GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1614, 29 November 1905, Page 4

GENERAL CABLES.

By telegraph, Pjtesa Ass’n, Co»yright

London, Nov 27.

The severest gale which has been experienced fpr years is raging on the southeastern ooasts of England,' Mr Ha'l, mines agent, has been elected unopposed for Normanton division of Yorkshire, fn place of William Parott, deceased.,, A representative meeting of the Ohuroh Council, under the Archbishop of Canterbury, adopted a scheme of represeutas tionfor the laity on a council franohise, to be confined to those having status as communicants. A massive silver motor trophy, valued at £IOOO, has been stolon from the motor exhibition at the Olympia ground. A handcuffed prisoner, named Gillson, who was supposed to be the man con-* neoted withv the Burnley fraud, snioided by jumping from a train neat Stockton-on-Tees. The inquest showed that Gillson wbb the man who was sentenced as Edith James at the Old Bailey on May 22nd last year for the key registry frauds. Silver is in strong demand, and there is a shortage of supplies. ,Tokio, Nov. 27. The superintendent of the Japanese Army Medical Department reports that the killed and wqunded in the late war totalled 218,429, and the siok 221,186. The steamer Kutamarusank after colliding with the Fukunamaru near Shimi* nosiki. v Eleven seamen are missing. New York, Nov. 27. Dowie has seoured land in Mexico for Zion Paradise plantation. He attributes his recovery from paralysis to prayer-