GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2111, 20 June 1907, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

.United Press Association—Copyright LONDON, June TB. (At Lord Elgin’s invitation an in-; ternational Colonial Conference to consider sleeping sickness has opened in' London. iTlie New Zealand bonders beat Carlisle bv 56 to 24, and Sunderland by 49 to 48; ;Tho Lord Chamberlain: has withdrawn the prohibition against the opera “Mikado.” CAPETOWN, June 18. jWliile certain leading persons were in the house of Colonel O’Brign, Commissioner of Police at Johannesburg, dining with tlio family, a pungent smell was noticed. A man was seen escaping over a fence. An outbreak of fire was traced to the basement among some trunks saturated with benzine. The basement was promptly) flooded.

"i PARIS, June 18. The Franeo-Japanese agreement, as oritlined in tlie cablegrams, has been published. Both Powers undertake to respect equality of treatment 'i n China fo*-cauimerco and the subjects of’ all nations. (Members of the Chamber of Deputies unanimously cheered M. Pielioii’s explanatory statement, claiming that the interests of Germany, Italy, and tlie United States had been particularly safeguarded, since the agreement was based oil economic equality of) all.

SAN FRANCISCO, June 18.

(Mayor Schmidt lias been dismissed from office as the result of his conviction.

! BOMBAY, June IS. jDinahth, editor of the newspaper Hindustan, lias been arrested for sedition, SYDNEY, June 19. The sentence passed on Riley for murdering Rose Arrold lias been cominuted to imprisonment for life. W stiff south-west gale is blowing, accompanied by heavy rain and a rough sea. The coal lumpers make another apical through, the press for their fel- ; oiv-unionists to strike.