GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 1034, 29 October 1903, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

By Telegraph—Press AssociationCopyright.) LONDON, Oct; 27.

The King and Cjueen were present at- the opening of the new Gaiety Theatre, Lonuon. Scores waited outside a whole day in the wind and rain. ,

A British force of GOO leaves Aden on November 4th, and operates in the hinterland in connection with the Boundary Commission. Ninety per cent, of coal owners joined the South Wales anthracite amalgamation s-yndicate, representing an annual output of a million tons.

A drawing showing Princess Louise’s design for a bronze Memorial, exhibited in St. Paul’s Cathedral, takes the form of an angei with outstretched wings, leaning tenderly over the crucified Redeemer, There is a .tablet commemorating the deeds of colonial sons of the Empire in the late war, hearing as quotation the fifth and sixth verses of the 43rd chapter of Isaiah. The Times says Sir Wilfrid Lauriers claim for full treaty-making powers points logically to separation. It is difficult to see how to strengthen his hands, unless the Dominion has strength to; give effect to the treaty. NEW YORK, Oct. 27.,

Yesterday’s transactions on . the New York cotton market covered a million and a-half hales, establishing ■a record. Many profit-making sales were made short, as they were semipaniced. At the opening there was an advance in the Liverpool market. jA serous frost has occurred in the central and eastern cotton belts' of America.

Dowic denies that his wife carries seven million dollars. He states he bequeaths his family only 5 per cent, of £4,600,000, the value of the property, he owns in Zion City.-BUDA-PESTH, Oct. 27.

Count Stephen Tiozo, son of a late prominent statesman, has sue-; eeeded if. lledervary as Premier of Hungary,

BERLIN, Oet, 27

The Kaiser, whilst hunting at Blindheim, Bavaria, sank in a hog up 1o the shoulders, liis suite rescued him.

At the Kaiser’s instance, Prussia is building a Seimen’s electric railway from Berlin to Hamburg, with a speed of a hundred miles an hour. CONSTANTINOPLE, OOt. 27. Sagouni, President of the Armenian Refuge Society, was murdered at . Nunhead. The assassins fired four shots and escaped. It is supposed they were connected with advanced Armenian societies, the motive being revenge because Sagouni advocated' passive measures. " u “ ,- ; The Arabs in’" Sanjak and Assya, Agio, Mihor, * revolted in consequence :of 'the imposition of a new cattle tax, and came into collision with Turkish troops. One thousand of the latter were killed and wounded. •Reinforcements have been sent to the district from Smyrna. ST, PETERSBURG, Oct 27, The Bourse Gazette says the time, is opportune for: Russia to tear-' up the remnant of'the musty, obsolete treaty of Paris, and obtain free passage for warships, in the Dardanelles —since she has important interests to guard in the Mediterranean