CENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2601, 8 September 1909, Page 5

CENERAL CABLE NEWS.

ENGLAND’S HOP CROPS. United Prebb Association—Copyright LONDON, September 6. Owing to the prevalence of aphis blight it is estimated that the English hop crop is the shortest since 1883. FATAL HUNTING ACCIDENT. (Received September 7, 10.30 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 7. Mr. Richard Lawley, only son of Sir Arthur Lawley, Governor of Madras, was killed while hunting in the Nilgiri Hills, on Saturday. [The Nilgiri, or Neilgherry Hills, form a mountainous district in the south of India, much used as a health resort.] SOAKING RAINS IN NEW SOUTH WALES. SYDNEY, Sept. 7. Soaking rain has fallen for the last few days, and crop prospects are good. AUSTRALIAN JOINT STOCK BANK An extraordinary general meeting of the shareholders of the Australian Joint Stock Bank approved of the directors’ scheme to reconstruct, as contained in the recent circular, and of the sale to the reconstructed bank of the old bank’s business. THE NEW SOUTH WALES BUTTERTRADE. A conference of representatives of co-operative butter factories resolved to support the policy of the directors to export with the view of checking the manipulation of the butter market by speculators.