GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 134, 17 June 1901, Page 4

GENERAL CABLES.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyrigh London, June 14.

Glasgow University has conferred a Doctorsbip of Laws upon Earls Beauchamp and Glasgow. On the motion of Lord Salisbury, the House of Lords agreed to appoint a Select Committee to deal with the question of the proposed alteration of the accession oath.

Cooper, an unpopular landlord in Sligo, has been awarded £1499 compensation for the malicious burning of his timber two days after the imprisoning of five members of the United Irish League upon charges of intimidation. The Empress Lodge of Freemasons com memorated the inauguration of the Commonwealth. The guests included the Agents-Gencral and a number of prominent Australians.

Lord Salisbury, in the course of a speech, eulogised the colonies. The compulsory winding-up of the British America Company, which commenced with the Whitaker-Wright group, has been ordered. The alleged company took over half a million of the London and Globe Finance Company’s liabilities, and aided disastrous speculations in other instances, Berlin, June 14. Owing to King Leopold’s objections, M. Beenarts has withdrawn the Congo Annexation Bill. Ottawa, June 14. French Canadian lawyers and journalists are strongly opposed to the new Imperial Appellate Court, fearing an Imperialistic menace to constitutional rights. The colonial representatives at the approaching Appellate Court Conference iuelude Mr Justice Hodges (Australia), David Mills (Attorney-General, Canada), Henry Emmerson (Attorney-General and Premier, New Brunswick, representing Newfoundland), Bose Innes (AttorneyGeneral of the Transvaal, representing Capo Colony), W. B. Moreom (of the Natal Assembly), Sir W. J. Smith (Chief Justice of British Guiana, representing various colonics).