GENERAL CABLES

Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 688, 6 December 1902, Page 4

GENERAL CABLES

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LONDON". December 1. Twelve thousand people lilt’d past I lie remains of Dr Parker, as they lay in state in the City Temple. 11..M.5. Indefatigable has been ordered to proceed from Trinidad to La (luayra. Admiral Douglas is able to land ■soil men there. Mr Balfour, in a sitiral, analytical pamphlet, has replied to Dr Cluiord s pamphlet denouncing the Education Hill. Mr Balfour describe:-; Dr. Clifford s the unconscious victim oi his own rhetoric. PEKIN, December 1.

Russia is establishing Customs on Hie eastern frontier of Manchuria and at port Arthur, to collect independently of Sir Robert; Hart’s Chinese oflicials. It is expected that Germany and France will adopt ;i similar policy in their spheres. ADELAIDE, December ■>• The Advertiser estimates the wheat yield at 8,200,000 bushels, an a'Vruee of seven bushels. There will be :>,135,f)00 bushels available for exportSYDNEY, December ;>■ Tn moving the second reading in the Legislative Council of the Imantx Protection Hill, designed to Protect the lives of illegitimates. Dr McKeller slated that tlie illegitimate birthrate jn Sydney suburbs was 10 per cent., while in i be country it. was r> per cent. The mortality in the first half-year wa,s 287 per I non, compared with Soper 1000 of legitimates.