GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 941, 14 July 1903, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

AN ILL-FATED HOUSE

By Telegraph—Press AssociationCopyright. LONDON, July 12.

The Daily Mail reports that Mr William Clarke, formerly Minister of .Justice in the Parkes Ministry of New South Wales, died' at Capetown on Thursday. His son was murdered in the street last week. .THE OLD SEA WIFE AND HER SONS.

LONDON, July 12

The Prince of Wales presided at the Trinity House dinner. Sir Frederick Darley, Chief Justice of New South Wales, responding for the colonies, declared that Canada’s policy, of immigration and fostering private enterprise had caused the Dominion to be so. prosperous. The Prince of Wales’ visit had increased the ties between the colonies and the Motherland. A LIFE FOR A LIFE.

LONDON, July 12. Dougal, the Moat Farm murderer, will be executed on Tuesday. A reprieve was refused. COLORED LABOR. ’ CAPETOWN, July 12.Tlie /Transvaal Political Association resolved to largely favor imported unskilled colored labor. EXCLUSION OF CHINESE.

CAPETOWN, July 12. The Natal Assembly negatived a resolution against the importation of Chinese. ! PORTUGUESE ASSASSINS. CAPETOWN, July 12. Some Portuguese attacked and stahibed four members of ’the Boer contingent in Somaliland, outside a tavern a,t Delagoa Bay. One succumbed. The assailants were arrested.

TURKS AND BULGARIANS, CONSTANTINOPLE, July 12.,; Twelve hundred troops surrounded

,two hundred Bulgarians near Amatova. 1 Two chiefs were killed in attempting to escape. N ‘ ST. PETERSBURG, July 12. In order to allay agitation, Russia has authorised the workers to) engage in collective' bargaining with the employers through elected representatives. *

FATAL SUNSTROKE. NEW YORK, July 12." Thirty-eight fatal, cases of sunstroke have occurred in New York. AUSTRALIAN NEWS.' : : . 5 ’ ; MELBOURNE, July 13'. ‘ A cable received, by the Melbourne Cricket Club announces that Marylebone has accepted the conditions for a visit of the team. These- include the adoption of the Australian follow-on rule and a suggestion that it is unnecessary to bring English umpires.’ ‘ ■ ■

The rumored deportation of three hundred French convicts to-The nickel mines of, New Caledonia is engaging Sir.E. Barton’s attpntioji. ~ Owing to'ill-health, Mr Shiels' desired to retire from the Ministry, but at the solicitation-of the ’ Premier agreed: to take the-portfolio of, Railways. The Premier takes the Treasurership, and, Mr Bent retains Works and Public Health. I ! ' ■ BRISBANE, July. 13. ’

About 700 white men, chiefly bushmen, shearers, and miners; from the West, are,camped in Mackay district —seeking work in the cane-fields.- , SYDNEY, July 13. The Board of Health Ts pdyised of .a. case of plague at Noumea; 1 ’ ‘