiry at New Y’ork into railway matters, elicited that the unlimited power of Mr E H. Harriman, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Northern Securities Company, enabled him to purchase twenty millions sterling of stock of other railways, and that ho used enormous funds as he liked Tho same Commission, in its enquiries at Washington as to railway disasters, obtained' evidence which showed inefficient management and recklessness on tho part of employees. One witness worked sixty hours without sleep, and

those cases in which men worked 24 hours continuously were not uncommon. Congress is likely to limit the hours of continuous labor to sixteen.

Tho Superior Court of California upheld tho Williamsburg City Insurance Company’s contention that they wero not liable for losses attributable to the earthquake. Mexican advices report that all on board the City of Panama, wrecked off Pescadoro, are safe. . BANGKOK, January 7.

A fire in tho Chinese quarter of Bangkok did damage to the extent of £583, 333. SYDNEY, January 8.

A white lead tin, filled with stones, powder, and dynamite, with a fuse and detonator attached, was found under a private residence in Mossman Bay. No attempt was mado to explode it. Tho police view the matter seriously. It bas transpired that an attempt was mado on Saturday night to rob tho purser’s safe of the Sierra, containing one thousand sovereigns. Nothing was obtained

The steamer Adelaide has been pur chased by a Eussian firm, and will sad for Vladivostock with frozen meat. was found that a quantity of emery pow der had been thrown amongst the bearings of the vessel, and sho has been detained for overhaul. .Letters received from artisans who rushed from Australia to Ban Francisco in search of work reveal deplorable conditions of the labor market. They warn others against comiDg. ADELAIDE, January 8. The Australian Association for tho Advancement of Science has opened. Dr. Howitt is president.