GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 424, 24 May 1902, Page 4

GENERAL CABLES.

SM A LL-POX DE CRE A SIN G. By telegrapli—Press Association — Copyright. LONDON. May 22.—Sinai 1-pox is decreasing in London. THE CHAMPION SCEPTRE. Mr Sievier offers to race Sceptre against any horse at weight for age and sex for £10,00(1 over a distance of one mile and a quarter arid threequarters, in July or August, at Newmarket or Goodwood. .MILITARY TOURNAMENT. The King and Queen have opened the military tournament. ARMY EDUCATION.

A committee presided over by Mr Akers Douglas condemns the entire system of Army education at Sandhurst, which should he re-modelled, and the course fixed for two years. The cost should he £ll2 instead of £l5O. There should be only one examination of candidates at Woolwich and Sandhurst, or for the militia. Fifty commissions should be granted yearly for students from the colonies, and one hundred for University candidates. A RECENT SALE. Mr Hay proposes to extend the tune for ratifying the sale of the Danish West Indies for a year. FRENCH MINISTRY. PARIS. May 22.—M. Delcasse wi,l probably lie asked to form a Ministry in'succession to M. Waldeck Rousseau. PACIFIC AIMS. BERLIN.

May 22.—The Kaiser at the Chateau Arville, when receiving the thanks of a deputation from the Provincial Assembly oi Alsace-Lorraine for the abolition of dictatorial powers, said he was obliged to wait until be had gained the loyal attachment of his subjects in Keichaland, and has convinced the Powers that Germany s aims were pacific. ESPIONAGE. VIENNA. May 22.—Zaleski, a locksmith, and Schuner, a mason, Austrian ex-sol-diers, have been sentenced to ii and 3i years’ imprisonment at Przemyal for espionage, and furnishing Russia with exact plaster and clay models of fourteen Sallician forts, and with stolen documents. AN APPOINTMENT. PERTH, May 2.1. Mr Allen, the director of the Thames School of Mines, lias been appointed a director of the school here. THE JEALOUS PREMIERS. S*l>NE Y. May 23. —Mr See explains that the representations made by Mr Copeland on tbe precedence question is tiie outcome of the Premiers’ Conference, lie declines further information as the, matter is confidential.