GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1592, 24 October 1905, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

By telegraph. Press Ass'n, Copyright i London, Oot. 22. Tho War Office proposes to try a I short service of two years with the colors, or ten in the reserve. Tho exI perimont at present will be confined I to seven battalions. Tho French municipal representatives have returned homo. They wore surprised and delighted with tho cordiality of tho reception given them in England, Some Anglophobos boame enthusiastically friondly. | A piece of machinery, falling, killed Commandor Phillips, of H.M.B. Victorious, while directing salvage operations in connection with the ropair ship Assistance. Advice has been received that the barque Alliance, from Newcastle, is ashore at Callao.

I _ Paris,' Ook. 22. There is groat’indignation in Franco lat the Gorman newspapers asking I ■what her attitude would bo in the I event of an Anglo-German war. French newspapers are remarkably unanimous in. a resolve to strengthen the entente with Britain. St. Potorsburg, Oot 21. Traffic has been suspended on five railways converging at Moscow. Prince Louis Napoleon resigns the Governorship of the Caucasus, disliking tho dumas (local councils), Singapore, Ootober 22. In recent fighting in tho Celebes the natives lost 50 killed and the Dutch seven.

_ Ottawa, Oct. 22. ■ Sir Wilfrid Laurier has announced that ho does not intend to retire until the completion of tho National transcontinental railway in four or six years. Washington, Oct, 22, President Roosevelt, speaking in Florida, said the work of the Panama Canal was sufficiently advanced to enable him to announce that it would certainly be accomplished, probably at less expense than was anticipated. The United States ought to police the Canal district.