GENERAL CABLES.
Press Association—Copyright. LONDON, May 19.
The Peninsula and Oriental Co.’s representative announces that he has secured the mail contract to India and China and Australia for seven years from February, 1908. Tho conditions embrace accelerated speed, larger steamers, and considerable abatement of subsidy. CALCUTTA, May 19. India’s death roll.from plague for the past six weeks liais been 451,892, including 286,777 in the Punjaub. ST. PETERSBURG, May 19. There was a scene of great uproar
in the Duma. Three members of the Right were suspended for a period of fifteen sittings for calling other sections cutthroats. Revolutionaries attacked and robbed a mail van at Lodz and killed one Cossack. Later a Cossack patrol entered Kntner’s spinning mills, near the scene of tho robbery, used revolvers, and indiscriminately killed 21, including seven clerks. Forty-fivo others were wounded.
Received May 20, 9.28 p.m. LONDON, May 20.
The Anglo-French New Hebrides commission has concluded its sittings.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2085, 21 May 1907, Page 3
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