GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 387, 11 April 1902, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

DEATHS IN LONDON

By telegraph—Press AssociationCopyright. LONDON, April 9. Ihe deaths of tiie last two weeks were 61 and 41 respectively.

NAVAL COMMAND. Captain Jeliicoe, C. 8., has been appointed naval assistant to the Con. troller of the navy. This is a new. pos’t. FOOTBALL DISASTER. Tiie Government hold an enquiry into the cause of the football disaster. Three hundred arid twenty-five were injured. The King expressed his grief and sympathy with the bereaved, and inquired after the condition of the injured. HOUSE OF CODIDIONS.

The House of Commons adopted the rule to sit on Fridays at noon until 6 p.m. An amendment to take private members’ Bills on Thursdays and Government business on Fridays was negatived by 174 to 145. MURDERS BY OUTLAWS.

Outlaws on the Mahand border waylaid and killed e gilt Sepoys. The Mahands repudiate the crime, and are anxious to arrest the authors.

BULGARIAN ASSASSINS. Four Bulgarians killed and mutilate ed some Mussulman peasants and a boy at Kirkilise, .with a view to provoking reprisals. CHINESE ATTACK RUSSIANS, Six hundred Chunchuses attacked a Russian post at Liaho, Manchuria,and were repulsed with twenty killed. The Russian casualties were seven.,

DIEDIORIAL FUND. Queen Victoria London Memorial fund is still under two hundred thousand pounds^ WHEAT YIELD. ADELAIDE, April 10. The official wheat yield is 8,012,762 bushels, an average oi live decimal sixty-six per acre..

IMPERIAL FEDERATION, SYDNEY, April 10, The news received by the American mail, regarding the Empire Defence scheme is looked upon, by the Tele, graph as an attempt to force an Imperial Federation, The paper states that there is ominously good reason to suspect that au early efiort will be made to bring the undesirable and unwise idea of a defence federation into shape practically. It is none too soon for an emphatic Australian repudiation of a scheme which would impose galling limitations on self-government and

introduce a militarism of the most obnoxious form. PRICE OF .WHEAT,

SYDNEY, April 10, The high price of wheat locally has led to a ship loaded and on the point of departure to England returning to her berth and discharging the cargOj FEDERAL TARIFF^ DIELBOURNE, April 10, ■ The House reimposed a duty of fifteen shillings per .ton on galvanised iron d

RATE OF DISCOUNT.; The banks have decided to reduce the discount rates on sixty-day bills on London by five per cent., tiie premium on the selling side being correspondingly increased..

CORONATION, The suspension of standing orders will be moved to-day to enable the Coronation. Representation Bill to pass all stages. It provides £26,000 for the Commonwealth Contingent, £5500. for the illumination of State capitals, £2OOO for the Bisley team, and £IBSO for Mr Barton’s expenses. With the exception of the last item, the other amounts .will meet .with strong oppositioiij

IMPERIAL CONFERENCE., MELBOURNE, April 10, The Federal Cabinet is discussing the lines on which Mr Barton will act at the Imperial Conference,