GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 275, 29 November 1901, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright

London, Nov. 27

Colonel A. F. Montinaro, commandin the Southern Nigeria Battalion, com mamls an expedition of l.iiuO men, win are starting from Lagos, West Africa with the object of suppressing slaver; and destroying a fetish town in tli interior.

By tlie King's command, militate honors were accorded the removal uf : Count Hatr.feldt's remains from Yictori; Station, en route fur Sommetburg. The condolences and comments of the British Press in connection witit the death o. the late Minister have had a soothing effect in Germany. Madame Melua inis engaged Arens, a tenor, and Bensuade, a baritone. She is completing her company, and leaves via Vancouver for Australia in the middle ot August. Mr Balfour, who was seriously ill with influenza, is improving in health. Constantinople, Nov. 27. A buried city of stone buildings, with roads and bridges, has been discovered at the foot of Mount Emratz, Aleppo. New York, Nov. 27. Twenty-four people were killed and 2.7 injured by a boiler explosion at an injector | factory, Detroit. ( Sydney, Nov. 28. j Tito New South Wales iiugby Union ! have invited the New Zealantf and j Queensland Unions to attend a conference i at Sydney in February during the fourth test cricket match. The threatened strike of tramway employes has been averted by tlie union accepting tlie Government proposal. The eight hours system will come into operation in July next. Melbourne, Nov. 28. The racehorses Torradin and ILautvilliers liavo been shipped en route to South America. In tlie State Assembly, Mr Irvine moved a vote of want of confidence, his chief indictment being that the Government itad not carried out Parliamentary reform. The progress of the debate was adjourned. Hobart, Nov. 28. At the Axemen’s Carnival the world's champion chop blocks was won by Blanc, of Victoria.