GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 471, 12 July 1902, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

COUNT TOLSTOI, By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright. LONDON, July lb. Count Tolstoi’s health lias been restored. PROMPTING TURKEY, Tbe Porte lias asked for the re-dall of the British Consul at Basra, in Persia. There are indications that Russia or Germany is supporting Turkey in re-openiug the Kowcyte question. ALLEGED FRAUDS, The Government are prosecuting Major 0. W. SLuddart and bis two sons' for frauds in Dublin in connection with the Imperial Yeomanry remounts. It is alleged they pocketed £1250 out of one transaction. MR CHAMBERLAIN.

Mr Chamberlain is confined to bis room. He will resume work next week. OBITUARY. Obituary: The Duchess of Atlioll. INTENSE HEAT. There is intense heat in New York, and many cases of sunstroke arc reported. The infantry manoeuvres in France have been suspended for the same cause, some 520 soldiers being •smistruck, three fatally. LORD METHUEN. Lord Methuen, in the course of his reply at Oorsham, said the many kind messages he received from England after capture eulogised the works of his comrades in arms, and their relations with Australasia. GREAT FINANCIAL CONCERN. The Union Bank of London is amalgamating with the hanking firm of Smith, Paynes, and .Smith, and increasing its capital to twenty millions.

THE MOERAKf. Mi.ss Seddori christened the Union Company'a new .steamer Moeraki. The first voyage will be made early m September. GOUDKO FRAUDS, the Dank of Liverpool’s net loss Py tile Goudie frauds was £7k,bUo. ADMIRALTY AND BOILERS . pc Admiralty Committee inquiring into tne question of naval boilers ruported altogetlier adversely to tiie Delluville and favorable to the Bab-cock-Wilcox type, -but they are unable }CT to recommend a standard boiler lhoy consider tfie water tube Jess C'CO uomical than the cylindrical boilers, until a satisfactory type of watertube boiler is forthcoming they recommend for large cruisers and battleships cylindrical boilers of .sufficient power to work auxiliary machinery and maintain ordinary cruising speed, they ought to be of two hundred pounds pressure to the square inch, both for water-tube and cylindrical. • Ibis would economise coal and increase the radius of action. AUSTRALIAN CABLES. T ,,„ ~, PERTH, July 11, will 1 . leas " rer anticipates the year £ 0 min WU , J i a f J balance of , SU '"UU, lie foreshadowed further hoi rowing to complete public works 71 l, r HR'.SHANE, July Jf'.' it in understood that the Government intend to float a million loan in Loudon before the end of the year ti , , SYDNEY, July It. Under the naval retenclmient scheme tkc New South Wales vote has been reduced from ten to five thousand, and meii m, » three tn <■*« hundred filth. Jhe allowances of officers and men have been reduced. Captain Lindmau, officer commanding, retires at his own request. All over fiftv including several officers, will be r'elieved The torpedo depot will be abandoned, and the staff dispersed.;