GENERAL CABLES

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2105, 13 June 1907, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES

United Press Association—Copyright LOND.ON, Juno 12. Mr. Gladstone has, been almost

daily pressed to secure the withdrawal of the ban on tho opera “Mikado,” which was imposed for fear it would cause offence. Yesterday the band of the Japanese flagship Isukuba at Chatham were found to be playing many airs from the Mikado, which is part of their repertoire.

A* fresh ballot at Woolwich favored discontinuance of five days per week. The men prefer to be discharged ratlior than that their comrades should make a further sacrifice. Playing against Middlesex, Scliwwtz took six wickets for 27.

Banbury beat tho Now Zealand bowlers by 47 to 36. J. R. Wilton, a South Australian, is fifth wrangler in the mathematical tripos at Cambridge.

Tiie British Government are authorising tho Chamber of Commerce to grant certificates of value of exports. PARIS, June 12.

Le Matin states that the Czar and Kaiser meet at the end of June on board the Russian Imperial yacht in the North Sea.

NEW YORK, June 12.

Mrs. May Pepper, a celebrated New York spiritualist, has married Edward Ward Vanderbilt, whose family are applying for sequestration of his estates, on the ground that Mrs. Pepper influenced him through a sprightly spirit known to New York society as “Little Bright Eyes.”

The creditors of Milliken Bros., steel bridge builders of New York, have applied for the appointment of a receiver. Millikeu’s lawyer states the liabilities are £1,300,000 and assets £1,800,000.

SYDNEY, Juno 12

Christina Clark, ex-general secretary of the New South Wales Temperance Alliance, sued William Winn, a member of the Alliance, for £IOOO damages for statements reflecting on

her moral cliaractex*. The jlll’y xwu ded her £650.

The State Parliament meets 'or a short financial session on July 2nd. The sossion is expected to last- a fortnight to grant supply prior to the general election, Sadeek, a Hindoo, has been ixeciued at Broken Hill for the niiuMfi-.- <f a woman named Cooney, in Januacy last. The State Government has decided not to participate in any guarantee to the mail syndicate, but the Victorian Government lias changed its attitude since the Premiers’ Conference, Cabinet having decided to contribute a guarantee if the otlior States do so, provided they hold a first mortgage over the vessels. MELBOURNE, Juno 12. The Government offer £SOO for the conviction of Bailor’s murderer. A conference of intor-State University rowing delegates decided to send a team, if iiossible, to the Olympic sports in England next. year. NORFOLK ISLAND, June 12.

Tho fifty-first anniversary of the colony was celebrated by a picnic and sports. There was fine weather.