GENERAL CABLES

Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 566, 8 November 1902, Page 4

GENERAL CABLES

BOER OFFERS

By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright, . LONDON,! November si. ■ 1 Tlic War Office lias cabled to Lot i Milner, regretting its inability to accept a lioer contingent. ,ior : Somaliland, TIIM DEMAND BY GERMANY, By telegraph—Press Association— , Copyright, LONDON, November C. ■ The Morning Post states that owing to Great Britain’s objection, to tlte limitation of China’s sovereignty Germany lias abandoned hpr demand. China will accord special ecolibinic political privileges in the Tangtso to aiiy foreign power. BIG MAJORITY FOR A LIBERAL. By Telegraph —Press Assbciation— Copyright, '. LONDON, November <>■ Mr Herbert Samuel, a Liberal, lias iieen elected for Cleveland, vice Mr ■Alfred Pease, resigned, defeating Mr Geoffrey Dnvge by a majority of 20011. GOLD STANDARD CURRENCY, By telegraph— Press Association—i Copyright, ~ ’ LONDON, November 0, Mr, Chamlierlaiii lias appointed a ..committee to study tlte practicability of a. gold standard currency being es,,lrtbUshed in (lie Strn'its settlement and ljeigliboring states. .PNEUMATIC BOOT HEELS, By, telegraph—Press AssociationCopyright. LONDON, November M , Tile War Office lias Ordered 'two thousand' pairs of patent pneumatic boot heels, flic invention of Mr W. Lingard, [ of Wellington,- New Zealand. - A 'IUG SCHEME.; TUBING OF .THE.METROPOLIS. Telegraph—Press, Association—- , , . , Copyright.; , , LONDON, Nowmlief •(!., The principal main line tramway and railway companies propose to lindcr- , lalep ilie tubing of the metropolis, , linking the termini by, means of pi:i'aiiafy circles, with cross tubes radi-it- . ing to all the populous centres. TAMMANY HALL TRIUMPHANT. By Telegrapli—Press Association— Copyright. ' NEW YORK, Nov. <5, .

New York gave the heaviest democratic vote on record, owing to the Tammany revival. BIG GRAIN EXPORT, By Telegraph—Press' Association—- '' j Copyright,! , .. .. OTTAWA, Novembet' fi. Lord Strathcoiia • -states tliat -i he grain exported from Canada in the last financial year gives a revenue of 111,215,1)00 dollars. AUSTRALIAN. NEWS, ' MELBOURNE, Nov, 7, ■ Lord Tennyson, the Governor, is suffering from slight appendices'. •• ' ,-Now that tlie Blue Boole lias been published, Sir Edmund Barton has communicated to ..lbc, Rress, the; ( Tull, text of the resold Lions Jot the Imperial Conference. . >... J • BRISBANE,' Nov. 7,Counsel for the defence of the Kenniffs said, that lie would bring' evidence to prove an alibi. Oite* witness',* ip cross-examination, admitted ' that be would tell a’ - lie if ho Was 1 ' pai,d'fcir it. PEKTif, .November '!. The Commission to'enquire into the charges against Mr Justice Parker Cv-’ onerated him completely, and ; blamed, Mr George, a late member of the Assembly., -and present Commissioner of Railways, fog- bringing in the House a charge of levying, blackmail against Parker without satisfying himself Unit there were any grounds for the accusation. SYDNEY, November 7. Owing to tlie continued drought the Bourke water -supply lias been ' shut, down for 15 .out of-2J hours.