GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 334, 6 February 1902, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, Feb. 4.

Plans for a new railway between Edinburgh and Glasgow, at a speed of 117 miles an hour, have been submitted to tho Board of Trade. The London Univorsity is considering tho conferment of degrees of Commerce. Three Judges of tho Irish- King's Bench uphold tho sentences on O'Donnell and others of unlawful assembly at Rubella, Lord Chief Justice Bateson dissented on tho ground that tho summonses contained charges outsido the jurisdiction of the magistrates, but his opinion was overruled.

Tho Kaiser has presented Count Waldorsoo with a captured canon 250 years old, used against the Legations at Pekin. A naval reserve of Maltese is being formed undor promising conditions. Melbourne, Feb. 5.

Captain Savillo Gore, a member of Lord Hopetoun’s stall, who died of enteric fovor, was aged 25. Ho belonged to tho family of the Earl of Arran. Perth, Feb. 5.

Official examinations reveal a discovery of potroloum asphaltum on tho Warren river. There is a satisfactory formation, identical with tho Californian oil region.

Sydney, Feb. 5. Tho bodies of Backs and Fuller, who perished in the great colliery disaster of 1900, bavo been found in the pit. Both are easily recognisable. Brisbane, Feb. 5. Parliament has dissolved. Hobart, Feb. 5.

Mr Lewis does not approve of any request being made to tho Homo Government for tho Coronation invitations, or that the Imperial Government should be asked to pay the expenses of 3uoh Premiers as are invited.