GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 701, 22 December 1902, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

By, Telegraph—Press Association--* Copyright. CAPETOWN, December 19. Loyalists declare that liic Bond intrigues are rapidly spreading nor Illward, despite tiic fair programme. Burgher claims under aiticie 10 of llio terms .of surrender amount to 00 millions'. LONDON, December 10. Many casualties and some fatalities have been ca.used by heavy gales on liio British coasts. Lightning destroyed hospital at Kampala, a fortified British post to the nor ill-west of Victoria Nyanza, The patients were uninjured. At the inquest on Maud Marsh, the barmaid who died from poison, a verdict of wilful murder was returned against Chapman. General Nord has been installed President of Kayli, the army acclaiming his appointment. The Grand Jury found a true bill against Colonel Lynelr (for lighting oil the side of the Boers). Paris, December id. The sailors unconditionally surrendered. 'The strike cost Marseilles several million francs. DISASTROUS EARTHQUAKES.; 153 PEOPLE KILLED AND 317 INJURED. LONDON, December 10. An earthquake destroyed Audji.ia, Turkistan, killing one hundred and fifty-live ipeople and injuring three hundred and seventeen.

GERMANY'S REPLY TO CRITICISMS. BERLIN, Dee. 20. The North German Gazette, replying to the statements of tne American press, stigmatises them as unjust, and a wilfully prejudicial altempt to tiUierentiate between the policy of Geimanv and that of Great Britain. Both, the Gazette states, are wholly and exclusively concerned with the enforcement of just claims. SIR PHILIP CURRIE RESIGNS.. LONDON, December 2y, Sir Philip Currie, British Ambassador at Rome, lias resigned, owing ill-health, A MINISTERIAL VICTORY. CAPETOWN, December 2D, The new Legislative Assembly of Natal consists of twenty Ministerial ists and nine Oppositionists, ANARCHISTS REPATRIATED, BUENOS AYRES. Dec. 2d, The Argentine lias repatriated ten Spanish anarchists and .twenty live others, mostly Italians, CEREMONY ON UGANDA RAILWAY, CAPETOWN, Dec. 21. Mrs Chamberlain opened the highest viaduct on the Ug nda railway, AUSTRALIAN NEWS, DAMAGE BY FLOODS AND LIGHTNING, By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright, MELBOURNE, December 20, Much damage bus occurred in .the country through heavy ram. A number of cattle were killed in outlying parts by lightning. Ballarct has liecn hooded three feet deep. Obituary : James Calcheart, the accor, aged 71,