GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 81, 13 April 1901, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, April 11. ( The German forces in China find the horses obtained in Oregon unruly and hard to train, and altogether inferior to Australian mounts. France is supporting the Emir of Wadai against Scnassi, the great Makommedan leader in the Soudan and Algerian hinterland. The Dukes of Norfolk and Argyle, Archbishop Temple, and Cardinal Vau-ghan-are appealing for subscriptions for a Queen Victoria Nurse Endowment Eund, with the view of trebling the nine hundred Queen’s nurses of the poor in our humes. The American visible wheat supply is estimated at 711,879,000 bushels. The King retains Sandringham House, the Duke of York being given the use of Balmoral Castle. New York, April 11. Great commissariat frauds have been discovered at Manila. Several American officers have been arrested. New York, April 11. Air Agnew estimates the values of the recovered Gainsborough picture at thirty thousand pounds. It is in excellent condition, and the expenses of its recovery amounted to £IOOO. The thieves were a gang of diamond and bank-bond robbers working in London, on the Continent, and in America. St. Petersburg, April 11. Count Tolstoi, in a dignified letter sent to the Czar in December, pleaded for religious toleration, thus relieving the Russian ruler of a tormenting responsibility. Melbourne, April 12. • Lord Ilopel'oun on arrival was presented with numerous congratulatory addresses. Mr Fitzpatrick, Chief Traffic Manager, has been appointed Acting-Commissioner of Itailways after Air Alathicson’s departure for England, where lie has accepted an important position.