GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 307, 7 January 1902, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

By telegraph—Press Association—Copyrignt. London, Jan. 5. Lord Strathcona has given £25,000 towards the extension of Aberdeen University. Reuter’s Agency states that Sir Sandford Fleming, in a letter to r Mulock, tho Canadian Postuiaster-C .ral, advocates a State-owned Atlm coble, and land lines through Canad: • .ne Marconi wireless system. It is . .united that the revenue of the cabk. , ore penny a word rate would amou ' to ' 10,000 stt-r----hng, and the cost wou. : 00 £ 130,000. Lord Salisbury, replying to a communieation from the Protestant Alliance, stated that he did not intend to legislate against the alleged Jesuit invasion of England. Her Majesty the Queen sent a Christmas gift and sympathetic letter to the Salvation Army for the poor. The Admiralty are making tests of oil fuel on two battleships, and a cruiser belonging to the Channel Squadron. Madrid, Jan. 5. Several thousand strikers at Barcelona are storming the factories. The gendarmes frequently charged the rioters, and the cavalry restored order. Paris, Jan. 5. The French subsidy to New Caledonia has been reduced from GOO,OOO to half a million fraucs. Berlin, Jan. 5. Sergeant-Major Fissher has been sentenced to twelve years’ penal servitude at Mannheim, Germany, for selling mobilisation plans to a French spy. New York, Jan. 5. Tho Panama Canal Company has notified' the Isthmian Canal Commission of its willingness to sell its interests for forty million dollars. Sydney, Jan. G.

Mr Fred Thomas, secretary of the Bowling Association, a well-known bowler, has died of injuries received whilst stopping a runaway horse. Good rains are falling in the coastal districts, and extending inland. Melbourne, Jan. 6. There is a good general rainfall, excepting in the north, where it is light. Perth, Jan. 6. The gold' yield for the. year was 1,581,7560 z, or 200,0000 z above the previous year, and 237,0000 z above tho State’s average record. In the Ministerial election, Messrs Jamieson, Minister of Lands, Gregory, Minister of Mines, and Illingworth, Colonial Treasurer, have been returned unopposed.