GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 242, 21 October 1901, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, Oct. 18. Captain C. L. Campbell, of the 16th Lancers, has been appointed to General Babington's staff. The American Tobacco Trust are spending immense sums in makiug gifts to English retailers. British rivals promise the retailers a share of their profits. Admiral DeHorsey, in a letter to the Times, agrees with Admiral Loraine's statement that the British fiag is good enough for the whole Empire. He adds auy other fiag, no matter how emblematic. must he inferior to that of tiio Empire. He is also opposed to absolute I equality of flags desired by both the Motherland and the Commonwealth. London, Get. 19. Sir A. S. Smith, Master of the Bolls, lias resigned, Sir .Richard Henn Coilins, one of the Lord Justices, succeeding him. Sir J. S. Matthew, of the Queen’s Bench Division, succeeds Sir R. Collins.

Washington, Oct. 18. Ilaurer, an anarchist editor at Berlin New Hampshire, has been sentenced to four months’ imprisonment for justifying Caolgos/i in shooting McKinley. Paris, Oct. 18. The newspaper Drapeau states that General Combes, with eleven hundred men, had several fights with revolting natives on the Ivory coast, West Africa, and that 70 were killed and 206 wounded. Keinforceruents are asked for. Sofia, Oct. 18. The American Consul, finding Miss Stone’s captors were tools of the late Macedonian Committee, refuses to pay the ransom, and insists upon the Bulgarian Government arresting the instigators. The Turks have captured and beheaded Holin, a notorious brigand, one of the assassins of the lato M. Stainbuloff, Hungarian statesman. Vienna, Oct. 18. The Premier, Dr. Von Korber, stated in the lleichsrath that the German tariff endangered the safety of the Triple Alliance.