GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1392, 1 March 1905, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

DINNERS' FOR THE POOR. Bjs .Telegraph—Press AssociationCopyright. LONDON, Fob. 27. The Dowager Empress Elizabeth ordered Lhe poor of Moscow, who aro estimated at 35,000. tree dinners for forty Hays, at her expense. ROYAL BETROTHAL. LONDON, Feb. 27. The Princess .Victoria of Schleswig Holstein, has boon, betrothed to the' Duke of Coburg. SEEK INK A DIVORCELONDON, February 27. Maud Donne is seeking a divorce from her husband Mcßride, at Paris. MR JELLJCOE IN ENGLANDLONDON, Feb. 27. Mr JeUicoe, a New Zealander, has been admitted as a member of the ban for the Northern circuit. CONSECRATION CEREMONY.. LONDON, Fob. 27. :

Prince Arthur of Connaught represents Kins Uiiward at the consecration 01' an evangelical cathedral at Berlin to-day. BILLIARD MATCH;, LONDON, Fob. 27. Stevenson, with 18,000 points, defeated Dawson,, who had made 16,300 when his opponent ran o.ut.

ROYAL VISIT TO INDIA. CALCUTTA, Fob. 27. All classes in India are enthusiastic at the. approaching visit of the Prince of Wales.. A SENSATIONAL TRIAL. PARIS, February 27. The Bonmarbini trial has been resumed at Turin. Nal'di testified that .Tiulliot Murri entered the house, having a syringe,, With, which it was intended toi inject poison into the sleeping Count's veins. Naldi remonstrated,, and he quitted the house,

[GREAT DAJIftGE DONE B,Y, FIRE NEW YORK, February 27., A fire at Stuyvesanfc docks, the terminus of tiro Illinois Central Railroad, New Orleans, did five million dollars damage. The buildings destroyed include grain elevators, containing one million bushels of wheat and twenty - thousand bales of cotton- '

EXCLUSION OF. MAORIS. MELBOURNE, February 28.. Mr Reid, replyijng ,toi Mr Sejidon, in regard to the matter of the Maoris refused admission to New ; South Wales, states that if the allegation is proved that the Maoris were denied admittance without a test, then those responsible will he severely censured? . iTH'E BRAD DON CLAUSE, MELBOURNE, February 28. Mr Watson objects to an extension: of the Braddon clausa as an undo-, mocratic hobhla on the people for many years ahead; CHAMPION ATHLETES, MELBOURNE,, Feb. 28. Shrubh is suffering from gastric influenza.: He sails for the Bluff tomorrow, accompanied by other., athletes. , FIVE LIVES LOST BY WRECK OF PEARLING, LUGGER. PERTH, February 28. . During the early part of the month a pearling lugger was wrecked at Ellen Islands during a cyclone The captain escaped. Five of the colored crew were drowned, MELBOURNE-SYDNEY TELEPHONE SERVICE, i SYDNEY, February 2&» Telephonic communication! between Melbourne and Sydney has been carried out successfully? The work is still in an experimental stage,. but it is hoped the lines will shortly be available to the public.

WRECK DR A) BARQUE. MELBOURNE, February 2ST. The barque Clan McLeod, which arrived from the "Thamea river this morning, is ashore at Nepean Bight, Within, sight of the Heajds,