GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2119, 29 June 1907, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

United Press Association —Copyright LONDON, June 27. The Stock Exchange is^again.cheerful. The general impression is that the tide of adversity has finally turned.

General Booth and Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) have received honorary degrees at Oxford. Both received ovations. The Duke of Devonshire continues to improve slowly. Messrs. Bent and Taverner attended a meeting of the Home and Foreign Produce Exchange, and discussed grading of Victorian butter. Members passed a resolution recommending an alteration of the allotment of points, giving 70 for flavor, 20 for texture, 10 for condition, with a minimum of 90 for first-class. Grading must be done within ten days oi shipment. ' ”, At the Queensland dinner Mr. W. P. Reeves was present. Sir H. Tozer, presiding, referred to Queensland’s posterity. He said h e held (Sufficient to pav not only a halfyear’s interest, but a fuli year in advance. H.M.S. Inflexible has been launched at Clydebank. In the second round of the Al. England - championship at Wimbledon. Brookes defeated Wilding bv 3 sets to 2. Consols, £B4 12s 6d. The rise it due to Mr. Asqijjth’s statement re Transvaal borrowing.'

Mr. Charles Booth has given Mr. Holman Hunt’s “Light of the World” picture to St. Paul’s Cathedral. As the outcome of the South African Products Exhibition, an organisation is being started to push the produce of Britain and British producers in South Africa. Tile headquarters will he in London, with branches in the five African States. Several leading merchants have promised up to £SOOO each annually towards the cost.

King Edward visited Lincoln Agricultural Show. Tile South Africans defeated Kent by two runs after having followed on.

Doherty does not contest the .London tennis championship. The New Zealand bowlers defeated Carlisle, Galashiels, Braid_, and Northern Clubs, losing to Leitli. They scored 200 against 155 in the matches. NEAV YORK, June 27. ‘Evidence for the defeneo in the Idaho murder trial is proceeding. Mrs. Day testified that Orchard told her Steunerberg was responsible for his poverty, adding lie would get even with him. John Elliot, an inmate of the Soldiers’ Home, deposed Unit Orchard told him lie was employed by the Mineowners’ Association, and the AVestern Federation of Miners was about to he crushed, also that something would happen within a month that would startle the world. This was five weeks before Steunerherg’s assassination. A fire occurred in a wooden hotel at Jamestown, crowded with visitors to the Exhibition. There were several buildings destroyed, and 2000 guests had a narrow escape, the fire occurring at night. PARIS, June 27. Prince Borgliese, leader of the Pekin to Paris motorist race, has arrived at Kiatclii, Siberia, in a Pons car. He was stranded in the Gobi desert, natives with camels dragging his motor cycle. MELBOURNE, June 28. AYlfflp 30 scholars in charge of a jeacher were standing oil a staging it Fitzroy gasworks the platform collapsed. All were precipitated to die pavement 20ft below. Five were removed to.the hospital; others sustained slighter injuries.