GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 252, 1 November 1901, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

By Telegraph —Press Association—Copyrigh

London, Oct. 30. The King of Italy lias agreed to arbitrate in the Guiana boundary diilieulty. St. Petersburg. Oct. 30. The chief enibe. :der m the Nijui Novgorod frauds has been sentenced to twelve months’ imprisonment in a fortress. Paris, Oct. 30. The French dockers’ proposal to boycott British commerce, in view of compelling a tirmiuaiion of the war, has turned out a ha.- o. The dockers of Antwerp and U: i.dnirg and the merchants in Holland refused to co-operate. 'The F.. null loan issued as security for the Chinese indemnity covers the cost of the China expedition, and enables three million sterling to be paid to French merchants and missionaries who were victims of the Uo.xers. y Millerand, Minister of Commerce, I has introduced a Hill withdrawing boun- ! tics to sailing vessels in favor of steamers. I The bounty is on French-built vessels, : 277 francs per ton, but oil foreign-built | ones it is smaller. Sydney, Oct. 31. I The Legislative Council struck out a | provision in the Arbitration Hill empower- ! ing the Court to direct that employers | should give unionists preference in cmj ploymcnL Melbourne, Oct. 31. 1 Six men were injured, three seriously, iby the collapse of a scalTolding at ! Graham. Adelaide, Oct. 31. j The exports of breudstutl’s for the nine mouths amounted to over 220,000 tons. ! There are indications that stocks will be j reduced to a minimum before the end of j the vear.