GENERAL CABLES

Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 683, 1 December 1902, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES

LORD KITCHENER. HIS ARRIVAL AT BOMBAY. By Telegraph—Press AssociationCopyright. BOMBAY, November 28. Lord Kitchener has arrived here. He was given a hearty reception. RUSSIA’S PROGRESS. MERCANTILE MARINE DEPARTMENT, ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 28. Russia is establishing a Mercantile Marine Department, for the purpose of assisting new steamship companies by loans for construction, and with subsidies. A CRISIS IN RUSSIA. 115,000 WORKERS DISCHARGED. ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 28. There is a growing commercial crisis in Southern Russia. One hundred and forty-live thousand workers have been discharged from the collieries, ironworks, and oil mines during the year. ANOTHER STRIKE. WORK INTERFERED WITH. PARIS, November 28. The naval reservists at Marseilles, an.l French crews generally, have gone out oil strike for an increase of wages. Work ashore is seriously interfered with. The departure of steamers, including the Armaucl Behic, for Austrar lia, has been delayed. FRENCH DESERTERS, FROM TWO TORPEDO BOATS, PARIS, November 28. The crews of two French torpedo boats at Bizerta have deserted, alleging ill-treatment, insults, and bad food, A LIBERAL WOMAN, BERLIN, November 28. Frau Krttpp has given another million marks (the fourth) for the general benefit of the town of Essen,

FOUNDERING OF A STEAMER, FIFTEEN LIVES LOST. NEW YORK, November 28. An America steamer foundered in a gale on Lake Erie. The crew, numbering fifteen, were drowned, A BIG CATTLE RANCHE, EXPENDITURE OF L 1,090,000. NEW YORK, November 28. An American syndicate has purchased four thousand square miles in tho vicinity of Llpaso, Texas, for a cattle ranche, and are spending four millions sterling on it, GREAT GUN FOR SANDY HOOK. NEW YORK. November 28. A IGin. gun, weighing 130 tons, and having a range of 31 miles, is being erecied at bandy Hook, costing a. sum of L2b,l)(lO, INCREASE OF MORMONS, NEW YORK, November 28. The membership of the Mormons has more than doubled during the last dedecade.

AFFAIRS IN SOUTH AFRICA, CAPETOWN, November 28. Lord Milner, in response to a welcome at Frankfort, promised the district s]>ecial consideration, none having suffered more during the war. Vlok, interviewed, said mat the Dutchmen’s hope was that ultimately the Dutch in South Africa would be more wide spread and deep-rooted than Englishmen imagined. Tie attributes their aspirations largely to the unwiso leniency shown lo reliefs, WAR ON THE SOCIALISTS IN GERMANY.

A RINGING APPEAL, BERLIN, November 28. The Socialist newspaper Vorwarts has published a copy of ringing appeal, signed by princes, nobles, great linanciers, and industrial representatives of Germany, backed by the Kaiser, calling for a systematic moveiucot for the extermination of social democracy as immoral and corrosive, and imperilling the honor of domestic life in Germany. The organisation is preparing to circulate eight million pamphlets, urging voters to resist the danger which is undermining the Fatherland. Socialists, to light the organisation, are appealing for a campaign fund,of tnree million marks. SYDNEY TELEGRAPH CHANGING ITS TUNE. PROSPEROUS NEW ZEALAND,. SYDNEY, Nov. 29. Tiie Sydney Daily Telegraph publishes a leader appreciative of New Zealand's prosperity. It says that m substantial respects the colony proguesses apace, and instances the large increase in the export of meat and butter The explanation of the development is that the Government m good times has been as wisely as it was often badly administered. Good government set in under Sir Ilarry Atkinson. Since the latter out the country’s house in order it had never looked back. In saying this, the Telegraph d°cs not desire to disparage the present Government or question Mr Seddou’s ability in employing opportunities to modernise social legislation, but simply to assert an historicil fact. New Zealand’s prosperity d'atefc ’from the inauguration or retrenchment.

FATAL EXPLOSION, TWO MEN KILLED. PERTH. Nov. 29. A charge exploded in the Kanowna Consolidated mine. Two men, Bryant and Williams, were killed, and a third named Martin, was critically injured. AUSTRALIAN NEWS. HOBART. Nov. 29. The Legislative Council has passed the Income Tax Bill through all stagey