GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XII, Issue 1085, 31 December 1903, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

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By Electric Telegraph—Per Press Association—Copyright. LONDON, Dec. 29, hi connection with the statement that the Government intended to ignore certain quondam followers, .Sir Aciand Hood has informed Mr Gibson Bowles that the usual whips will he sent, to him. RETURN OF THE VICTORIAN GOVERNOR. LONDON, Dec. 29, Sir George and Lady Clarke have arrived in London. THE KING’S STUD, LONDON, Dec. 22.

Tho King lias purchased for two thd-saml guineas the gelding Hackbutt. He ran in the Maiden Plate at the Punchcstoun meeting. THE SLEEPING SICKNESS. LONDON, Dec. 29. Two natives of Congo .suffering from sleeping sickness have arrived at Liverpool for treatment at the School o£ Tropical Medicine. MORE SUBMARINES. LONDON, Dec. 2D. The Admiralty intend asking that the naval vote include, a larger number of submarines than in any previous year, DEATH OF A WELL-KNOWN

ucjiiiir ur rr wmijLi-jviNUWiv' NOVELIST. LONDON, Dec. 29, George Gissing, the novelist* is dead, aged 41L, RUSSIA’S'ONWARD MARCH, ST, PETERSBURG, Dee. 29. Russia is projecting a railway from Samarkand to Termer, near the border of Afghanistan, A RUSSIAN FIEND. _ ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 29, Colonel Foss, the governor of a prison at Nikolejeif, in Siberia, has been sentenced to three years’' imprisonment for forgeries and inhuman treatment and cruelty to prisoners by, the rack and other torturesg

THE POPE CONDEMNS TURNING SERVICES INTO CONCERTS. ROME, Dec. 29. The Pope lias directed a strict observance ol Liie funner Pontiff's instructions preserving the use oi the (Gregcnan chant., ire condemned tile transformation ol enured, services' into concerts, and expressed a strong dislike for the use ol operatic music in churches,

LOW .CHURCH v. HIGH CHURCH. SYDNEY, Dec. 31). An. influential deputation of Anglican clergy asiied the Archbishop to (forbid tne use of illegal vestments. They declared tne use of such vestments and oLher ornaments associated .with the mass in certain enurehes .was causing unrest and indignation amongst members of the Anglican body. The Archbishop personally, considered the use ol vestments Regal and undesirable,- but felt bound to wait furtlier light on a very complicated matter. A MERRY. CHRISTMAS.

SYDNEY,-Dec. 30, IWo waterspouts, accompanied by un C -, Vi Y'thh, were experienced at VViute Cliffs on Christmas Day, and demolished the mining camps, and unroofed houses.