GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2121, 2 July 1907, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

United Press Association— Copyright LONDON, June 30. The New Zealand bowlers boa White Valp Club, Glasgow, by 45 to

36 Edgo, on a6O horse-power Napier 1 machmo, motored 1581 miles m 24 ; h °ln ß tho tonnis tournament Brookes boat Adams in the fifth rj?und by sots to love; Evans beat Essombl by 3 sets to 2. Brooks and Wilciing easily defeated Kinzei and Wesslcy in the second round of tfa e doubles. The body of . Lieutenant Mark Leako, the missing balloonist, has been discovered 111 the sea a nu east of Bridport. , Miss Clara Butt and Mr. Konealy Rumford, hor husband, wore accordol an enthusiastic reception at a farewell concert at the Albert Hal . Her Majesty the Queen wrote regretting she was unable to be present, and wishing the singer success on her Australasian tour. ' Two balloonists who started, from Dunkirk have been drowned, in tne English Channel. Antimony, good 5 per cent ore, is quoted at £8 10s a ton. Received July 1, 11.27 p.m. LONDON, July 1. Mr. E. G. Soares moves an amendment! to Mr. Lyttelton’s resolutions, that the i>ermanent unity of the Empire will nob be secured through a system of preferential duties of food. The King, accompanied by the Queen and the Prince of Wales, opens to-day at the Union Jack Club, Waterloo road, a memorial to the soldiers and sailors killed in the Boer war. , _ - _

BUENOS AYRES, June 30. Fifteen thousand pounds sterling worth of meat aboard the steamer Manchester City has been boiled tor tallow owing to having sustained damago by a fire on the vessel. ST. PETERSBURG, Juno 30. AVhile political prisoners were exercising' in a yard in a prison _at Sevastopol, a bomb destroyed the wall. Twenty political prisoners escaped after killing a sentinel. ADELAIDE, July I. The year’s revenue was £3,195,000, an increase of £389,000 on the- previous year, exceeding the estimate by £330,000, and giving a surplus ol £300,000. SYDNEY, July 1. The railway revenue increased £519,000 compared with last year. The amount returned by the Commonwealth increased £279,100. A conference will be held to-day of steam colliery owners, the Coal Stevedores’ Association, and the Coal Lumpers’ Union, to discuss the strike.

The number of marriages in New South W ales last year totalled 11,551. the highest in twenty years excepting in 1901. The deaths totalled 14,975, being 12 per cent below the mean rate for the last ten years, and the lowest on record. Parliament will be opened to-mor-row. Speaking at a mass meeting of lumpers the president declared a sixpenny telegram from the Lumpers’ Executive would now be sufficient to paralvse all Australian trade.

Received July 1, 11.32 p.m. SYDNEY, July l.\ A conference of coal-trimmers settled preliminaries and adjourned until to-morrow.' The Press was excluded. Received JuK T, 11.40 p.m. SYDNEY, July 1. At the sheep sales 66 Leicester rams from Benson’s, Dunedin, ranged from £3 13s 6d to £3 18s 9d. - MELBOURNE, July 1. The Customs excise contributed to the Federal revenue £9,649,000, ail increase of £649,000; Post Office, £3,127,600, an increase of £303,000. The amounts returned to the States totalled £7,040,000, N.S.W. receiving £3,022,000; Victoria, £2,19H,v00; Queensland, £942,000; South Australia, £645,000; Western Australia, £780,000; arid Tasmania, £262,000, all being considerably above the estimates. Sir John Forrest said the Federal revenue for the year was £12,832,000, which was £905,000 in excess of the estimate, and £952,000 above the previous year. The expenditure was £4,896,000, which was £34,000 below the estimate. •