GENERAL CABLES.
DECEASED WIFE’S SISTER. By Telegraph—Press AssociationCopyright. LONDON, May 3. Seventy-live thousand Birmingham women have petitioned in favor of the Deceased Wife’s Sister Bill, now before the House of Commons.
COLONISING CANADA. NEW YORK, May 3. Twenty thousand settlers arrived in Canadan north-west territories in April, which is a record. A GOODLY COMPANY.
* ROME, May 3. The Kaiser, the Crown Prince, Count liulow, and General Waldersee (German have arrived at Rome, and received a good reception.
CABLE RETURNS. MELBOURNE, May 4. Mr Drake, Postmaster-General, lias* had a return prepared showing the number of cables despatched from New South Wales to New Zealand between April 23, .11102, ami March 3Jst, 191)3. Nineteen thousand five hundred and sixty-seven messages passed over the Pacific line and fourteen thousand one hundred and six over the Eastern Extension line. AN ILLEGAL ORDER.
MELBOURNE, May 4. Several executive ollicers of the Railway Carriage Builders’ Society have resigned their positions. The Secretary, however, has informed the railway authorities that the Executive has no power to order the severance of the Society from the Trades Hail.
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Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 882, 5 May 1903, Page 1
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