GENERAL CABLES

Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 545, 15 October 1902, Page 4

GENERAL CABLES

By Telegraph—Press Association — Copyright. PARIS. October FT De Bradskv. inventor of a steerable balloon, at Paris, left Yaguirard with a friend, reaching an altitude of tun i'eet, when the ropes sustaining the ear broke, and then fell at Saint Dennis. Both were killed. VFKNNA. October IH. The Czech Clerical Loan Bank lent largo sums on worthless jewellery, and false entries were made creating embezzlement. Broyd acted as leader oi aristocratic pilgrimages to Home. He fared sumptuously, and speculated largely. Several thousand anti-semites, led bv Dr Ltteger, provoked a riot at SI. Polkon, near Vienna, owing to the burgomaster trying to prevent a procession. Ultimately a regiment of infantry with fixed bayonets was required to restore order. LONDON, October Li. One hundred guns, purchased chiefly in Germany, as a present to the last Ameer, have been impounded at Peshawar while en route to Cahill. The British Cabinet refuses to reopen the, discussion on clause 7 of the education Bill, dealing with the management of schools. CONSTANTINOPLE, Oct. IT The Turkish Forest Guards, opening an attack on Shefic Bey’s captors, the latter lied, abandoning Shefic. BERNE. October 13. Full soldiers at Geneva were wounded. two hundred and thirty arrests were made. Many of the persons arrested have been expelled, and are clearing the country. The Anarchists’ strike has collapsed. BRISBANE , October M. A Chinaman has ’been attacked by plague at Bundaberg. MELBOURNE, October It. The Cabinet have adopted a scheme of railway retrenchment, effecting a saving of £180,0(10 annually. It includes reducing the time of paid hands to live days weekly, allowing holidays in lieu of overtime pay, dispensing with supermimaries. The State Parliament opens to-day. The medical officers of the Drayton Grange have asked to he allowed to prepare ;1 special report in reference m the medical and sanitary condition of the vessel. SYDNEY, October If. Another large shipment of Argentine maize has arrived. * A monster meeting of the Protestant Defence Association has inaugurated a forward movement.