General Cablegrams.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, Feb. 7. Tho Great Eastern Railway Co. has ordered 8000 tons of steel rails from Pittsburg, America. The organ of the Railway Servants’ Society has been mulct in .£IOOO damages for accusing a superintendent of drunkenness. . >■' A London “hooligan” has been sentenced to 20 years’ penal servitude for the manslaughter of a policeman. The Duke of Devonshire states that Imperial Federation is premature, and any attempt to define unity by pen-and-ink and parchment will bo more likely to endanger than to safeguard the Empire. Carnegie’s steel works liavo been transferred to Piermont Morgan’s syndicate for a million dollars, thus ensuring control of the steel and iron industry. Lord Rosebery suggests the restoration of Linlithgow Palace as a Scostish memorial to the late Queen. Rome, Fob. 7. In the Chamber of Deputies the Government were defeated by 318 to 102 on questions of general policy, particularly in I regard to tno closing of tho Genoa Labor Exchange.
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Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 33, 8 February 1901, Page 2
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