GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 1026, 20 October 1903, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

ZION CITIES

By Telegraph—Press AssociationCopyright. NEW YORK, Oct. 18. Dowie expects to raise five million dollars in three weeks in New York, which will be used to establish Zion cities on the Pacific and Atlantic coasts. KING OF ITALY. PARIS, October 18. King Emanuei of Italy attended a shooting excursion at Rambouillet, and was present in the even ng at a. military tattoo at Paris. STATESMAN AILING. LONDON, Oct. 18. The lion. Alfred Lyttelton is suffering from jaundice, and has cancelled all engagements. THE SULTAN’S ASSURANCE. CONSTANTINOPLE, Oct. 18. The Sultan assures Marshal Bieberstein that the rebellion has beer suppressed, except in Djuwoboea district. The insurgents lost heavily in recent encounters in Roslog and Oneida. Several hundred Russian rides and many bombs were found in captured villages. THE CAPITAL SITE. MELBOURNE, Oct. 19. It is believed that the Senate will oppose a straight-out vote at the tree conference on the capital site. CHINESE STRIKERS. MELBOURNE, Oct. 19. The Chinese furniture strikers have agreed to wave the union conditions in return for a ten per cent, increase for piece work. RHODES SCHOLARSHIPS. MELBOURNE, Oct. 19. Tile Committee appointed to lay down conditions in regard to the Rhodes scholarships decided that candidates should not be eligible unless they passed subjects of responses in the Melbourne University matriculation or some other examination deemed equivalent by the board of selectors.