GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2110, 19 June 1907, Page 4

GENERAL CABLES.

United Press Association—Copyright LONDON, June 17. It is now announced that Jackson lias definitely declined the captaincy of the English cricket team which visits Australia.' Of the champion trophies at the OUmpia Horse Show 16 went to England, two to the United States, and one to Holland, Ninety-one first pries were awarded to Engand, 14 to the United States," two to Canada, one to Holland, and one to Belgium. The War Office is investigating the reported disquieting defects of the steel casing of lyddite shells. Many thousands that have, been issued are being examined. At the final sitting of the Red Cross Society Conference, Turkey lodged strong objection to the Red Cross symbol, and pleaded for the substitution of a red crescent for relief work amongst Mussulmans. The conference refused the application. John Brown and Co., of Sheffield and Clydebank, are amalgamating with Harland and Wolff, Belfast. It will be the largest shipbuildng firm in the world, the wages bill totalling .£2,350,000 annually, At tennis, Brookes and Miss Sutton won the mixed doubles championship of Kent.

BERLIN, June 17. Herr Harden, in the newspaper Zukunft, declares the insinuatons aganist Prince Eulenburg were not aimed at the latter’s moral character, but intended to break through a ring which a clique of mystics attempted to form round him. The Crown Prince brought the facts to the Kaiser’s knowledge. The action of the Kaiser in banishing the incriminated persons from the Court has won the approbation of the public. PARIS, June 17,, News has been received that the competitors in the motor race from Pekin to Paris have reached Ivalgan. En route they traversed morasses, deep sand, and mountains. ST. PETERSBURG, June 17. While a Russian: torpedo boat was discharging a torpedo at Sevastopol, one struck a cutter in which the Com-mandcr-in-Chief was cruising. He narowly escaped drowning. The officers of the torpedo boat were arrested on a charge of attempted murder. ST. PETERSBURG, June 18. M. Purishkivitcli created a great uproar in the Duma on Saturday by declaring the Social Democrats ought to be sent to the scaffold. CAPETOWN, June 17. Several miners working at the Comet mine in the Rand were waylaid and sjamboked. In another instance a house, the inmates of which resumed work after striking, was blown up. A dynamite explosion killed the shift boss belonging to tho Comet mine, named Richards.

ROME, June 17. Earthquake shocks have been experienced round Stromboli, also in the vicinity of Gibraltar, travelling north to south.

LISBON, June IS. An explosion of dynamite attributed to the agency of dismissed workmen, wrecked a.building at Coviltra, killing 30 people. SYDNEY, June IS. In the round of the light-weight boxing championship Marks, a New Zealander, cleverly defeated Lane (Sydney) after a willing set-to. At tlio meeting of the Cricket Association, the Premier,. Mr. Carrutliers. was elected President. It was decided to unconditionally remove the disqualification on players. The s.s. Moeraki sailed for Wellington at 4.30 p.m. yesterday, taking 209 bap's of Vancouver and American ■".■mls transhipped from the Manuka. ADELAIDE, June 18.

The official estimate of the wheat harvest is that 1,681,982 acres yielded 17,145,796 bushels, a decrease of 2998 compared with last year.