GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 88, 23 April 1901, Page 4

GENERAL CABLES.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, April 21.

The Queen Victoria National Monument Funds amount to seventy-one thousand pounds. The Duke of York contributed five hundred pounds. An American list has been opened in London. Dr W. G. Grace states that the captains of the county cricket clubs shirked arriving at a decision on the question of bowlers throwing. It is believed the discussion will lead to umpires employing greater strictness, Sir Thomas Lipton’s yacht, the Shamrock, his second challenger for the America Cup, has been launched at Denny’s shipbuilding yards, Dumbarton. The Mad Mullah, with forty thousand followers, including eight thousand horsemen, who have ammunition obtained from an unknown source, encamped at Lassa on Saturday on the river Tug Bayr, forty miles east of Buras. The British are concentrating at Buras. Paris, April 21. The jury acquitted Vcro Girlo, a Russian girl who fired at the father of M. Deschonel, President of the Chamber of Deputies, and wounded a friend, Alexandrene Zeleine. Lisbon, April 21. The Portuguese Government have issued a decree that religious associations must be directed by Portuguese citizens, except in the case of associations exclusively foreign. Seven Jesuit, Franciscan, and Benedictine houses, and ten convents have been closed.