GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 368, 19 March 1902, Page 4

GENERAL CABLES.

ST. LOOTS EXPOSITION. Uy Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, March 17. The exhibition to be opened at St. Louis next year will cover one thousand acres of ground. It will be connected with twenty four railway systems. ROBBERY IN A TRAIN. Two British passengers travelling from London to Vienna by train were robbed of jewels from their luggage while travelling through Germany. RAT KILLING. One hundred thousand rats were killed in London clocks during the past few months.

OBITUARY. Sir Richard Temple, aged 76. A BIG FIRE. The naval arsenal at Valparaiso has been burned. The damage is two million dollars. CUNNING FANG. New York, March 17. Wu Ting Fang, the Chinese Arubas sador at Washington, is accused of detaining 80,000 dollars out of the amount of the Chinese indemnity refunded by America, and forwarding the balance to the Empress-Dowager. His censors demand Wu Ting Fang’s recall. UNREST IN TURKEY. Constantinople, March 17. Great unrest prevails at Constantinople, owing to numbers of civil and military officers having been arrested and deported. Field-Marshal Faud Pasha, recently arrested, was sentenced to five years’ deportation on a charge of conspiracy. LAYING PACIFIC CABLE.

Brisbane, March 18. At noon yesterday, 551 miles of the cable had been laid. The Anglia is paying out at the rate of over eight knots an hour. GERMAN WARSHIP. Sydney, March 18. Sailed, German warship Moewe, for the Islands. ST. PATRICK’S DAY BANQUET. At the St. Patrick’s Day banquet, Archbishop Kelly, in pleading the cause of Ireland, said they might hope to havo an Irish Administration sitting in Dublin Castle and Irish members in the British Cabinet. They should have John Dillon, John Redmond, and men of that kind invited by the King to bring poaco and prosperity to ill-governed Ireland. Let them not place Ireland in a second-rate position as the footstool of Great Britain, and the clouds of misunderstanding would disappear. Ireland would willingly forget the past. ST. PATRICK’S DAY IN AUSTRALIA St. Patrick’s Day celebrations were held in the various States, some of which annually observe the day as a public holiday.