GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3217, 13 May 1911, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

SCOTTISH COMMISSIONERS REPORT. [UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT.} LONDON, May 11. The Scottish Agricultural Commission’s report on Australia gives a- full description of the agricultural and pastoral conditions. The preface insists that everywhere there is an unsatisfied demand for manual laborers. CHINESE PRODUCE FOR HOME. A steamer has arrived at Liverpool with 16,000 carcases of Chinese-pork, 72,000 cases of frozen goods, 10,000 cases of lard, and 1000 cases of eggs. A MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE. PARIS, May 11. Ferdinand Darrast, a well-known militant Catholic leader, has disappeared. His clothes were found on the banks ofe- the Seine. The theory of suicide is rejected. TREMENDOUS THUNDERSTORMS. BERLIN, May 11. Tremendous thunderstorms occurred in West and South Germany. Many deaths resulted from lightning. AN INVOLVED LAWSUIT. The Bavarian Revenue Department is suing the heirs of the late Ritter Von Kleom, a millionaire member of the Upper House, for £IBO,OOO sterling on the ground that for twenty years he valued his property ot 2,000,000 to 4,000,000 marks,whereas it was really worth 40,000,000 marks. RUSSIAN PREMIER CONDEMNED. ST. PETERSBURG, May 111, The Duma by 202 to 82 votes passed the Octoberists’ resolution condemning M. Stolypin’s use of the prerogative in connection with the Zemstvos in the western provinces. THE PRICE OF COAL. (Received 1 May 12, 11.30 p.m.) LONDON, May 12. The South Wales Coal Conciliation Board has agreed 1 to one and a quarter per centum reduction in wages, owing to a fall in the average selling price. INDIGNANT CRETANS. (Received. May 12, 11.30' p.m.) LONDON, May 12. Reuter’s Canea correspondent reports that the decision to send to number of Cadis- —or judges —to Crete, led to three thousand 1 inhabitants of Canea. assembling. They resolved-' to prevent the judges landing, argueing that the appointments were contrary to the Cretan constitutions as recognised by the Powers. ■ There could be no Cadis created for 11 years.