GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2287, 4 September 1908, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

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LONDON, Sept. 2. ■ Tho Arthur Guinness Company, Ltd., have given shareholders a bonus of 100 per cent, out of reserves by the allotment of 2,500,000 new shares at £1 each. Mr. Kidston attended a reunion of 240 schoolfellows at Falkirk, including the Provost. Tho meeting presented Mr. Kidston with a portrait of his old schoolmaster.

(Received Sept. 3, 11 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 3. Reuter’s Pekin correspondent says that an edict has been issued outlining a constitution, and providing for tho ultimate summoning of Parliament.

(Itecoived Sept. 3, 11 p.m.) BERLIN, Sept. 3. The “Vossiche Zoitung” declares that the German Minister at Pekin has been commissioned by the Legation to convey to the Dalai Llama the Kaiser’s portrait. NEW YORK, Sept. 2.

A yacht capsized during a squall at Penobscot Ray, Maine. Six women and one man were drowned. The miners’ strike at Alabama has collapsed, and the majority of the mines rc-opcn as non-union concerns.

. OTTAWA, Sept. 2. . The Canadian Customs for five months have decreased by £1,500,000 sterling. MELBOURNE, Sept. 3.

The Federal Treasurer estimates the revenue for the current year of £500,000 below that of last year. The Victorian and New South Wales Governments accepted the teiulei of the Eastern and Australian Steamship Co. to extend the present service from Hong Kong to Shanghai, with a monthly trip between Melbourne and Hong Kong,'- paying a subsidy of £3900 per annum. Floods have occurred in the WurTnambool district. ADELAIDE, Sept, 3. Floods arc reported from various districts, the highest for years. PERTH, Sept. 3. Oki, the Japanese who shot Shaw, told the police that Shaw had his money. He feared Shaw was going to leave him, and got mad, and shot Shaw,