GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 281, 6 December 1901, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright

London, Dec. 3. John Aikin and John ltoborts, bookmakers, at Liverpool, have been a .'rested as accessories to Goudie, the Liverpool Bank embezzler.

Obituary : Sir William McCorinac, President of tho Royal College of Surgeons, and a famous surgeon, who at the outbreak of the war accompanied tho British forces to South Africa, aged 65.

The Hague, Dec. 4. Queen Wilhclmina has completely recovered from her.recent illness.

Melbourne, Dec. 5. Mr William O’Brien, an Irish’inember, has arrived on a visit.

The duty on woollen pieces has been reduced to 15 per cent. A uniform duty of 25 per cent has been placed on wearing apparel.

Fremantle, Dec. 5. Bishop Stuart, the Anglican Mission in Persia, has arrived by tho Victoria, onhis way to Napier.

Adelaide, Dec. 5. The Legislative Council passed a motion requesting tho Government to communicate with the Imperial authorities to secure a transfer of the Northern Territory to the Commonwealth on condition that the liabilities incurred by South Australia are paid by the Commonwealth, that the boundary] of the State bo extended north to the 17th parallel, and that tho completion of the trans-continental railway within a definite period be agreed upon.

Brisbane, Dec. 5Tho Special Agricultural Homesteads Bill, which has passed the Committee stage, permits a number of Bessarabian farmers to take up land somewhat on the lines of the village settlements.