GENERAL CABLES

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1638, 3 January 1906, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES

By telegraph, Press Ass'n, Copyright London, Jan 1, H.M.B. Mildura, formerly belong* ing to tho Australian auxiliary squadron, has been placed on the salo list. Paris, Jan. 1. Horvo, a notorious anli-Mhilist, has been sentenced in Paris to,, four years’ imprisonment for provocation to murder and mutiny. Twenty-live others were sentenced to minor terms. A fund has been placed at /lie disposal of Wellman, au Arctic.explorer, to buy an airship in Paris, under tho supervision of Santos Duiuoit, to he sent to headquarters at Spitsbergen, whence Wellman will start for the North Pole in July. /

. , / Ottawa Jan. 1. Canada received 114‘pOO imrni* grants in 1905, including -19,000. Sydney, Jao. 2. The assertions of Cardinal Moran a few.days age, in which he attacked the people of Sydney on their attitudo in regard to Federal capital and for. presuming to speak ou behalf of tho people of New South Wales, have elicited a reply from Mr Carruthers. The latter says that the Cardinal is a supporter of Home Rule, for Ireland but not for New South Wales. His utterance are those of a citizen with strong sympathy for Mr Deakin and strong antipathy to Mr Reid and himself.