GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 399, 25 April 1902, Page 4

GENERAL CABLES.

RUSSIA’S DESIGNS.

By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright. LONDON. April 23.—1 t lias been discovered ■that Russia is building a -railway, leaving the Siberian line seventy wiles west of Khailar to Kaigin, within one hundred miles of Pekin. It runs mostly through Mongolian territory, MUTINOUS SOUDANESE. Four months’ hard fighting resulted in the suppression of one hundred and seventy Soudanese mutineers, who are in alliance with the Langos tribesmen in the North Unyoni, the disturbed Upper Nile distr cts. AN ELECTION. The polling for the election of a member for Woolwich in succession to Colonel Hughes (resigned), takes place on the 30th. THE NAVY. : The Natal Assembly has approved of the Imperial Conference in London discussing the principle of colonial contributions to the Navy. GERMAN WARE.

A German consignment of comforts sent to Bloemfontein refugees was found to consist largely of filthy, unwashed, left-off clothing. Eight ladies unpacking it were made seriously ill. TELEGRAPHY, Lord Kelvin, President of the Royal Society, at Edinburgh, addressing the American Institute of Electrical Engineers at New York, predicted that sub-' marine telegraphy would continue useful after wireless telegraphy was a commercial success. THE BARBICAN FIRE.

The estimates of the damage by the Barbican lire have been largely reduced. GANG OF SWINDLERS. The police arrested Darcy Middleton, Charles Forrester, Edward Lovelock, and John Cassels, alleged members of a gang of twelve swindlers, well-known in Sydney and Adelaide, and they were charged at Westminster Court with' keeping a Hat at Buckingham Gate for the purpose of gambling. They were remanded. PARIS. April 23.—At Russia’s instigation, the Paris police searched the residence of fifteen Russian students, and found correspondence relating to M. Sipiaguinc’s assassination. Probably the students will be extradited from France.