GENERAL CABLE.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1642, 8 January 1906, Page 1

GENERAL CABLE.

By telegraph,, Press Ass’n, Copyright London, Jun. 0. Tho Admiralty are a'l-anging grand manoeuvres for Juno nrxt, (mploying four hundrod warahipß. Tho ludiao, Australian, and Ohinoso equndtous will cooperate. Tho aisumption will boWiat war has boen declarod. The threo latter equadrona will meet at Singapore in September, and tako part in joint manoeuvres. New York, Jan. 5. An oxplosion roar Bluofield, West Virginia, killed 23 minors. A fha p break occurred in prioes on tho New York Stock Exohango, owing to a Bpoech by Sobiff, a woll known banker, bofore tho Chamber of Commerce, in which ho predicted an ultimate disastrous panio unless the inelastic ourroncy were reformed, Melbournr, Jan. 6. V. Captain Mylius has boon committed to trial upon a charge of manslaughter in connection with ths wreck of tho La Bella. Tho number of typhoid oaeo3 in Viotoria last year eho" r a phenomenal deoreaso from 2010 to 336. Tho diminution ia tho metropolitan area is attributed to tho development of tho eeworogo system. Portb, Jan. 6.

A doputat’on of tho Federal Siato labor parties waited on Sir Thoe. Playford and urged ‘ho application o' a longuago tost to It. ; i ns. Tho deputation s‘atod that largo natLl -rs were finding thoir way to the goldrie.ds, it was believed under coutraot. S’r Titos. Playford said tho deputation had made out a prima facio case, though he did not see how tboy could prove they were imported under contract. He would briDg the matter under the notico of the Government. Sydney, Jao. 6. H.U.S. Pyramus, the new drill ship fer Now Zealand, has arrived. Almcst continuous trouble was experienced with her boilers, owing to defective tubes. In tho will oase, Mrs Renner, c'ossexamined, denied over baviDg (old Burcber anything to indicate that the will was forged. She knew that Burohor and Rochester had rnado it up botweon them. Two directors of the Orient Company, visiting Australia, stato that the Australian business was transferred to tho Royal Mail Lino by the Paoific Company because it was vory unprofitable.