GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 348, 24 February 1902, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyrighl LONDON, Feb. 21. Three hundred counterfeit £5 notes, perfect imitations, have been received by the Bank of England. Many are in circulation.

Mr Balfour, replying to a pro-Boer correspondent, said that Sir Red vers Buller was not asked to re-write his account of the Spionkop fight, for he had liefer written any. General Iluller’s despatch merely criticised unfavorably Sir Charles Warren’s memorandum. The War Office asked for a narrative for publication, or leave for Lord Roberts to deal with the material already supplied. The allegation suggesting they were tampering with the truth was pernicious nonsense.

As a result of a recent suggestion oi the New South Wales Agent-General, the Standard is forwarding to the soldiers at the front an instalment of 25,000 copies of Mr Chamberlain's and Count von Billow’s speeches,

Hans Grobelaar, with 150 men, made repeated unsuccessful attempts •to traverse Colonel Garrett’s lines, and lied southwards towards the Frankfort-Vrede blockhouse- line. Colonels Knox and Barker have re-occu-pied Senckaal. Fifteen Boers have been captured at Carolina. . . His Majesty the King is visiting Lord Burton at Kongennaire, Staffordshire. ' . It is expeeted that the Liverpool Bank will recover £90,000 of its miss jug funds

NEW YORK, Feb. 21

Eight Jack the Ripper murders of girls have been committed in San Francisco. ST PETERSBURG, Feb. 2A. Five thousand people perished in the Shemakha earthquake. Owing to eight hundred students claiming larger reforms than M. Vaunowsky, Minister of Instruction, offers the St Petersburg University has been closed

HOBART, Feb. 22

The Medical Congress adopted resolutions favoring the establishment of a Nationalist Society for the purpose of collecting and imparting' information on all matters- connected with public health

PERTH, Feb. 22

Two prospectors named McKenzie and Coleman died of thirst in the vicinity of Lake Way. SYDNEY, Feb. 22.

Island news slates tliat. George Me Cube, tlie recruiting officer of a labor •vessel, was’ shot dead by the nativesof the island of Maloyta. The murderers escaped. A fire at Bourke destroyed an hotel and two shops. The insurances included £540 in the New Zealand Insurance Company. A meeting of the constituents of 'Arthur Griffi ths, a member or the Assembly, carried a resolution censuring him, and asking him to resign as the result or his anti-tfritish utterances in connection with the Anti-War League. Jn-reply, Griffiths says he is neither agreeable nor would it be profitable ror him to lace the storm of popular indignation, but unfortunately lie has strong ideas as to right and wrong lie cannot subordinate to any new&paperorganised spasm or popular ignorance or racial autipathy. BRISBANE, Feb. 22 The election campaign is in swing. 'A labor member and a Minis terialist have been returned nnopP °Another boy residing in Gcorgestreet has the plague. MELBOURNE, Feb. tU. Mr Barton lias intimated that Parliament will be asked to vote Tonus to send a Federal team to Bisley to consist of eight members of the defence force.

ADELAIDE, Feb. 22. The members of both Houses vacate their seats on March 31, and the elections will be held on May 3rd. Madrid, I'eb. 22. Traffic at Barcelona is being resumed. Berlin, Feb. 22.

Tho Borlin press comments on Russia s first answer to the Anglo-Japanese and American policy in reference to China as most extraordinary. There is a credit of fifty million roubles for warships of tho new type.