GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 316, 17 January 1902, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyrig! London, Jan. 15. There were 944 cases of small-pox ar 49 deaths reported in London last week. Miss Amy Castles has been engaged fc all the next aeries of ballad concerts. The population of Scotland is 4,472,10: During an examination of the Londo and Globe Finance Corporation affairi Whitaker Wright alleged that he allottee blocks of shares to the press, includ ing representatives of the Financiu and Financial Times, Brousson, o the Citizen, Truth, Daily Mail, Australia) _ Mai], and Stuart Campbell, of the Em piro. Mr John O’Donnell, a member cf the House of Commons for Mayo North, son tonced to two months’ imprisonment foi taking part in an unlawful assembly, hat appoaled against the sentence. Now York, Jan. 16. Clibborn Booth and his wife, son-in-law, and daughter of General Booth, as they have como to believe in faith-healing, have resigned from the Salvation Army and joined Dowio, leader of the Zio n Church and Zion City, near Chicago. Paris, Jan. 13. M. Max Begis, ox-Mayor of Algiers, who gained notoriety as an anti-Semite leader during tho Dreyfus trouble, has been sentenced to two yoars’ imprisonment for failing to pay damages awarded in the libel case.

Perth, Jan 16. Lord Hopetoun has left on his return to Melbourne. He expressed delight at his visit. Brisbane, Jan. 16. Tho heat is unabated. Two men named Lyons and Smith died of hoat apoplexy at Rockhampton. There is much damage to proporty in feßjJJftEilllls localities by tho cyclonic storm. Fremantle, Jan. 16. Arrived: S.S. China, from London. Passengers for New Zealand: Mrs Kemp, Misses Jensen (2), O’Hagan, McTurk, Bogers, Locke; Messrs Locke, Soames, Napier, and Packe. Melbourne, Jan. 16. The steamer Citrus brought four Chinese passengers. Under the new Alien Immigration Act they wore not allowed to land. The owners deposited .£4O guarantee that they would not be landed within the Commonwealth. The Federal House has resumed consideration of the tariff. ■Doe. hundred men have produced the .ecessary security needed for permits to go to South Africa,