GENERAL CABLES

Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 974, 21 August 1903, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES

COAL FOR FRENCH NAVY. By .Telegraph—Press AssociationCopyright, LONDON,- August 19. A Cardiff firm has contracted to stippy one hundred and ten thousand tons of coal to the French navy. A NEW STEAMER. LONDON, August 19. The Peninsula Company’s new steamer Mongolia has been launched ac Greenock. BRILLIANT CRICKET.

LONDON, August 19. .The cricketer Knight has a brilliant average for the season of 461 runs.) He scored 229. not out algainst' Worcestershire. .THE SACRED COLLEGE. ROME, August 19. His Holiness the Pope favors augmenting the ■ Anglo-Saxon element in the Sacred College. PREMIER OF NATAL. DURBAN, Aug. 19. Mr G M. Sutton, a member of the Legislative Council for Maritzbtfurg, has succeeded Sir A. Hime as Premier of Natal. ROBBERY IN BOLIVIA. NEW YORK, August 19.

’A 1 number of French, German, and Italian merchants have been imprisoned in Bolivia for refusing to pay tex.es to President Castro which they had already paid. PANAMA CANAL BILL,

America has intimated to Columbia her dissatisfaction 'at the proposed amendment to the Panama Canal Bill. A BATTLESHIP’S TURRET.

PARIS, August 19

The French battleship Massena fired shells at the battleship Sufiieus’ turret to test their effect. The turret was practically undamaged, and the men confined therein were unhurt. SINKING OF. A CRUISER. HONGKONG, August 19. The vessel that collided with the Huantai was Canadian Pacific Company’s steamer Empress of India. The latter, although badly, damaged, saved 170 of the Huantai’s crew. STRIKE THREATENED. HOBART, August 20. With reference to the lajl*or trouble at Mount Lyell, a labor member stated in the Assembly, that it .would reach a climax to-day in a general strike. The matter is ‘under the consideration of the Amalgamated Miners’ Association, .with whom the final decision rests. -AUSTRALIAN NEWS. MELBOURNE, August 20. In regard to Mr Austen Chamberlain’s cabled reference to penny postage, the Federal Postmaster considers universal penny postage in Australia is impossible,, as it would add £330,000 to the. annual loss of the Postal Department. .Owing to recent disclosures as to its overcrowded condition, the Melbourne general cemetery is to clised. Mons Victor, a one-time famous athlete, has suicided. SYDNEY, Aug. 20. A! ifire at the Standard Brewery, partially destroyed the large building, doing damage to the extent of £3OOO. 'A large meeting took initial steps to form a New Zealand Association in Sydney. A> committee - was appointed to draft a scheme. Wallace’s injury was a clean fracture. which will] heal quickly. His game and plucky action was greeted W ; th special enthusiasm at the sendoff. In the Assembly, the Opposition, ’defeating the Government’s attempts to gag them, warmly condemned the Federal Gavernment’s action over the New Siouth Wales electoral boundaries. The Premier declared the matter outside State interference. '

ADELAIDE, Aug. 20

The Assembly discussed the suspension of the City Coroner. The Premier stated that Dr. Smith had stipulated certain conditions for the Board of Inquiry. The Government declined -anything but an unconditional inquiry. Unless Dr. Smith gave way, the whole correspondence on the matter .would be tabled on Tuesday.