GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 364, 14 March 1902, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

; NAVAL CADETS.; By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright LONDON. March 12.—Mr Arnold Foster favors Mr Trevelyan’s suggestion to hold preliminary colonial examinations of naval cadets. 'A PRO-I3OER. McNeill, with the most demonstrative cheers, stated in the House of Commons that he had received several threatening letters. (Mr McNeill is the disloyal member of the House of Commons who took the lead in jeering when the bad news was received of the Methuen disaster.) ABORIGINES. Mr Lattington, in a paper read at a meeting of the Colonial Institute, referred to the apparently swift disappearance of the aborigines of Queensland. THE KING’S RACEHORSES. The King’s steeplechaser Ambush, which was favorite for the Liverpool Grand National, has split his pastern while training, and has been scratched for the event. CITILI PURCHASING GUNS. Chili has ordered from Armstrong’s and the Vickers-Maxim Company two 12,000 ton cruisers, to cost over one million each. They are to be delivered within eight months. DEFENCE. MELBOURNE. March LI. —Mr Barton, referring to Mr Gilbert Parker’s suggestion for cooperation in defence, said it seemed like taxation without representation. The proposal would place a larger financial burden on Australia than she .was able to bear at present. FEDERAL LOANS. ! The first Federal loan of a quarter , of a million, at 3 per cent has been 1 placed locally. The next will be plac- < ed in three or four weeks. Experts | declare it can be floated. s NEW ZEALAND TROOPS. > The troopship Tempicmore has ar- ‘ rived. A number of New Zealand : troops are on board, commanded by Lieutenant Cribb, of the Seventh * New Zealanders. •