GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 115, 25 May 1901, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

By Telegraph—Pres3 Association—Copyright London, May 22.

Correspondents on the Gold Coast foreshadow a formidable rising of the natives of Ashanti, and even the Bekwais. Sir Ellis Ashmead Bartlett, M.P., is bankrupt, with liabilities of .£50,000. Sir IV. V. Hareourt abstained from voting on the resolution approving of the scheme of re-organisation of tho Army. He was absent from the debate on Sir IT. Fowler's amendment to the Finance Bill, as he was not consulted in framing it. . The glass-blowers’ strike in Belgium has collapsed. The strike began in August last. Wages to the amount of half a million pounds have been lost. Tho strikeis failed to oust non-unionists.

The Saul, of Kebbaina, a tribe on the coast of Morocco, shot and killed M. I’ougot, a French yachtsman. France has sent two cruisers to Morocco to obtain redress from the Sultan. The explosion at Kalgan, news of which was cabled on the 16th, killed and injured 200 Chinese. 1 May 23. Canada has offered British shipbuilders a bonus to construct ships in Canada. America has planned battleships of sixteen thousand tons. The American visible wheat supply is estimated at ~>i, 019,000 bushels. Cairo, May 23. The Khedive pardoned Arabi Pasha and lju.stapa Ferny, who have been living in exile in Ceylon, and allows them to return to Egypt.