GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1597, 8 November 1905, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

By telegraph, Press Aas’n, Copyright London, Nov. 6. j Mr E. B. Haldane has been elected Lord Iteotor of Edinburgh University.’ Mr. Asquith has been elected Lord Eootor of Glasgow by 866 votes; against 655 polled by the Marquis of Linlithgow. ' ' ' , ' ' • ! Berlin, Nov 6. Germany builds a new naval base in the North Sea and widens the Kiel Canal. Constantinople, Nov. 6, At the instance of tho Vatican, the Superior Franciscan, missions in Constantinople have renounced French protection in favor of Italian. Atheas, Nov. 6. . The insurgents at Crete have surrendered.

Pekin, Nov. 8. Haichow has been opened to foreign trade under British and American pressure, in order to’prevent Germany obtaining exclusive rights. Mr Lyttelton, replying to Mr J. H. Lockhart,’ British Commissioner at Weihaiwei,’ says ;Great Britain does not. consider the result of the war affoots the tenure of Weihaiwei. , . \

. Vlonna, Novi 6. The gendarmes at .Vienna did not interfere with the universal suffrage demonstration. Bed flags were hoisted over the Beiohsrath. There were demonstrations at Prague and other Bohemian towns (in. favor of the suf. frage.

Paris, Nov. 6. The Aurora declares that Germany will first obtain economic possession of Antwerp and Eotterdam before annexing them. The Maritime Court at Marseilles sentenced the boatswain and chief engineer of the steamer Gael to 10 months’ imprisonment, the boatswain’s mate to five months; and 13 seamen tb three months, for refusing to obey orders. The Seamen’s Congress at Cette demands their liberation on the grounds that the Gael was unseat worthy.

Sydney, Nov. 7. A good deal of damage has been done near Grafton and in other parts of the Northern Eiver districts by bush fires.

Seafaring men are inclined to the belief that the dismasted vessel sighted by the Iquique is the barquentine In* dromeda, bound from Eureka to Sydney. y