GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 355, 4 March 1902, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright LONDON. March 2.—Seven members of the Government are suffering from the effects of influenza. The late Mr Savil Gore’s estate has been sworn at £26,320. Admiral Raison and Bishop Monton have accepted the Vice-Presidentship of the Melanesian Mission. The Waterloo Cup resulted : Fawcett’s Farndon Ferry beat Ward’s .Wateravey. ST. PETKRSBURG. March 2.—One hundred and fifty students and others at Moscow have received terms of imprisonment ranging ( )rom a week to tiiree months for crea-

ting a disturbance. MELBOURNE. March 3.—The Agricultural Department has received a cable from London inviting tenders for live hundred tons of flour and two mill'ion pounds

of compressed beef and mutton for tin Army in South Africa. ADELAIDE. March 3.—The Wheel Race resulted : Cameron (Victoria) 1, Rolfe (Victoria) 2, Champness (Adelaide) 3. Time, 4min 3-osec. Walter won the International Half-mile Championship in Jmin 11 l-fisec. Burton, a New Zealander, ran third in Die Hopetoun Stakes. SYDNEY. .March 3.—A fresh outbreak of fire in the workings has caused the re-closing and sealing of the Great colliery. The Presbyterian authorities are advised that numbers of Pacific Island hoys are homeless and penniless as the result of the Federal'legislation. Prior to his departure, Cardinal Moran was presented with a number of farewell addresses from the clergy and laity. Copper telegraph wires are being erected between Sydney and Brisbane to expedite the Pacific cable business. The number of births in Sydney last year wa512,601, 10.6(1 per cent being illegitimate. The deaths numbered 6197, being 1.3 per cent higher than the previous year, and 0.5 per cent, lower than the mean rale for the previous six years. The most noticeable feature is the large increase of deaths .from phthisis.