GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 879, 1 May 1903, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

ETHERGRAMS IN TIIE NAVY,

By, Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright. LONDON, April 29.

In Lie House of Commons, Air Arnold Forster stated that the present average expenditure upon elliergrams in the Navy was *20,800 per annum. EARLY CLOSING SHOPS BILL. LONDON, April 29.

In the House of Lords, Lord Avebury's Early Closing Shops Bill was read a second time. SIR WILLIAM lIARCOURT.

LONDON, April 29. Sir William Ilareourt is ill. He is .suffering from severe rheumatism.

IMPROVING MARKSMEN

LONDON, April 29. The percentage of hits m the gunnery practice of the British Mediterranean licet has been raised from 33 to over 50.

BRITONS AWAKING

LONDON, April 29

’Thirty thousand pounds have been subscribed towards the, Lancashire movement in favor of cotton-growing in Die British Empire. TWO ’THOUSAND GUINEAS RACE LONDON, April 29. At the Newmarket meet mg, the Two 'Thousand Guineas race resulted Roeksand first, Flotsam second, and Rabclois I bird, ORIENT STEAMSHIP CO, LONDON, April 29.

’The annual report, of the Orient Steamship Company shows a credit balance of M1:172. The managers will contribute the balance necessary to pay a dividend on the preferred shares, and it is proposed to pay a dividend of live per cent, on deferred shares out of the deferred reserve account.

DESTRUCTIVE FIRES. NEW YORK, April 29

Forest fires have destroyed the town of Kimball, in the Stale of iViseonsin. GIGANTIC PROFITS.

NEW YORK, April 29, The underwriters of the American Steel Trust made two hundred per cent, profit.

OBITUARY. HOBART, April 30. Obituary : J. M. Hornsby, aged seventy-one. it is son recently sat in the New Zealand Parliament. CAPETOWN EXHIBITION.

SYDNEY, April 30. 'The Government does not, intend to be represented at the Colonial Industrial Exhibition at Capetown, opening at the end of this year, or at the Johannesburg International Peace Exhibition next year. MEASLES OUTBREAK.

SYDNEY, April 30. Reierriug to tlic recent, departure of three Sydney doctors to help to cope with tile measles outbreak at Fiji, the president of the Board of Health said that the alleged virulence of the measles at Fiji was a delusion. It does not assume a severer form ’ there than anywhere else. beating; the customs.

MELBOURNE, April 39. The Abraham judgment, coming so close on the heels of the decision that the Commonwealth cannot tax the State Government’s imports, has nonplussed the Federal Ministers, who, however, claim that Lhe decision applies to Victoria only, but they, apparently, are dubious about this, pending the opinion of the AttorneyGeneral, to whom it has been submitted prior to reference to the Full Court.

THREATENED STRIKE. MELBOURNE, April 21). The railway men have until Friday to reply to the Government ultimatum. In the meantime they are holding meetings and obtaining legal advice before coming to a decision.

A rumor is current that in the event of a strike, the Newcaslle miners have arranged not to hew coal for the Victorian railways. It is al so stated that substantial assistance

las been promised by the English tnd inter-State Railway Men’s Unions.