GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 938, 10 July 1903, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

FLOURISHING BANK

By, Telegraph—Press AssociationCopyright. LONDON, July 8. The Union Bank of Australia for the half-year has declared a dividend at the rate of eight per cent., added £50,000 to the reserve, and carried forward £19,800. IRISH LAND BILL.

In the. House of Commons, the Irish Land Bill has passed,' excepting seven non-contentious clauses.

COOLNESS OF . WHITTAKER

WRIGHT. Whittaker Wright, promoter of tliq London and Globe Finance Corporation, has- agreed to be voluntarily extradited to London.

TWO YEARS FOR MURDER. . BERLIN, July 8. The higher Court-martial reduced •Lieutenant Hussner’s sentence to two years’ incarceration in a fortress.

THE PHILIPPINES. NEW YORK, July 8. The number of United'States marines in tiie Philippines is to be increased to 1500. RUSSIA BECOMING CIVILISED ST. PETERSBURG, July 8. The Czar has abolished the use of the knout, flogging with rods, and the chaining, of convicts to whcelbarrows 'The order applies both to Saghalien and Siberia. RUSSIA’S CRAFT. , ST. PETERSBURG, July 8. The Russian alarmist information regarding the outlook in the Far East, and the need for redoubled vigilance, is interpreted las an .excuse to enable Russia to remain in possession of Manchuria.

THE GREEK GOVERNMENT. ATHENS, July 8. ' A u evy Greek Government has been formed. M. TJtebtokls 1 having refused to sanction the currant monopoly riotous disturbances occurred in the provinces, which led to the Cabinet’ •resigning, on the ground that rigor-ous-measures alone 1 would maintain cider. The peasants, wlio were prevented from ‘ boarding the trains, with the view to going to Athens to join in a demonstration against the> Government, destroyed the railway," metals in several places. SWINDLING CAPITALISTS NEW, YORK, July 8. The “ bear ” operations forced a sensational decline'in the price of cotton in New York. Enormous sales caused a-fall of nine dollars 50 cents per bale on August options from the prices reached at-the end of June. The “ bull ’’ clique lost four' hundred thousand pounds. ' It‘is /expected that the manufacturers will 'begin to buy. CHEATING THE BRITISH.

; ' NEW YORK, July, 8, The United States Steel Trust establishes a Canadian 1 branch at Port Oalborne, in order to circumvent the British trade-preference proposals/ " AUSTRALIAN NEWS. LAUNCESTON, July 9. Two more cases of smallpox -have occurred in : the city, and one at Mowbray. -

BRISBANE; July 9. Sir John Madden,-who’is visitingthe city, being interviewed, : said the 'Judges in all-the States-agreed with Sir Robert Stout’s protest against tne change in the order of precedence* of Judges.

'FREMANTLE, July 9. i The Governor, in opening the Town Hall,'declared that as an old sailor,’ he felt justified in expressing an opinion on the 'great necessity of Frerdantle being defended as soon as possible from foreign war vessels,All the nations at present appeared’ ■tp be embracing "each other,’but sisi lory taught that they might be embracing to-day and flying at each other’s throats to-morrow. l ■ i SYDNEY, July 9. The report- of the Department of: Labor shows that the factories in the Metropolis last year increased' by one hundred and ninety-eight; Itcalls attention to the increasing pro-; portion of female and child workers. For every man added' to the factory, workers there were over seven, wo-; mer; and children. Amongst the latter, permits were issued by the city “to four hundred and forty-three between the ages of 13 and 14. A decline is noted in the number of Chinese employed in the furniture trade, hut there is a remarkable extension of competition of Chinese in the grocery trade. The report states that

Italians 'and Greeks now practically, mpnopolise the fruit and fish mar-, kc-t.

lu the Council debate on the Ad-djegs-in-yepfy, Mr Slattery moved an 'amendment, regretting that the Governor’s advisers had violated consi itutional precedent by including in the Governor’s Speech a financial statement and a public explanation or apology for some of their admjtvistrative acts. The debate was Adjourned.

MELBOURNE, July 9

jln the. House the Judiciary a,nd 'High Court Bills' were read a third ■time. Tlie Bishop of Melbourne, in a letter to Sir E. Barton, reiterates the contention of a recent deputation of (Pictestant Churches that the order of ecclesiastical precedence should be 'determined by the numerical strength of the denominations. The exodus of workers tp South. Africa continues, including'a number, of the late railway strikers.