GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 174, 3 August 1901, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, Aug. 1. There is a growing impression that the Government will postpone the Declaration of Titles Bill, owing to the number of amendments suggested requiring consideration. Obituary: Mrs Brodriek, wife of the Secretary for War, from blood-poisoning. Hong Kong, Aug 1. Tho Boxers have placarded Canton, threatening rebellion, owing to the imposition of the house tax for providing payment of the foreign indemnity.

Berne, Aug. I. Gallieotb, an Anarchist emissary from Paterson, New Jersey, who was chosen to kill the Czar, and who was a friend of Bresci, has been arrested in Switzerland. Paris, Aug. 1. M. Gaston St. Legcler, a representative of Lc Matin, has started from Paris to go round tho world in 00 days. Melbourne, August 2, A letter from Maelaren states that he hopes to include J. Gunn, tho Notts bowler, and McGahoy, the Essex batsman, if Fry cannot come. He will confine the team to representatives, though he does not think it will be up to the Australians in bowling. Sydney, August 2. Monsignor Kelly, rector of the Irish College at Rome, has been appointed Coadjutor Archbishop of Sydney, with tho right to succession.

The Mokoia ran into a cyclonic gale after leaving \\ ellington, and had a stormy passage all the way.

Tho first payment under - the old age pensions commenced yesterday. The Assembly had an all-night sitting on Mr Leo’s amendment, which"was negatived by sixty-one against twenty-eight. The Address-in-Reply was adopted on the voices.