GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 1019, 12 October 1903, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

THE LATE PHIL MAY.

By Electric Telegraph—Per Press Association—Copyright. LONDON, Oct. 9. The will of the late Phil May has been lodged lor probate. The personalty amounts to £BO3. ALASKAN BOUNDARY. LONDON, Oct. 9. Argument before the Alaska tribunal has concluded. WRESTLING CHAMPIONSHIP, LONDON, Oct. 9. Hackenschmidt beat Antonio Pierri in the wrestling Graeco-Roman championship. EMPIRE BUILDING, LONDON, Oct. 9. The Duke of Westminster has purchased 16,000 acres • at Thabanchu, South Africa, and proposes to induce Cheshire yeomen to emigrate. VICTORIAN LOAN. LONDON, Oct. 9. The Standard believes the Victorian arrangement will take the form of an issue of short term bonds or hills, the market at present being unfavorable for the issue of large permanent loans. “ THE LIFE (OF GLADSTONE.” LONDON, Oct. 9. The first edition of Gladstone’s Life consists of 20,000 copies. It is understood that Mr Morley’s remuneration is ten thousand pounds sterling, MAIL STEAMER REFLOATED. TOKIO, Oet. 9. The French mail steamer Australien has been refloated, and proceeds ,to Nagasaki to dry dock for repairs. IMMIGRATION TO CANADA. OTTAWA, Oet. 9. The immigrants to Canada during the first nine months were 43,187 from Great Britain, 37,498 from the Continent of Europe, and 39,329 front the United States. AUSTRALIAN. SYDNEY, Oct. 10, Owing to the wheelers striking because one of them was dismissed, the Pclaw, the main mine at Newcastle, has been thrown idle. The owners have now applied to the Arbitration Court to prosecute the men for a breach of the Arbitration Act in ■striking. The Colonial Sugar Company propose to increase their capital ' to three millions by the issue of 44,800 new shares at £2O. MELBOURNE, Oct. 10, Sir Malcolm McEachcrn has been elected Lord Mayor. Mr Fairbairn, the Reform League candidate, was elected for Toorak. vice the late Duncan Gillies, heating the Government candidate by 500.