GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 421, 21 May 1902, Page 4

GENERAL CABLES.

CHINA’S PROTEST. By telegraph—Press Association — Copyright. LONDON. May 19.—China protests against being compelled to pay the indemnity in gold, regardless oi the tall in the price of silver. CHEA P A D VER'l’I SEM ENT. Miss Ada Crossley, the Australian Nightingale, gives a concert with wholly Australian artists to the London poor on the day after the King’s dinner. Mr Barton will be asked to preside. A REVOLUTION. The Daily Mail’s Bangkok correspondent states that it is reported that twenty thousand French subjects in Laos territory have revolted eastward oi Mekong. MR CHAMBERLAIN’S SPEECH. Mr Chamberlain, in his speech at Birmingham, said the Empire was attacked on all sides, and it was imperative to cultivate closer internal relations. If, through adherence to the economic pedantry of old shibboleths, we lost the opportunity for closer union with the colonies and passed every chance of keeping trade in British hands, we would deserve the disasters which would infallibly follow. DEATH PENALTY. ST. PETERSBURG. May 19. Baischarett, the murderer of M. Sipiagune, Russian Minister of the Interior, lias been hanged. A BIG FIRE. NEW YORK,

May 19—Armour’s lard refinery 'in Chicago has been destroyed by fire. The damage amounted to one million dollars. Twenty-nine people were injured. FORTY MILES AN HOUR. PARIS.

May 19.—M. Farman’s aleoiiol-work-ed Panhard motor-car won the race from Paris to Arms, averaging forty miles an hour. THE ELINGAMITE. SYDNEY.

May 10.—Arrived, s.s. Elingamite. Siie ran into a hard south-west gale, with a heavy sea, after leaving Auckland. The gale continued till Sunday morning, No damage was done. A DENIAL, In reference to the Manchester Guardian’s statement regarding the relations of the State Governors and the Governor-General, it is absolutely unfounded as far as New South Wales is concerned. THE PLAGUE. One case of plague .s reported. JUSTICE BLIND, The Solicitor-General has decided that no further action can he taken against Per.su, who was concerned in the murder of a Chinaman at Camba, after his having been acquitted on the charge. AN EXPLOSION, MELBOURNE. May 20.—The billiard room of the hotel' at Korrumburra was wrecked by an explosion of acetylene gas. Four people were seriously injured, and a number slightly. One man’s nose was blown off.