GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 50, 28 February 1901, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyrighi London, Feb. 26.

Tlio Blue Book in referenco to the armistice negotiations shows that Botha issued an answer to pro-Boer critics. The following casualties arc reported : Lieutenants Mahon and Code, Corporal Irvine, Privates Young, Victorian Bushmen, wounded at Phillipstown, English and German astronomers simultaneously discovered a star of first magnitude which flared up in the constellation Pcrsoue. , The Government, in roply to Sir Henry Fowler's attacks, conceded the appointment of a committee to enquire with regard to the naval works at Gibraltar, owing to the possibilities of long range guiis operating in Spain. Paris, Feb. 26. In the Sonato M. Delcasse complained of the injustice that Portugal w r as inflicting on French land-holders. He declared that he intended to obtain rescission of tho moasuro of spoliation. He added that Franco possessed means to inako her demands heard, and would not hesitate to employ them.