GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 140, 24 June 1901, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright St. Petersburg, June 21. The Czar attends the German manoeuvres at Danzig, and receives King Alexander and Queen Draga of Servia at St. Petersburg in September. Paris, Juno 21. ~ As a result of a public-houso brawl, French miners at Lamure, Department of Tsere, demanded the dismissal of 400 Italian miners. The company refused, and thereupon tho French expelled the Italians, who fled to Savoi, and thence into Italy. New York, June 21. With a view to meeting American competition, seven principal millers of Ontario aro combining. They are able to produce 3000 barrels of flour daily. General Chaffee, in bis report on the Chinese campaign, asserts that looting and indiscriminate shooting of coolies caused distrust of the allies. One Boxer was killed to fifty harmless laborers who were slain, including not a few women and children. Anarchists at New York have threatened the life of the Italian Consul unless he desists from systematic espionage. Madrid, Juno 21. Anti-clerical disturbances have occurred at Ronda. The electric lights were destroyed and the city thrown into darkness. Tho newspapers are full of comments on the Liberal sjplifc, and there is much political excitemont over the matter. • Adelaide, June 22. The wreckage on the coast belongs to the Penrose, lost 12 years ago at Cape Banks. A nurse at the quarantine station has developed small-pox.