GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 894, 18 May 1903, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

ARMY SCANDALS.

By .Telegraph—Press AssociationCopyright. LONDON, Way 15: • Thirty-four men of the Leicester Regiment have been court -martial led at Pretoria for various offences since February. The local newspapers urge an enquiry. FUGITIVES. LONDON, Way 15. Dr. Bennyn, Bishop of Mongolia, reports that the reactionary leaders, General Tungt'uhsiang and ' Prince Tuan, are lying quietly in concealment in his diocese with a few retainers. Both are apprehensive of their personal safety, ENGLAND WAKING UIL LONDON, May 15. The Board of Agriculture has issued an official pamphlet condemning sparrows. It declares that threefourths of the whole food they consume is cultivated grain. A GROWING NATION, CAPETOWN, May 15,

.There are 22,11)0 children attending the Government schools in the Trans vaal. LOYAL STUDENTS. NEW YORK, May 15. A lUimbiT ot M Uniontf> of ’ Yale College are sympathising with the employers, and devote a portion of their time to replacing drivers on strike, A WRECKER.

NEW YORK, May 15. Rousseau is supposed to have sailed for Europe, He is believed to he identical with Rossow, a Chicago Anarchist, who was before the public in .1800. lie left a (taper referring to the destniet on of the White Star liner Naronic, which was mysteriously lost in 18SU. MOAT FARM MURDER, LONDON, May, 15,

The Coroner’s jury returned a verdict of wilful murder agaisnt DougaL A shoemaker identified the boots on Miss Holland’s body, LABOR TROUBLES., SYDNEY, May_ 1-li.; The colliery proprietors are dissatisfied with the decision of the Arbitration Court, and intend to ask for a re-hearing of the case, In the meantime, they, have' temporarily withdrawn the notices of reduction ol the hewing rate,