GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2120, 1 July 1907, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

LONDON, June 28. . The Kaiser anil Kaiserina visit Windsor, in November. Tho estate of the late Jas. Epps, cocoa manufacturer, has been proved at £700,000. - ...-..—-Negotiations are in progress for the formation of, a combination of the .steel trade 'to control 80 per cent, of the United-Kingdom’s output. - , ■ 'M The s.s. Lusitania has steamed from Clvdebank to Greenock. The Clyde has been dredged to a depth of 34 feet at high water. The Lu-sitania-drew. 29J feet. . The War Office has adopted a new pattern of bayonet similar to that of the Japanese armies, and also a new pattern of cavalry sword. In the, presence, of the Queen and Prince arid Princess of Wales and many notabilities, the King laid the foundation stone of the King Edward VII. Gallery, forming the.first portion of the British Museum exbuildings. • Charles Smith and a woman named Chicago May, have been committed for shooting and laming Eddie Tauef in in London. The parties • belong to. a notorious gang of Anglo-Amer,- . can thieves. Tauerin lately escaped from Devil’s Island, where ho was under sentence of ten years for forgery :n France. • _ ’ . Bains are threatening the British hay crop. The Board of Agriculture has is-sued-circulars calling farmers’ attention; to the advantages of ensilage. Brookes, Eaves, and Doust, Australians, qualified for the fourth round of the tennis championship. The King spent a long time watching the Gillies milking machine at the Lincoln show. He inquired closely, into the working, and said the invention ought to succeed. The Boyal Agricultural Society’s finances have been improved by the show; which was a great success. Baroness Eckhardstein is applying for a judicial separation on tlip ground Of her husband’s cruelty and misconduct.- A letter was read from ' hei father,-tile late Sir Blundell Maple, stating that he had paid the Baron’s debts of £60,000 within 18 months of the marriage, in addition to’allowances of a capital value of £71,000. Petitioner stated that she had undertaken obligations of £210,000 to moot the Baron’s liabilities. , ’* .' VIENNA, June 28. _ Advices from Brady, a town in Eastern Galicia, state that 14 Cossacks entered Austria arid plundered a house near Radzewiloff. They shot the owner, ' Einoch, and his wife dead; cut off the daughter’s hands, sand-mutilated two others. Austrian gendarmes captured .two-of the Cossacks. NEW YORK, _ June 28. , Owing to -a revised estimate of the i -.’wheat yield- placing the, Oklahama- ’ . Kansas,’ and Texas combined winter yield at 50,000,000 bushels, compared with 111,000,000 bushels last year, a sensational advance, has occurred in the American markets. Tremendous covering by shorts is taking place. September wheat jumped at Chicago from 945 to 100, and at New York from 100 Jto 106. Prices at the close reacted partially on realisatons. •. PRETORIA, June 28.

Iu receiving a strikers’ deputation, General Botha refused to promise a Compulsory Arbitration Bill, on the ground that as it could not be retrospective, therefore it would not affect the present strike. p SYDNEY, June 29. Glaffcop, tho defaulting Council clerk of Ashfield, arrested in New Zealand, lins been sentenced to 18 months’ imprisonment Received Juno 30, 4.30 p.m. ' LONDON, Juno 29. The Australian States Constitution and tho Colonial Statutes as Evidence Bills were read a second time in the House of Commons. The usual trooping of . colours at Whitehall have been held, and. at the ■Ministerial dinners Lord Elgin pro sided. The guests included the Agon ts-G‘eneral. Owing to the unsatisfactory, character of tho weaving trade, due to tho poor quality, scarcity, aud dearness of . yarn, operatives will be idle for a. fortnight in October by-an agreement among the cotton-spinners and manufacturers of north ;and north-east Lancashire. ■ Received July 1, 1.9 a.m. ; SYDNEY, June 30. Obituary: Peter Collison Close, prominently connected with the late land inquiries. '