GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 841, 16 March 1903, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

By .Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright.LONDON, March 1.3.

Mr Wise, Attorney G;,oral for New South Wales, -recommends the appointment of an Australian miners’ representative on the proposed Royal Commission to investigate the labor problem in South Africa. Unionist newspapers consider Mr Drage’s promises in regard to increase of wages scarcely distinguishable from those of Crook’s, and therefore are not surprised at Woolwich being prepared for a pure and simple Labor candidate. ...A conference of the Miners’ Federation of Great, Britain refused to endorse a three years’ wages agreement by the South Wales Miners’ Conference. The matter is left in the hands of the workers.

The University boat race has been fixed for April fat. F. S. Kelly,,an Australian, is rowing for Oxford. The late Sir Cavan Duffy’s estate in the United Kingdom is valued at £287-1.

Colonel Manning sustained serious losses of camels in the Kano expedition.

CAPETOWN, March 13

Four.hundred and ninety-three Asiatic emigrants from Bombay and Mauritius have been excluded from the Cape.

East London and King Williamstown are gazetted as plague-infected. CONSTANTINOPLE, March 13....

Russia lias protested at the exclusive employment of German officers to reorganise the gendarmerie. It recommends that officers should he appointed from neutral States, in accordance with the advice of Sir Nicholas OrConnor, British Ambassador at Constantinople.

HONGKONG, Maxell 13.

General Yunglu, Grand Secretary of China, is 'in a critical stale ol' health.

SYDNEY, March 11

Commenting on Canada’s protest against the facilities granted to tile Eastern Extension Company, the Daily Telegraph says it would be Interesting to know how the spirit or the agreement under which the Pacific cable was constructed lias been violated. An important point in the recent negotiations is that whereas four States were bound to the Company for ever through the Commonwealth’s intervention, six States only arc under contract for ten years

'i'he Sydney banks have contributed £BOO and the Union Steamship Company £JOO to the drought- fund. Madame Dolores, prior to her departure for New Zealand, gave a concert for the same object, which realised £lO3. The total at present received is just over £10,000.-

MELBOURNE, March 14

Iloadey’s confectionery i lias been practically gutted by fire. The stock, building, and machinery were valued at £IB,OOO. 'Phe New Zealand Insurance Company holds a line of £IOOO on the building and £4OOO on the stock.

BRISBANE, March 14. A child has been attacked with pjague. The Mayor has received a telegram of sympathy with the cyclone sufferers from Mr Seddon.

The rainfall on the 9th inst. ranged from 71 to 10 inches in Townsville.

A QUEENSLAND DISASTER,

SUPPOSED DROWNING OF EIGHT PEOPLE.

By Telegraph—Press AssociationCopyright.

BRISBANE, March 14

A selector named Hughes, accompanied by his wife and two children, two white men, and two blacks, at--1 emoted to cross the Haughton river on Tuesday night, hut failed. The whole party are missing.

THE PERTH MURDER

STRANGE RECOMMENDATION TO

MERCY. PERTH, March 14

Three men named Maillatt, Lechoixand LintaufT, and three women—Fontain, Voltj, and Dean, have been .sentenced to death for the murder of a Frenchman, Lauffer. With the exception of Maillatt, the condemned people were strongly recommended to mercy.

THE PERTH SCANDAL

THE GIRL DECLARED TO I-lAVE

BEEN INSANE. PERTH, March 1-1

In the libel action, Price denied the whole of Gill’s statements. The medical superintendent at the asylum testified that she suffered from acute chronic mania.

GREAT ELECTRIC RAILWAY

2001) MILES LONG. NEW YORK, March 11. Mr Gales and other American capitalists in lend to build an electric railway two ’thousand miles long front Duluth to Galveston, at a cost of 11 millions sterling.