GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1748, 14 May 1906, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

By lalograph* Prtea Asß’n, Copyright Londi n, May 11. The Agonts-General liavo proposed arranging a series of lantom lectures on Australia in tho middle-class schools and County Councils’ continuation schools. The first was delivered at Camberwell Grammar School by Mr W. Clarke, of tho New irouth Wales Agency, and was a great success.

A Blue Book which has been published, dealing with recent developments in Natal, contained Northcote’s eablo to Lord Elgin on March 31 and Lord Pluuket’s of April 3, both being pronounced by nova spapers as most significant.

New York, May 11. Since tho Californian earthquake the aspect of Yellowstono Park has greatly changed. Extinct geysers have resumed ac'ivity, and a new ono has formed.

The discovery of Spiers’ extensive defalcations occasions the belief that he committed suicide, arranging the burglary to divert suspicion, j Spiers was said to have been shot dead by a Burglar, in the presence of his wife,]

Constantinople, May 11 Quite a number of Turkish ladies of position have escaped from the harems and fied to Paris.

Melbourne, May 12. Mr Deakin states in reference to the Natal Blue Book that Lord Northcote, on behalf of the Commonwealth Government, sent a cable to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, making strong representations against any interference by the Imperial authorities in tho affairs of a self-governing colony, and suggesting serious consideration of the step proposed to be taken. After the message was despatched, Mr Deakin communicated with Mr Seddon on the matter. Sydney, May 12.

Tho workers on the Arbitration Court, commenting on the fact that girls working in laundries received only 8s to 10s weekly, said it was insufficient to keep them in decent food and clothes. This condition of things was forcing young women into a state of immorality. Unless they got sufficient to keep body and soul together under healthy conditions, the old conditions of slavery wore far preferable to the present system. _ The plague patient resided in the vicinity of a store where material was collected from Darling harbor. The latest development of the cricket trouble is that the secretary and acting-chairman of tho Cricket Ground Trustees have declined to allow Trickett, president of the Cricket Association, and also one of the trustees of the ground, access to the hooks of the trust. Trickett laid the mattor before the Minister for Lands, and asked for support and protection from him.

Before the Presbyterian General Assembly, 1 Jr. Clouston reported that a committee, representing the Presbyterian, Congregational, and Methodist Churches, was convinced of the feasibility of a workable union of the Protestant Churches. The Anglicans had not made any move in the matter.

Adelaide, May 12. Splendid rains have fallen through out the Slate.

Perth, May 12. William Maxwell has been remanded to New Zealand on a charge of having obtained goods to the value of £75 from John Burns and Co., of Auckland, by false pretences. Notice of appeal was given