GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2453, 18 March 1909, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

United Press Association —Copyright. A FREETRADE RESOLUTION. LONDON, March 16. The Liverpool Chamber of Commerce adopted a resolution by, 113 to 49 in favor of freetrade. INFLUENZA IN BRITAIN. Forty members of the House of Commons are ill with influenza. THE KAISER AS TEACHER OF MANNERS. BERLIN, March 16. The Kaiser has issued an edict to the Prussian Army, expressing displeasure at the habit of smoking at dances and dinners in the presence of ladies. SIR SYDENHAM CLARKE’S DAUGHTER ILL. CALCUTTA, March IG. Sir Sydenham Clarke’s daughter is suffering from meningitis at Bombay. Her condition is causing anxiety. [Sir G. Sydenham Clarke, now Governor of Bombay, was Governor of Victoria from 1901 to 1904. Lady Clarke died a few weeks ago.J VICTORIAN WHEAT YIELD.

MELBOURNE.. Kerch 17. The Government -statistician gives a second estimate of the wheat yield as 32,345,649 bushels, an average of 13.12, leaving an exportable surplus of 1,100.000 bushels. AN ANTI-SOCIALIST SCHOOL. The Council of the Employers’ Federation. has decided to establish an antiSocialist school for the purpose of discussing the propoals put forward by the Labor party and Socialists. RATES of exchange. (Received March 17, 11.45 p.m.) SYDNEY, March 17. Sydney and Melbourne banks have reduced the buying rate of exchange on London by 5s and increased the selling rate to the same extent. WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY—REJECTED BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. MELBOURNE, March 17. The Federal Postmaster-General has stated that lie is unable to give any consideration whatever to wireless telegraphic schemes for another year. POPULATION OF AUSTRALIA. The population of the Commonwealth at the end of last year was 4,275,304, an increase for the year of <8,207.