GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1716, 5 April 1906, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

By telegraph, Pres* Ana’n, Copyright London, April 8.

Tho report of the Australian and Now Zoaland Mortgago Company shows a loss of ,£7383, making a total debit of £71,851. which is carried forward.

Betting on tho intor-Univorsity boal race is live to four on Cambridge.

South Africa won tho fifth test match against Warner’s team by an innings and 1G runs. Mass meetings havo boon organised in the East End, demanding effective administration of the Aliens Act, and protesting against Mr Gladstone's attitude.

Advices from Groytown state that the chief Bambasta, who was doposod, fled with his followers, and returned and murdered his uncle, who was recently appointed regent of tho tribe. Lord Linlithgow is progressing favorably.

Bruascls, April 3,

Tho authorities at Antwerp aro alarmed at the inllux of emigrants suffering from contagious diseases awaiting a cure, prior to sailing for America.

Madrid, April 3, Sir A. Nicholson introduced a reso" lution at Algeciras in favor of the abolition of slavery. Tho Moors retorted that the subject was not on the programme.

Capetown, April 3. Merchants at Johannesburg have issued an appeal to British workmen to induce the Government not to interfere with Chinese, npon whose retention the prosperity of the Rand largely depends.

Pietermaritzburg, April 3. The Supreme Court of Natal reserved judgment in the Willis appeal Sydnay, April 4.

A majority of the associated colliery owners of Newcastle and Maitland districts have decided to raise the selling price of coal to 9s per ton from the first of the present month. The decision does not apply to existing contracts. It involves an increase of

-Id in the hewing rate. At the annual meeting of tho Rugby Association the reports showed the debit for the year was ,£521. The cost of sending a team to New Zealand was £555. This, however, was regarded as an asset, because the Association had been guaranteed a visit from a New Zealand team next year. Mr McMahon, referring to the last visit of the New Zealanders, said he believed there were as good footballers here as the New Zealanders, if only they would put a little more combination and vim into the play. He hoped the deficiencies would soon be rectified. A cable has been received announcing the death in London of Lady Cooper, widow of Sir Daniel Cooper.

Advices have been received that two Britishers in the New Hebrides have decided to become naturalised French subjects, in order to ,participate in French encouragements to settlers es opposed to their treatment by the Commonwealth.

The Premiers’ Conference opens in Sydney to-morrow. A number of important subjects are down for dis* cussion.

The value of silver, lead, and sine mined in New South Wales last year was £3,313,000. George Brown, a notorious criminal, who recently figured in a sensational attack on a detective, has been sentenced to imprisonment for life for shooting a man with intent to murder him.

Melbourne, April 4. The Employers’ Federation received a reply from the New Zealand Federation to the statements of Mr Swinburne, Minister for Agriculture, in regard to the working of the Arbitra-

tion Act. The statement disagrees with Mr Swinburne’s assertion that the Act is working to great advantage, and contends that more especially in the South Island things are almost at breaking point, the Unions openly assailing employers and threatening to ignore the Act altogether and return to old methods. The letters declare it cannot be said the Act has made for better work or improved methods, or has fostered trade. It has, however, increased the cost of production.

Adelaide, April 4.

The Government have purchased ;he Adelaide tramways for £280,000.