GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 1052, 20 November 1903, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

A VALUBLE ESTATE.

By, Electric Telegraph—Per Press Association— Copyright. LONDON. Nov.- 18. Mrs Spurgeon’s estate was valued at £10,906, ‘ FRANCE AND BRITAIN. LONDON, Nov. 18. Unofficial correspondence on the arbitration treaty between France and Great Britain shows that M. Delcasse took the initiative, A BIG FIRE. LONDON, Nov. 18. A theatre attached to Woolwich barracks was burned, with reading and recreation rooms. Five thousand troops helped the fire brigades, and savod the whole block of barracks. SHORTAGE OF COTTON. LONDON, Nov, 18. Owing to the shortage of cotton, and the stoppage of the mills, the loss of wages in Lancashire amounts to two millions, REDUCTION OF WAGES, NEW. YORK, Nov. 18. Owing to l,he depression, and the ■Steel Trust’s competition, the Dominion Iron and Steel Company has given notice of a reduction from 10 to 33 per cent, in wages. 810 FIGHT EXPECTED. NEW .YORK, Nov. 18. Four thousand revolutionists are surrounding the city of Santa Domingft. An assault is expected. German warships are prepared to land troops. DANGERS OF TRANCE. BERLIN, Nov. 18. Prussia in three years paid bonuses to .148 Berlin doctors lor reviving ■persons in a trance who otherwise without medical skill would have been buried alive. DEATH FROM CHOLERA. BERLIN, Nov. 18. Tlie Duke of Hesse’s young daughter died suddenly of cholera. ANARCHIST PLOT, ROME, Nov. 18, Three Anarchists have been arrested at Milan lor plotting against the life of the Swiss President. THE “ SICK MAN’S ” TROUBLES CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 18. The revolt in Yemen is spreading southwards. The Ottoman troops were defeated near Mocha. END OF A STRIKE, MADRID, Nov, 18, Five thousand of the miners who recently struck at Riotinto have resumed work, and the Riotinto strike lias ended.

THE .CHINESE STRIKE. MELBOURNE, Nov. 19. The Chinese strike is believed do be near an end, the employers conceding the demands. The final argument producing this result was a threat to burn the factories whose owners did not cave in, THE STRANDED BARQUE, ADELAIDE, Nov, 59, The barque ashore is the Bannockburn. WANT OF .CONFIDENCE MOTION. PERTH, Nov. 19. Mr Pigott, Leader of the Opposition has given notice of motion that the Government does not possess the confidence of the country. He proposed to disclose maladministration in various directions. HEAVY WEATHER IN NEW SOUTH WALES. SYDNEY,, Nov. 10, A heavy southerly gale prevails on the coast. Drenching rain is falling The outlook for the cr eket match to-morrow, is bad.