GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 698, 18 December 1902, Page 4

GENERAL CABLES.

ilarseilles strike failing. By Telegraph—Press AssociationCopyright. LONDON, l)ecemhcr R>. A Heater message suites that an a'riji'a liy 2inii strikers to mtcne.e with the working of Die Marseilles 11 lays w :; s severely repressed. All t;,e unions except the seamens liave decided to resume work. the dockers jiorters, and cartcns have began work, ami the strike is virtually L'utletl. THREE MEN KILLED 11Y AN EXPLOSION. LONDON, Deecmher Hi. A terrible explosion of cordite occurred at the Government factory at Waltham owing to grit in the mixing machines. Three men were Killed. A NOTH EH DARK CLOUD.

LONDON, December in. The Times asserts Unit Count Lams(lorli’s going to Vienna -■ interpreted lo mean that the Bali,yin situation m grave, ami special efforts hcyoml those announced arc being made uu' a ieaewai of iho isili agreement, wine.i is needed to circuinse.'ilje a possible dislurbailee in the spring. M. Rleinvc, Minister of Uic Inferior, has gone to l.ivadia with M. l.oi'is Melikoiie, lo consider the eonstiuuion wiotli Alexander 11, was prepared lo concede, A CHINESE PROTEST,. I,nNOON, December Itching Chinning lias memorialised the lb:one that if iluspia is allowed to establish independent Custom Houses on the Manchurian Homier it would prove dangerous to Chinese soveieign rights, COUNTESS OF DUDLEY; LONDON, Deecmher I'd 'Pi, ; . Countess of Dudley is out, ‘ol lliUlLiCr/ DR TEMPLE. LONDON, December lb, r l he Archbishop of Canterbury spent a restless night, and his condition has not improved, THE KRUPP SCANDAL, BERLIN, December Hi. At the instance of Krupp’s family the prosecution of the .Vorwact to has been dropped, TERRIBLE DISTRESS IN AUSTRIA,-

VIENNA, December 111

The extreme cold is causing terrible distress in Austria. There have been wholesale dismissals, and J-in,ooo iron workers are idle, A SEVERE BRUSH. TOKIO, December IP, The Governor of Formosa reports that, nineteen Japanese were killed and 71 wounded in operations against the insurgents.