GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 583, 29 November 1902, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

By telegraph—Press Association— Copyright. LONDON, November 27. Fifty Irish priests stationed at London have protested at the absence of the Nationalist members iron ttic Lducation Bill debate. Keefe, chairman of the strike committee at Swansea, has lieeu sentenced to twelve months’ imprisonment for maliciously wounding an imported workman. The Rev. Dr. Parker is sinking.

The fund started in London to aid Soutli African loyalists lias reached £56011,

I lol'meyer, and other members of the Africander Bond propose Soutli Afri-. can instead of Africander as the title of the Bond, and that the policy slufild aim at the federation of South Africa on Canadian lines also that settlers he eligible for membership. Mr John Dillon is in hospital and is progressing favourably. MELBOURNE, November 2k A train collided with a travelling engine near Flinders street railway station, and several passengers were slightly injured. Bush lires are raging in Stawell tiisti ict, and doing much damage. Some MPO sheep have been burned. HOBART, November 20. Al the axemen’s carnival. Thomas Pettit, a Tasmanian, won tile world’s champion chop. lii (reference to a cable announcing than an Eastern Cattle and Cold Storage Company is forming, at a meeting of the Northern Corporation, Mr ,L S. Butlers, who on behalf of the Corporation secured large pastoral leases on Roper and Hodgson rivers, in the Northern Territory, stated Unit a Scotch syndicate was negotiating for the purchase oi' half the Corporation’s interests for £25,000.