GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 99, 6 May 1901, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, May 3. The Canadian-Pacific, Atlantic Coast, and Northern Railway Companies, in conjunction with the Leyland Steamship Line, are opening a new grain route via Lawe Ports to England. It will be 800 miles shorter than the presejit route. An astronomer at Eastbourne reports that the comet is visible in the early morning in the East. It has an unusually bright tail. London, May 4. The Corean Government has again dismissed McLcary Brown against whose recent dismissal Britain successfully remonstrated. Sir Reginald Beauchamp is seeking a divorce from his wife. Hugh Watt, at one time a member of the House of Commons for the Camlachic division of Glasgow, and who visited Australia some years ago in connection with the Northern Territory Mining scheme, is mentioned as the corespondent. Berlin, May 4. Owing to a deadlock over the Canal Bill, the Prussian Diet has been closed. Dr Vanmiguel, Vice-President and Minister of Finance, Herr Van Hammerstein, Minister of Agriculture, Herr Brefold, Minister of Commerco and Mines, have resigned their portfolios. Tokio, May 3. The Japanese Government have resigned, owing to internal dissensions between the two Chambers. St. Petersburg, May 3. A Ministerial crisis has arisen in Russia, owing to a deadlock over the Canal Bill, which provides for linking together by a canal, capable of carrying sea-going vessels, the basins of the Rhine and Elbe and Port Stettin, at a cost of nineteen and a-half millions of pounds. Brisbane, May' C. The man Bulge has died of plague. ,