GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 1050, 18 November 1903, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

DISASTROUS RAILWAY COLLISION.

FORTY PEOPLE KILLED AND MANY INJURED.

By Electric Telegraph—Per Press Association—Copyright. NEW YORK, Nov. IG. Tlie Illinois train collided at Kentwood. x Forty, people, including thirty-nine negroes, were killed. Three whites and twenty negroes .were injured;

BIG ROBBERIES.

LONDON, Npv. 16

Various robberies by four Englishmen recently arrested in Paris total ;£.80,000, chiefly from banks.

NEW BATTLESHIPS. LONDON, Nov. 16.

Tile keel of the battleship Hibernia (of the King Edward VII. class, has been ordered to be laid down at Devonport, averting the discharge of a large number of workmen. The battleships Britannia and Africa, of the same class, have been ordered to be begun at Portsmouth and Chatham respectively. BURSTING OF A CANAL.

LONDON, Nov. 16.

The Stourbridge Extension Canal, Bricrly Hill, burst, flooding several collieries and brickworks, throwing hundreds idle. THRATENING LETTERS. LONDON, Nov. 16.

A- lad has been arrested in connection with the authorship of the (threatening letters of the Great Wyrley outrages. ROBBERY OF JEWELLERY,; LONDON, Nov. 16.

A man named Chariot has been arrested in London in possession of Madame Fougere’s jewellery. POLITICAL, BERLIN, Nov. 16. Owing to anomalies in tho electoral system in Prussia, no Social Democrats were elected for the Diet. RAILWAY WORKS.

PEKIN, Novem. 16

Belgians have obtained a contract to construct the Kaifongfu-Hoanfu-Singapore railway. British syndicates with mining rights in those districts are being persistently blocked by Chinese obstruction. RATE OF DISCOUNT. MELBOURNE, Nov. 17.

The Premier has received a cable indicating a probable rise in the bank rate of discount to five per cent. DAMAGES. MELBOURNE, Nov. 17. The Full Court reversed the decision of the Lower Court in the case of Martell versus the Coal Mines Association, claiming damages far loss of employment at Ouccira. Plaintiff is now awarded £IOO and costs.

- CHINESE RIOTS. MELBOURNE, Nov. 17. Another Chinese riot resulted in two going to the hospital and five to the lock-up. QUEENSLAND PARLIAMENT, BRISBANE, Nov. 17. The Premier states that his policy includes electoral reform, abolition of plural vote, aand extension of the franchise to women.