GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 490, 31 July 1902, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

SYMPATHY. FROM ASHANTEEj

MESSAGE TO KING-;

By, Telegraph—Press AssociationCopyright, LONDON, July 2!i. ;

Ex-King Prempeh ami other Ashantec chieß .sent, a message of sympathy with tlie King in his illness, and also a hope Unit he will live to lie their good King, ,

THE BIELEY MEETING.

TIIE GRAND AGGREGATE.,

By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright. LONDON, July 33,

Shaw, of Queensland, was eighteenth.' in the grand aggregate, and secured a prize of .113. Tanglier, Todd, Sloane, Ballinger, Loveday, Wilson, Galliford, White, and Head also; take prizes. NAVAL CONCENTRATION. SWIFT .VESSELS REQUIRED BY) GREAT BRITAIN, By telegraph—Press Association— Copyright. LONDON, July 29.

Lord Brasscy, in an article in the Empire Review, says that it is desire able to concentrate the naval forces nearer the chief trade routes and strategic points. This, he says, would be easy if Great Britain had the swiftest vessels carrying mails and more effective as cruisers, but tiicy could only be obtained by liberal subsidies. MADAME MELBA.

ENTHUSIASTIC FAREWELL,

By .Telegraph—Press Association—- . Copyright! LONDON, July 29, A tremendously enthusiastic farewell was accorded to Madame Melba, 2 at Covent Garden.

The piece chosen for .the occasion was “ Rigoletto.” LIBEL AND CONSITRACYj DAMAGES, £3500. By Telegraph—Press AssociationCopyright, LONDON, July 29, A Belfast jury awarded to Fenton, Grown solicitor, of Sligo, £3500 damages against MaclJugh, M.P., for libel and conspiracy to obtain his dismissal from the solieitorsliip of .the County Council,

THE CHOLERA. By Telegraph—Press AssociationCopyright. LONDON, July 29, Some villages in the Philippines nave lost one.tenth of their inhabitants by cholera. Many American soldiers have died. NEWS FROM FRANCE.

By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright. LONDON, July 29. 7he religious establishments in fifty departments in France have volunmrily dissolved, so that expulsion is unnecessary.

Le Figaro estimates the French harvest at L 32,000,000 hectolitres. three .South Africans' have been arrested ’in Paris in connection with tlio robbery of the Marquis of Anglesey’s jewels,