GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1411, 23 March 1905, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

FRENCH liN READINESS.,

I By Electric Telegraph—Per Press I Association—Copyright. I - , LONDON, March 21. A mobile French column, eighteen hundred strong,. hasi-encamped. one hundred kilometres within Moroccan territory nearest the Algerian port | of Elarich-a. THE BRITISH FJ-EET. ‘The Admiralty has allotted destroyers to the Atlantic and Mediterranean fleets and China station, with destroyers and torpedo-boats in roservo.

A HAPPY PRINCE. BERLIN, March 21. Tne German Crown Prince will fee married at Berlin os June 6th. A FIGHTING PEOPLE. SOFIA, March 21.

Anxiety prevails at Sofia owing to the Turks and Greeks combining against tho Bulgarians and Macedonians.,

GRASSHOPPER. PLAGUE. BRISBANE, March 22./ •The grasshopper plague is causing much, damage to the crops.

A MELBOURNE LOAN. MELBOURNE, March .32

| The sum- oi £153,000 was uubscribled lor the £IOO,OOO Savings Bank j3l per cent, loan, at a minimum of I £O6 ,2s Gd. I OUTBREAK OF ANTHRAX. MELBOURNE, March 22. An outbreak of anthrax has occurred at Penahurst.

LABOR LEGISLATION. A FULL CiOURT DECISION

I By Eleotrlc Telegraph—Per Press 1 Association—Copyright. SYDNEY, March 22. I The Full Court, on- an appeal, decided that tint Arbitration C|o,urb had no power to stipulate in an award that, employers requiring labor should give notice to the employers’ union, or that non-unionists obtaining employment should he compelled to join the unio-n within fourteen days. The Court- held that thig was am attempt to strain the Act against tlie liberty.'.of the subject, am'di, to make such a provision the Arbitration Court exceeds its juris-diotioin The ■decision will have a far-reaching effect.

The Chief Justice expressed the opinion that it would be a good thing if the law,-hero was the same as in England in regard to compensation of working people injured at their employment. It would not bo found to work harshly "to the large employers because they took care to insure their employees.