NEWS JOTTINGS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3334, 28 September 1911, Page 5

NEWS JOTTINGS.

New Zealand share quotations at Horae are unaltered. . . The Victorian Railway Commissioners 3, report shows that the net revenue from the State railways is 4.24 per centum on the railway dents. Entries for the Sydney Rifle Association’s annual meeting total 1500. The prize money amounts to £SOOO. The Mexican Presidential elections have been fixed for Sunday, October Ist. H.M.S. Orion’s gun trials have concluded satisfactorily. The trials included broadsides from 13.5 guns. The Canadian Government ship Arctic has returned to port. The vessel made the North-West passage, and surveyed Bank’s Land. , ~ ~ Advices from China state that all the Canadian missionaries are safe. The terms on which the case, ii#ast v. Herman Lewis, claim £IBOO for commission, were settled out of court were the payment by defendant of £125 solicitors’ costs. ~ , < The Bank of Egypt, Limited, has stopped payment. .. . wv, . A cable message from New York state that the markets are demoralised. There have , been falls in nearly every issue. Railroad shares have slumped. The causes are unknown. A Press Association cable states that Otto Grafton has been scratched for the Epsom an<l Metropolitan Handicaps.