GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 993, 12 September 1903, Page 4

GENERAL CABLES.

DISUNION AMONG UNIONISTS. 1 ' By; Telegraph—Press ’AssociationCopyright.) LONDON, Sept.’lo. Owing to the late strike pay incident the Executive of the Amalgamated Engineers’ Association instructed the mmbers of a Glasgow branch of the Society to appoint a new district committee. The men declined to do so. RETALIATION BY RUSSIA'. LONDON, Sept. 10. Russia has increased the duty on Ceylon and Indian teas in retaliation for legislation under the sugar bounties by which bounty-fed sugar is excluded from India. LONG TERM OP IMPRISONMENT. BELGRADE, Sept. 10. Lieutenant Michaelovitch, recently arrested here on a charge of stealing Servian mobilisation plans, has been sentenced to fifteen years’ imprisonment. CABLE COMPETITION. MELBOURNE, Sept. 11. Arrangements have been made for telegraph offices to give the * same facilities for duplicating cable messages as are enjoyed by the Eastorn Extension Company. REPLY TO THE TIMES. MELBOURNE, Sept. 11. The Premier, replying to the London Times’ comments on Australian finance, states that they had men left in the States quite as capable of looking after their own affairs as the men in the Federal Parliament. He announced that it was proposed within a week to submit to Parliament a resolution referring the question of reduction of members to a referendum. OLD ’AGE PENSIONS. MELBOURNE, Sept. 11.

An amending Old Ago Pensions Bill has been introduced into the Assembly. It is intended to remedy a number of abuses, and to make well-to-do children keep their parents. It is expected to save several thousands of pounds by revising the method of paying pensions.