GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 375, 26 March 1902, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

By telegraph—Press Association—Copyright LONDON, last night. Canada sends a contingent to' the Coronation. Nearly two thousand applications have already been received. r l o accommodate visitors from New South Wales and Victoria, the colonial office has been asked to provide more accommodation. France is arranging to utilise the. Marconi system in connection with her Mediterranean possessions and the colonies of West Central Africa. The Kwaugtsi rebels captured Kanchau. M. Deleasse includes among French interests the Hankau railway, which w&s originally Belgian. Leading'. Japanese newspapers suspect France of territorial designs in Yunnan and Russia in Manchuria. Gabriel, a Frenchman, shot a policeman at Hayti with a revolver. The officer was trying to arrest Gabriel on a charge of treason. The policeman wounded him. The man was arrested and subsequently executed. The French Minister claims his body and asks that a warship be sent to Hayti. The Government of Hayti claims Gabriel as a Haytian subject. A Venezuelan warship followed the steamer Ban Righ to a port of Spain. Sir Andrew Clark’s condition occasions anxiety. He is in a very , weak state. The Suez Canal, which was blocked by a steamer that caught fire, is now reopened. Alexander AlexiefT, the Cominander-in-Chief in Eastern Siberia, has been granted several months’ leave. This is interpreted to mean that Russia is not anticipating complications. NEW YORK. March 24.—William Redmond, speaking at Chicago, said that it the Nationalists were unable to obtain Home Rule they would destroy Parliament, and stop all government. BERLIN. March 27.—Count von Bulow is spending a holiday in Italy, and meets Signor Prinetti, Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs. A renewal of the Triple Alliance is regarded in Berlin as an assured fact.