GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 410, 8 May 1902, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

By Telegraph—Press AssociationCopyright. LONDON, May (J.

The Standard’s Odessa correspondent states that M. Pietive, the new Minister, has been invested with more power than M. Sepyaghin, his predecessor. M. Pietive favors liberal measures of internal reform.

Archbishop Corrigan, of New York aged 63, is dead. The War Office iias accepted a Sydney tender for five" hundred tons flour and seventy-five thousand pounds corned beef and mutton.

At a sale of pictures at Christie’s a sum of £60,000 was realised. A landscape by Holbein, the famous Dutch painter, fetched 6200 guineas, and a portrait by Sir-Henry Raeburn realised 6100 guineas.

Good coal has been discovered at Roseires and Abuharez, in the Soudan. Edison asserts that his magnetic process for concentration of iron ore will be placed at Great Britain’s disposal, as the. Norw£&i%’<leposits.are sufficient for a century’s work at the Pittsburg prices for American ore. NEW YORK, May 6.

President Roosevelt declined to allow Admiral Dewey and General Miles to accept the decoration of the French Legion of Honor.

ADELAIDE, May 7

There will he only four at the outside of the labour party in the Council. The household suffrage question nas now received its quietus. There will be only one new member of the Council.

BRISBANE, May 7. Two deaths and three cases of plague arc reported.

SYDNEY, May 7

Tlie Rev. Mr Small, missionary to the Otago Presbyterian Church at Epi, New Hebrides, is dead.

News from the Royalty Group reports tnat a disastrous cyclone at Lift did great damage to buildings and plantations. Two schooners were wrecked. It was severely felt at More, where the recruiting schooner Rachael was wrecked. The crew are safe.

QUEEN WILHELMINA. THE HAGUE, May 6. Queen Wilhelmina passed a quiet night. Her condition is fairly satis"actory.

LONDON, May 6. In consequence of an infectious malady from which Queen Wilhelmina was recovering, and which threatened a fatal complication, a.i operation was necessary, and was successfully performed. Towards midnight on Sunday the public were relieved, but disappointed from the stand point of succession. The morning bulletins affected the Paris Bourse, operators fearing European trouble in the event of her death. All the foreign Sovereigns and Governments sent messages of sympathy and inquiry.