GENERAL CABLES. AUSTRALIAN CABLES

Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 78, 9 April 1901, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

AUSTRALIAN CABLES

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, April 6.

A number of volunteer manoeuvres are to ho held this year at Easter. The Government are arranging for largo camps for a week in August. M. Sarafott and other mombors of tho Macedonian Committee have been arrested at Sofia. Mr Allen Stonolnun has presented tho City of London with a statue of tho Into Queen by the celebrated sculptor, F. J. Williamson.

Owing to tho influence of the electric trains, it has been found necessary to romovo tho magnetic adjustments from tho Kew observatory. At the Alexandra Park Meeting the London Cup resulted as follows : Australian Star 1, Sailor Boy 2, Caramia 3. Won in a cantor by eight lengths, with Caramia a bad third.

Tho barque Hartruen, bound from Norway to Sydney with a cargo of timber, has been'towed into Calais, waterlogged and dismasted. The crew are safe. Paris, April 6. Franco is creating three bases on tho Cape route to the Far East. Fresh grants have been made for ton and a half million francs for the headquarters of a fleet of cruisers at Dakar, Senegal ; ten millions for a second base, with a dry dock, at Diego, Suarez, Madagascar, and three millions for further works at Saigou. Fifty thousands pounds have boon subscribed to the Mansion Houso Fund for a National Memorial to Queen Victoria. Lord Salisbury has started for Riviera. The Spectator declares that tho Kaiser’s recent speeches and telegrams havo shaken public confidence. There arc whispers in Germany that a regency may he necessary. The American battleship Brooklyn has sailed from Manila to represent America at the opening of tho Federal Parliament.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyrght Adelaido, April 7. Tho transport Warrigal lias sailed for Capetown with the Imperial draft contingent. Adelaido, April 8. The fire was caused by a device in. the window, intended to symbolise the Easter season. Tho insurances include: Tho National of Now Zealand £2OOO, Now Zealand £3OOO, Standard of New Zealand .£ISOO, North British .£2OOO. Mr John Crosswell, of the National Insurance Company, Now Zealand, states that since the beginning of tho year the insurance offices have lost nearly £350,000 in Australia and New Zealand. Sydney, April 7. The Antillian, with tho last draft of the Imperial Contingent, has sailed for tho Capo. The City Club boat tho New Zealand bowlers by 80 to 58, winning every rink. Mr Feagan, Stato Minister, has been appointed Federal Under-Secretary for Home Affairs.

Word has been received from New Zealand that the owner of the racehorse Advance has quoted a price to Sir Rupert Clarke. The figure is with-held, and Sir Robert Clarke’s intentions are at present unknown.

Sydney, April 8.

Mr See is having some trouble in reforming the State Ministry. It is rumored that he has made overtures to certain free-traders and to the leader of the labor party, and there is a possibility of a coalition government. Melbourne, April 8.

The mail steamer Prince Regent Fuitpold has been signalled from Wilson’s Promontory with the port shaft broken. Sho requires a tug. The steamer is inward bound from Sydney. Sir G. Turner, when before the Federal Commission, said that if the evidence was strong of the desire of New Zealand to join, lie thought it would not only be admitted as an original state, but receive special terms to meet its isolated position. He considered it useless to expect any commercial reciprocal treaty to be arranged if New Zealand elected to stand out.