GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 301, 30 December 1901, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

y telegraph—Press Association —Copyright London, Doc. 27. Italy and Russia have signed a draft commercial treaty. An edict dedicates a templo at Pekin to Li Hung Chang. Such honors heretofore havo been restricted to Manchus. •

Chili and Argentine urge Great Britain to expedite the award in the boundary dispute. There are six hundred small-pox patients in London. Obituary : Sir Noel Paton, painter, agod 80. New York, Doc. 27. A German squadron, consisting of the Vineta, Falke, Moltke, and Stein, has arrived at Puerto Gabello. It is believed tho commander is tho bearer of an ultimatum to Venezuela. President Castro has seized some property belonging to tho leader of the military rebellion, though leased to a Frenchman. Franco supports the Frenchman. Paris, Dec. 27.

Derobert, leader of a gang of 225 French smugglers, has been arrested at Pontarliev. Enormous Customs frauds havo been perpetrated. One method was to conceal goods in cushions and under the floor of railway carriages crossing and re-crossing the frontier. Sydney, Dec. 28.

A number of returned soldiers have decided to commence an action against the Government to recover tho balance of tho pay which they allege to be due. The action hinges on tho point whether they-were to be paid 4s Gd per day in excoss of Imperial pay. The Government contends that tho 4s 6d was meant to include the Imperial rate. Melbourne, Dec. 26. A mysterious Growing ease is reported

from Melbourne. Tho bodies of a woman named Chamberlain and threo children wore found floating in the Bay. Tho woman recently arrived from the country, and was in a depressed state. The whereabouts of her oldest daughter, aged 18. are unknown, and it is believed slie also has been drowned.