GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 374, 25 March 1902, Page 4

GENERAL CABLES.

By telegraph—Press Association —Copyright LONDON. March 23.—Mr Ilav, in a memorial address on President McKinley, delivered in Congress, declared that the most admirable moral of the civil war was the Confederates’ acceptance of the pitiless logic of facts, and submission when beaten. It was possible to admire the desperate daring of those who preferred annihilation to compromise, but the palm of common sense and enlightened patriotic feeling belonged to General Lee, who knew when he had fought enough for his honor and country. The annual Army Bill has passed the Imperial Parliament. 'l'he general condition of Mr Cecil Rhodes is weaker. The King reviews at Hyde Park on June 11th eleven thousand members Tjf the Boys’ Brigade. . France fears that the traitor Grimm communicated to Germany the whole tenor of the Franco-Russian Convention, including mobilisation plans in the event of war with the triple Alllance ' VIENNA. March 23.-The Tagblatt says that General Count VarkolT, attache to the stall of the Grand Duke Sergius of Russia, has been arrested, and documents found in his pockets showed lie was connected with the National Revolutionary Committecn yijiNGToN^ March 23.—The Senate, by 52 to 15, passed a ' Bill affording protection against attacks on the life of the I reSldell,, ' MELBOURNE. The Commonwealth Government have taken over New Guinea- When the necessary documents arrive from England a Bill will be introduced providing a constitution for the island*