GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 1000, 19 September 1903, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

STRANDED GOODWINS.

By, Telegraph—Press Copyright* LONDON, Sept. 17. In connection with the stranding o£ the two Queenslanders named Goodwin, a will has been found under which is left £SOO with reversionary interest to the .Goodwins ; {,lll the original legatees are alive* SKIRMISH WITH ARABS. LONDON, Sept. 17. One of the menfbers oi a detachment of the Hampshire Regiment, joining an escort party in the Aden hinterland, .Was killed, and four wounded, in a skirmish with 'Arabs north-east of Et-hala. LORD SALISBURY’S ESTATE. LONDON, Sept. 17. Lord Sal is|bMry’s estate has been sworn at ±1310,330. FRANCE AND MOROCCO.

' 'LONDON, Sept. 17. Paris public opinion doubts M. Uaures’ re'elation, and anticipates only the extension of the French frontier. There will he ‘no attempt at comitiest in Morocco.

PROPOSED EXCHANGE. LONDON, Sept. 17. The newspaper De Presse Colonialo sufttyjsts that the Channel Islands typ exchanged for French rights in Newfoundland and Pondicherry. , WHITAKER WRIGHT. LONDON, Sept. 17. Whitaker Wright has been committed to trial. EDUCATION QUEATION. LONDON, Sept. 17.

'Mr W. K. Anson, member of the House of Commons for Oxford University, speaking at Manchester, said Sir Norman Lockyer, in liis scheme recently outlined before the British Association, began at the .wrong end. A large extension of universities was not necessary unless there was a more widely diffused desire for education throughout the country.

SPLIT IN BRITISH CABINET. LONDON, Sept. 17. The Times implies that some Ministerial resignations have- been tendered, though not announced. Other papers point to Mr Ritchie, tilts' Duke of Devonshire, Lord George flialmilUon, ajrnl Lord Balfour of Burleigh resigning. CRICKET.

At cricket, Middlesex versus England, Warner made 115, ,G. W. Beldam 57 and 58 unfinished. Marylejbone decides on Monday whether Beldam shall be asked to accompany Warner to Australia. REMARKABLE DEALING WITH DEAD BODIES. ADELAIDE, Sept, 18,

Dr Ramsay Smith, under examination, said that during his connection with the hospital it had been the rule to post mortjem every body, it was possible to operate on, and to take specimens. The only exceptions were when the consent of the relatives was withheld. Evey doctor took specimens. The Government were aW,are of this and among; others who got specimens from him was the Chief S eretary. He had 'been forwarded a request from .tho imperial Government for specimens' for cancer research. He believed that he was acting lawfulli In everything that he did. He denied that there was any foundaeion for the charge of w.antonness, impropriety! and mutilation in dealing with bodies.