GENERAL GABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 97, 3 May 1901, Page 2

GENERAL GABLES.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, May 1. The transport Ulstermore, with the AVestralian Sixth Contingent, has arrived at Durban. Mr Ritchie has issued a writ for sixteen thousand pounds against the London Nerth AVestorn Railway, for evading the AA r orkmen’s housing clause. Germany is trying to acquire a coaling station at Margurita Island, A r enezuela. Tho Queen Victoria memorial fund at Calcutta has reached thirty-one lakhs of rupees (over £200,000) Tho French press assert that the British aro fortifying Basidu, on Kishu Island, in the Persian Gulf, which is interpreted as a reply to Franco-Russian schemes in Persia. Mr Pierpont-Morgan, having purchased one million two hundred thousand ordinary pound shares for one million and three-quarters, now controls the Loylaud line’s Boston and Liverpool trade. Mr J. AA r . Ellennan is Chairman of Directors of tho Leyland, Liverpool, Mediterranean, Antwerp, and Montreal trade. The Miners’ Federation favors a general strike if the coal tax is approved by tho British Parliament. Tho House of Commons by 210 to 202 rejected a Bill of the London North-west-ern Railway Company, ns the Company heretofore failed to rc-housc a displaced working population. Air Ritchie, who did not support the rejection of tho Bill, offered to agree to the appointment of a Select Committee to considor the general question of ro-housing displaced working people in the future.