GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 168, 27 July 1901, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright

London, July 26. Joseph Stoddurt has been sentenced to three months’ imprisonment', and lined £SO, for advertising Du- v in Holland.

In the House of Commons, Lord Cratibournc stated that no date had been Axed tor the evacuation of Shanghai. There was no reason to think that the Powers concerned desired the occupation to bo permanent.

In the House of Lords the Finance Bill was read a third time. In tho House of Commons Lord Latis, downs stated that Prince George of Crete had acceded to the unanimous request of the Powers to remain in office another tsrrn.

Mr llrodriek, in the course of the donate on the Army Hill, said that three army corps, with devolution of financial powers and execution of military works, would be created at the end of tho year at vldorshot, Salisbury Plain, and Ireland. The cases of sickness on the Ormuz did not prove to be bubonic plague as was at first foared.

New York, July 20. A moderate estimate of the wheat yield in Manitoba and the north-western provinces is fifty million bushels. Schley enquiry opens on September 12th.

Sydney, July 26. The Presbyterian General Assembly lias adopted a resolution, protesting against any alteration of the King’s Coronation Oath such as would endanger the Protestant succession.

Eleven men, principals in the recent boxing contest, have been charged with being concerned in the death of Otto Cribb. They were remanded on bail, pending further police enquiries.

At the A.J.S. Bank annual meeting it was shown that the profits for the past six months wore £100,057. After paying interest on deposit stock, a surplus of £18,465 remained ; £II,OOO was applied to special station accounts, and the balance added to the surplus. Tho report stated that the Bank’s New Mouth Wales station properties, owing to the disasl rotts drought, had given no returns during the half-year. A further repayment of deposit stock will bo made in January next.

Newcastle, July 20. The Indutia, from Lyttelton. Melbourne, July 20.

The Senate, on the motion of Mr Keating, of Tasmania, appointed a Select Committee to enquire into the question of improving steamship communication between Tasmania and Australia. It was urged that tho isolated position of Tasmania prevented that colony realising the full benefit of Federal Union without better means of communication. It was suggested that that there bo established a fast line of steamers owned by tho Commonwealth, convertible into armoured cruisers capable of defending the coast.