GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2116, 26 June 1907, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

United Press Association—Copyright LONDON, June 24. Messrs Crooks Fenwick, Rowlands, and other Labor members wore specially presented to the King at a garden party. The Committee on Public Accounts strongly animadvert on the conduct of tho Ayi-shiro Foundry Company in concealing by electric -welding a large fault in a rudder casting, afterwards built into the King Edward AMI. One of tho Company’s dismissed employees divulged the deception. The company are now bankrupt owing to the loss of Admiralty orders. BERLIN, June 24. Herr Hollweig, Prussian Home Secretary, has succeeded Herr Posadowky ns German Minister of the Interior, whoso progressive social policy aroused antagonism of the great industralists and agrarians. Herr •Rolle has succeeded Herr Studt as Prusian Minister of Education, and Herr Friedraoh Moltke has succeeded Herr Hollweig. TEHERAN, June 24. Salareddowleho, brother of the Shah has surrendered' to the authorities at Hnniadan, on . the assurance that his life would be saved. ■NSiAV YORK, June 24. Daily burglaries occur at Long Island by means of motors, revolvers, and chloroform spray guns. Millionaire residents are organising a private force of 85 members to guard their property. SYDNEY, Juno 25. Terrific seas are running along the coast. Tho gale continues. A hurricane passed over the Ellice Group in the middle of April. The island of Nukulaelae was devastated, and 8000 cocoa-nut trees levelled. The native houses were nearly all demolished. PERTH, June 25. The long-standing timber dispute has been settled by the adoption of a co-operative agreement. . Work was resumed to-day.