GENERAL CABLES.
By Telegraph—Press AssociationCopyright. LONDON. Lieutenant-Colonel Mime, Premier of Natal, referring to the colony’s contribution of a ship to the Navy, says that the smallness of the oopula tion prevents it contributing men, but hopes as an outcome of th« Imperial V Council they will be favored with the same preferential treatment as other colonies. The small-pox deaths in London for the past two weeks are forty-three and forty-four respectively. OTTAWA. May 10. —In the House of Commons, Sir Wilfrid Laurier stated that he was prepared to discuss at the Imperial Conference the question of defence in the spirit of Canada’s reply to Mr Chamberlain, but was not prepared to endorse the policy of a certain school in England aiid Canada to bring Canada into the vortex of militarism, which was now a blight and curse to Europe. ST. PETERSBURG. May 15.—Count Tolstoi wrote to the Czar urging him to buy land and transfer it to the peasantry at a cheao rate. He declared that the Czar alone was able to rehabilitate the country unless inllueiice prevented him. 1 The Czar, in thanking Count Tolstoi, declared the letter contained many truths-
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Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 418, 17 May 1902, Page 4
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