GENERAL GABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1691, 7 March 1906, Page 2

GENERAL GABLES.

By telegraph, Press Ass'n, Copyright London, Maroh 5. Advices from Teheran state that Persia has rejected the Helmund award. Zippel has confessed that he shot Reid in the back, and buried him in the undergrowth. The body has been discovered. Capetown, Maroh 5. Chief Cornelius, with his tribe, horses, and arms, has been re-captured, A gang of coolies, armed with sticks, tried to enter a farmhouse at Modderfontein. The farmer, shooting, killed two of them.

Ottawa, Maroh 5. The last contingent of Imperial troops in Canada has been withdrawn. St. Petersburg, Maroh 5. Six thousand jnembers of t|ie industry and Commerce Association met at St. Petersburg, and unanimously resolved that irreparable disaster would result if the Czar’s promised reforipg were qal soon incorporated in the Ei&r pire’s laws. Delay cannot longer be tolerated without the greatest menace to the country and the dynasty. Sydney, Maroh 6. There was good racing in the preliminary heats for the Sydney Thousand. Plunket secured a place. Melbourne, Mr.rch 0. Mr Doakin is surprised that no official information has been received of the reported New Hebrides settlement, seeing that Australia has special interests in the matter, and had asked to bo represented on the Commission. Perth, March 6. Another plague patient is dead at Geraldton,