GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 436, 7 June 1902, Page 4

GENERAL CABLES.

By telegraph—Press AssociationCopyright. ' LONDON. Mr Michael Herbert, Secretary to the Embassy at Paris, has been appointed ‘British Minister at Washington. Sir Martin Gosselin, Assistant Under-Secretary to the Foreign Office, lias been appointed British Minister at Lisbon. Mr Longstaif, A.R.A., paints a picture of the Queen for the Sydney National Gallery as present from the women of Sydney. The picture will be a companion one to that presented of the King by Earl Beauchamp. The Times announces that the Queensland Government have converted debentures of £99,300 issued for the purchase of agricultural lands into

inscribed stock. The London market objects to these issues any further, as they are likely to prove detrimental to Australian "finance. PARTS. June s.—The Duke of Orleans has issued a manifesto, in which be asserts a firm resolve to resuscitate the throne of Prance, with God's help and the co-operation of all good Frenchmen. M. Waldeck Rousseau, in a farewell letter to M. Loubet, says since public order has been restored and the Re- j public emerged from the elections stronger than ever, he will be able to resign office, in obedience to the dictates of his health. BRISBANE. June C.—The Kenniffs were seen from the township of Mitchell on Tuesday. Tac police an effort to capture (hem, but the Kenniffs being well mounted, they got away. SYDNEY. The Marine Court found that the collision between the Kelloe and Dunmore was caused by the fault of Aistrope, second mate of the Kelloe. Butter is advancing, and is now (pioted at Is (id per lb. None of the rats caught during the past fortnight have been infected with plague. MELBOURNE. June C.—Lord Hopetoun leaves by the Miowera for Vancouver on July 16. In March last the Victorian Government placed a quarter of a million of the authorised half a million three per cent, debenture on the market. It j is understood thae within the last few | days a portion of a second quarter of | a million were privately placed at 94.