GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1553, 8 September 1905, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

13y Telegraph, Press A'ss’u, Copyright I London, Sept. 6. The cruiser Pioneer relieves the I Mildura on the Australian station. The Psyche will be recommissioned for another term. Kiernan swam 500 yards at South, port in six minutes. The Congress at Hanley, by 765,000 against 673,000 votes, negatived the principle of compulsory arbitration. St. Petersburg, Sept. 6. ' A sensation has been caused at Moscow. Madame Witte’s nephow, KhotI msky, a volunteer in the Dragoon Regiment, committed suicide after killing his mistress. Berlin, Sept. 6, Fifty of the garrison at Konigsberg have been isolated owing to an outbreak of supposed cholera. Constantinople, Sept. 6. An Armenian named Vartanian, a naturalised American, was sentenced j to death at Stamboul for killing Apik | Undjiah, a wealthy American, for declining to contribute to the revolutionary funds. Vartanian was an emissary of the American revolutionaries in America.

I 1 Brisbane, Sept 7. I The body of a man named Lumberg was found at a camp near Cairns, brutally hacked. Kanakas are suspected of committing the murder. Members of the Primitive Methodist [ Church have issued writs against the Methodist Church, claiming property they held at the time of the union. A large amount is involved throughout the State. The Methodists state that they have tried every means to come to an agreement with the Primitives, but failed. A Bill dealing with the matter has been issued in Parliament.

Sydney, Sept. 7. Mr Deakin agrees with Mr Carruthers’ (proposal to refer the capital site dispute to the High Court. Arrived early : s.s. Waikare, from Wellington. She was delayed by a westerly gale in crossing Tasman Sea.