GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 848, 24 March 1903, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

UNIVERSITY BOAT. RACE

By; Telegraph—Press 'Association-* Copyright. LONDON, March 22. Boding is 7 to 1 on Cambridge,who will use a short boat, designed and presented by Mr .Spencer GoUan, a New Zealand sportsman. MUNICIPAL TRADING. Mr Long, President of the Board of Trade, speaking at a dinner of the Municipal Corporations Association, foreshadowed a Royal Commission on municipal trading. PERKS STIRS UP 'A HORNETS’ NEST. The newspapers described Perks’ letter as a bombshell. The Westminster Gazette condemns Perks asking the Liberals for a pledge to abolish the Education Act, or any Liberal pledge of Home Rule, as a first measure. A BYE-ELECTION. 'An election to till the vacancy for Fermanagh North, created by the resignation of Mr Archdale, resulted in the return of Mr Mitchell, a Russelite by 2107, Craig (Conservative) scoring 2255. A GREAT BILLIARD CONTEST. In the billiard championship, nine thousand up, Darson beat Stevenson by 200. RESIGNATION OF SIGNOR CASTRO. NEW YORK, March 22. Signor Castro has resigned the Presidency after delivering his presidental address to congress at Caracas. A BIG LEAGUE. BERLIN, March 22. The membership of the German Navy League has now reached 23b,921. A ROUGH PASSAGE,, HOBART, March 23, 'l'lie IJuddafi-Parker steamer Victoria, which arrived yesterday, had a most .tempestuous voyage from the Bin 11. A' SUCCESSFUL DASH FOR LIBERTY. PERTH, March 23. An aboriginal murderer, under sentancc of death, while being, conveyed from Kalgoolie to here, jumped from a moving train, and effected his escape-; A BRUTAL MURDER. An Indian hawker was brutally murdered with an axe near Ballarat. It is supposed that the motive was petty robbery. There is no due to flic perpetrator, STOCK AND DROUGHT, BRISBANE, Mareli 23. A' member of tlie stock owners’ deputation to Lhe Minister of Lands stated that fully ninety per cent, of the cattle in Central Queensland had perished through drought,