GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 347, 22 February 1902, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright

LONDON, Fell. 20. 'I .here are 125 u small-pox patients in London. 11.M.5. Furious and Flying Fish lave arrived at Portsmouth The damage to the former is not serious. An English instructor is re-organis-ing the Korean army. 'I hirty-two persons buried in the Sehemakha earthquake were extricated Rom the ruins alive. One thousand ladies have been recovered. MADRID. Feb. 2d. The Barcelona strikers kdleo three of their number for restin',ttr work, t he real cause of the discontent- is (he mss of colonial markets, o.vr-produc--1:011, and low wages. It is proposed to precipitate a general stake in Spain on March Ist. BERLIN. FeE 2d. The Budget Committee of ;ne Rei-i-i stag have drastically re'. red the estimates of the German expo Ftionarv n ice to China, and are man testing a sDong feeling against the' formation of a colonial army. Itidicat.ors were If.ven that Germany contemplates the rt tent ion of eight hundred troops at .Shanghai, strongly fortifying Kioachau, and providing aceotn nodation (here for five thousand troop:. A deputation of investo's in Wesuv.lian stocks arc presenting HI. Lefii.v with a petition which cates that ■he retrospective effect of the tariff, ai.ded to tlie serious hardslrus of investors, was calculated t.> exclude c; pital and alienate W'eshalia's fi iends. i MELBOURNE, Feb. 21. The Argus voices a proposal that the Federal Constitution lie amended to allow Parliament to sit alternately at Melbourne and Sydney. The suggettion is causing much comment in Federal circles. Mr Barton has declared against it. A majority of tiic members consider it to he a gross breach of faith. It is strongly opposed in New South Wales.

The cyclist Martin has sailed upon a tour of New Zealand. lIOBART, Feb. 21.

At the Medical Congress Professor Allen, of Melbourne University, read a paper on cancer. Me declared that most of the apparent increase in the disease was fictitious, and due partly, to better diagnosis and more explicit registration. Certain Masses of external cancer were decreasing. SYDNEY, Feb. 21, Thc trouble on the s s. Aorangi hasbeen settled, and work has been resumed on (lie understanding that only, unionists will be employed in future, Tiie difficulty arose through a misunderstanding. Arrived : s.s. Kent. She proceeds to New Zealand to embark troops. Cardinal Moran has delayed his departure for Rome until March 3rd. In view of the plague the Government takes summary criminal action against the owners of of property putting obstacles in the way of cleaning up,