GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1686, 1 March 1906, Page 4

GENERAL CABLES.

By telegraph, Press Ass’d, Copyright London, Feb. 27. M. Cambon, French Ambassador, is negotiating; with Britain with a view to securing emigration of Indians to llounion. Franco isjanxious to develop cotton-growing colonies. The Ohambor of Doputios has given an increased grant to encourage tbo scheme. At tbo North London Police Court the Magistrate, Mr E. S. Fordham, lined two tradesmen twenty shillings and £IOO costs oach for retailing as Irish and Scotch whiskios a mixture mainly consisting of potato spirit. [A great deal of so called “ Scotch ” whisky sold on tho Continent is in reality cheap potato spirit, made and bottled in Hamburg. There is no y a nourishing opon market in that city, whoro ornpty whisky bottles, with tho labels intact, and bearing well known names, aro bought at from -id to lid each to bo refilled. ] Richard Humphroy, the cricketer, was found dead in the Thames. An opon verdict was returned. Nora Long, a New Zealander, gave a successful piano recital at Bechstoin Hall. Favorable criticisms on her playing have been mado. Mr A squitli, assured a deputation that tho municipal authorities’ demand for taxation on site values was founded on common sense and equity. Tho Government would be better able to produce a satisfactory measure if it took time to consider tho problem. Tho Court oi Appeal allowed an appeal against the verdict of a jury, and Mr Justice Darling’s judgment, giving Ward, Look, and Co. damages against tbo Operative Printers Assistants’ Society for inducing a woikman to break his contract of service, and causing a nuisance by picketing. The case arose through the company refusing to employ Unionists. At the inquest on tho body of Sydney Mac A lister Sharwood, brother to Mrs Stephen Fairburn, tho evidence showed thus ho died in a London boarding house of fatty degeneration of the heart, which was due to pernicious anaemia, and that deceased as well as tho paople with whom he was boarding were believers in Christian Scientist treatment. The jury expressed regret that a doctor was not summoned to attend Sharwood during his final illnoss.

Mr Charles Edwards has been appointed Trinity Collego music examiuor for New Zealand and Tasmania. Su z, Feb, 27. Tho Orient steamer Oroya is aground in the Suez Canal • Friesde, Feb. 27. Carl Waddington, . who murdered the man that jilted his' sister, surrendered, and will bo tried at the Brabant As.sises. Berlin, Feb. 27. Eight thousand cabmen have struck in Berlin, as a piotest against the police regulations. S/dnoy, Feb. 28. The Government are taking steps to secure five thousand feet of space at the Christchurch Exhibition, and will iuduco New South Wales business men to be represented.