General Cablegrams.

Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 15, 19 January 1901, Page 1

General Cablegrams.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright, London, Jan. 17.

Newfoundland holds a special session to renew the modus vlvendi with France. Mr Chamberlain has, invited the Premier to a conference in London, -

Dr Temple conducted the burial service at the interment of Dr Creighton, Bishop of London, at St. Paul’s. He is the first Bishop to be directly buried there.

The reconstruction scheme of the London Globe Finance Corporation proposes' a capital of two million in pound shares, credited with fifteen shillings paid up, with a further five shillings per share payable on allotment. Tho shareholders have offered to take a new share for each old one at present held. The military writers at Pekin are enthusiastic in praise of the Indian troops; in comparison with the Europeans now on active service in China. Only the Japanese troops equalled the Indians in smartness and in actual Work,

When the joint note setting foiih the proposed terms of peace was signed the Chinese envoy, CMng, fetched the Grand Imperial Seal from the custody of a woman servant in the Forbidden City. After the papers had been stamped the seal was returned to the care of tho same servant.

Lord Rosebery, at a meeting of the Wolverhampton Chamber of Commerce, discussed the question of commercial contests in the twentieth century. He said our commercial classes required educating scientifically from the top to the bottom in order that they may fairly compete with the commercial classes of Germany, Japan, and America. He urged that every Chamber of Commerce should appoint travelling trade scholarships. Respite Mr William O’Brien’s and the League’s campaign, several loyalists have been re-elected for Dublin municipality. John Clancy, the extreme anti - British candidate, was rejected.

New York, Jan. 17. Alvord, cashier of the First National Bank, New York, has admitted embezzlement of the funds of that institution, and has been sentenced to thirteen years’ imprisonment. ' The Lowell Observatory, near Boston, in December observed a shaft of light projected from Mars, lasting seventy minutes. Berlin, January 17. Military balloonists have crossed from Berlin to Sweden. Madrid, Jan. 17. Sixteen thousand Spanish deserters during the war in America have been pardoned on the occasion of the marriage of the Duke Asturias. Rome, Jan. 17. A quantity of anti-diphtheria serum at Milan Institute became contaminated during preparation, and produced several deaths from lockjaw. Three hundred tubes were immediately withdrawn from the doctors’ hands.