GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 932, 3 July 1903, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

,TIIE WOOLWICH EXPLOSION,

By Telegraph—Press 'Association— Copyright. LONDON, July 1.

'At an inquest into the accident a

Woolwich Arsenal, the jury returned a verdict that the cause of the explosion was unknown. They considered that the buildings were dangerously close together, and the space between them ought to be traversed by, danger mounds. The abolition of piecework, and independent inspection by the Home Office, was recommended. A LABOR DISPUTE. NEW YORK, July 1.

A large firm in New York, outside the master’s organisations, has arranged with the builders’ unions for twenty-five thousand men to return to work, the unions promising to curtail the working delegates’ powers. ! '

It is expected that the deadlock Will soon end. >, THE COTTON TRADE. NEW YORK, July 1.

The cotton manufacturing corporation at Rhode Island are curtailing their production. One runs for halftime until September. There are now eight thousand operatives and 836,855 spindles idle.

TRIMMING SAILS. CAPETOWN, July 1. In the Cape Assembly, Mr Graham announced the dropping of the promised Commission to enquire into the administration of martiai law. The enquiry, he said, would not serve the true interests of the Cape.

A TRUST LIEUTENANT, NEW YORK, Julyl. Mr Pierpont Morgan has appointed Mr Corey, President of the Carnegie Company, as assistant president of the Steel Trust during Mr Schwab’s < illness. REVENUE RETURNS. LONDON, July. 1. The quarterly revenue returns amount to £34,410,913, including, Customs £8,769,910, excise £7,929,387, stamps £1,180,000.