GENERAL CABLES

Gisborne Times, Volume XII, Issue 1077, 19 December 1903, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES

By Electric Telegraph—Per Press Association—Copyright. LONDON, Dec. 17. There is a report current which is generally accepted as correct that Mr Arnold intended to raise twentyfive vlountesr battalions in Ireland. Rowe pleaded guilty of the Great ■'Fingall mining frauds, and was sentenced to ten years’ penal servitude. Lord and Lady Northcote had a great send-off at Victoria station on their departure to Australia, a distinguished gathering, including all the Agents-Gencral, farewelling

them. The Sultan of Morocco hesitated to accept a French banker’s loan of fifty million dollars, fearing that guarantees will be demanded.

• BOMBAY, Dec. 17 £ A Mongol In Russian employ, a brother of a Thibettan toudda or high priest, visited Lhassa twice. The Younghusband mission intended to discover the results of these visits, with a view to asserting Britain’s prior claims. ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 17.

The president of the Oufa Assize Court has been assassinated. The militant Socialist group at Bialyslok, Russian Poland, sentenced Mctlcnko, Chief of Police, to death for being a member of the Jewish Bund, and a Social democrat for attending, a meeting in the forest. Two members of the Socialists executed Ihe sentence and then disappeared. They also killed two spies at Pinsk.