GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 823, 23 February 1903, Page 4

GENERAL CABLES.

By Telegraph-Press AssociationCopyright. London, Feb. 20. Rather Flint won the Waterloo Cup, Paracelsus being runner up.

Rome, Feb. 20. The Pone has received one thousand congratulatory telegrams on his twenty-fifth anniversary.

Paris, Feb. 20.

Tho French Minister of Marino sevorely punished several commanders for the frequency of collisions of warships and other preventible accidents.

A gun explosion at Fort La Fayette killed four and injured eleven men.

Germany has returned a few P enezuolan fishing boats. The Restaurador is Jstill Hying the Gorman Hag at Puerto Cabella.

A meeting representing 100,000 ue°TO votes in Now York btate protested against the j disfranchisement of negroes under the now Virginian Constitution, | and applauded President Roosevelt’s negro appointments in tlie South.

Sydney, Feb. 21. Tho barque Saloeig, timber laden, was totally wrecked on a reef near Cossiak during a hoavy gale. Ike crow are safe. Three inches of rain has fallen since Wednesday.

Adelaide, Feb. 21

Three counterfeiters, named'. Osborne, Williams, and Everest, were found guilty. Osborne, who holds a bad record, was sentenced to imprisonment for life, and the others to ton years’ each.

Fronmntle, Feb. 21

Arrived: Orizaba, from London. Passcngors for Now Zealand : Miami Mrs Gowd, Messrs Kerr, Rock, and Hampton.

"Twenty-one cases of plague are re' ported.

Sydney, Feb. 21. There aro 102 cases of typhoid fever at Coonamble, 17 cases having been reported since Wednesday. Fivo cases of scarlet fever aro also recorded. Ah Kin was found guilty of manslaughter by stabbing a boy at Waterloo, and was sentenced to four years’ imprisonment.