GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1803, 9 July 1906, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

By telegraph. Press Ass’n, Copyright

London, July 6 Tho Governor of Pushtikuh repulsed a thousand Turks attempting to seize forts on the frontior, with considerable loss.

In tho lawn tennis doubles championship 8. H. Smith and F, L. Risloy beat Doherty brothers, tho holdors of tho championship, by throo sets to two. In tho mixed doubles A F. ! Wilding and Miss K. Douglas beat A. W. Gore and Miss Thomson 1 , by two sets to ono. Arrived : S.s. Essex from-Welling-ton, Sailed : S.s. Raugatira; for Now Zealand ports. The Dtiko of Abruzzi succeeded in ascending Mount Ruensori/ ih Central Africai This is the first occasion tho summit has boon reached. In the House of Commons Sir

Efiward Grey expressed regret at Mr Dillon’s language. Ho wa<p unable to reply without embarking on a ...premature and dangerous discussion. Unless the House was exceedingly careful it would set in operation forces, always noar the surface, which tho House of Commons would doeply deplore if they broke forth.

Lord Percy agreed it was bettor no

to debate the matter at present. I Mr Taverner has sent King Edward somo cases of Victorian fruit from the Horticultural Show. King Edward asked him to thauk the Victorian Government for the gift. Ten emigrants are sailing for Vic* toria with an aggregate capital of four ■ thousand pounds. The Rev. Edward Stannard, a British missionary in the Congo State, was charged with libelling Commandant Hagstrom, a Swede, and member of the Congo police, in the course of evidence given before the Congo Commission of Inquiry. The case was heard at Coquilhatville, where Stannard was arrested, and resulted in his being found guilty and fined 1000 francs.

Th 9 Board of Trade has appointed a committee to report on the supply and training of British sailors for the mercantile marine.

The Great Northern Railway Company has successfully tested audible instead of visible signals on its Fairfold branch lino, The apparatus is fixed to the track and communicates with the engine, ringing a bell if theline is clear and blowing a whistle if it is blocked.

The Society for the Promotion oi Christian Knowledge has made a grant of £IOOO to the Dunedin Cathedral Fund.

Madrid, July 6.

Senor Horet, Premier of Spain, has resigned, owing to the refusal of a dissolution. Senor Marshall Dominggully has been summoned to form a Ooninot-

, Cairo, July G. * A private belonging to the Dublin Fusiliers was brutally assaulted at Alexandra without provocation. Two notorious criminals were arrested.

Capetown, July G. Seventy-eight Chinese applied for repatriation from the Rand. A number of others, owing to discontent aroused by an interpreter, have since been deported as undesirables.

Sydney, July 7. The fight for tho Cootamundra soat promises to be interesting, Several candidates are announced.

The Hetton, Stockton, and Seaham collieries remain idle, owing to the wheelers’ strike.

The s.s. Victoria from Auckland entered the Heads at 3 a.m.

The barque California has arrived after a smart passage of 75 days from Liverpool.

In connection with tho mail contracts it is rumored that behind one of the tenders are the International Navigation and Oceanic Steam Navigation Company. The s.s. Victoria arrived this morning after a very rough trip. She struck a gale immediately she left Auckland, and stormy conditions, with high seas, continued to reaching Sydney.

Melbourne, July 7. The Board of Health has adopted regulations that no patent medicine shall be offered for sale containing more than ten per cent, of alcohol by volume, [unless sold as an alcoholic compound. The English mail contract includes Laing and Sons, Sunderland, which is taken as an indication that ships will bo built for the new service. Two services were offered, and that for the faster one chosen,

Perth, July 7. The s.s. O.uba, en. route to Sydney, signalled passing Albany yesterday that her main mast was carried away. Adelaide, July 7.

The Premier, in reply to the President of the Mount Gambier Farmers’ Union, asking him to apologise for his recent speech, says ; —“ The subject of your letter calls for no further comment from me.”