GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 278, 3 December 1901, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

By Telegraph. Press Association. Copyright London, Dee. 1.

The Anglo-German press declare that Sir H. Campbell-Bannerman was the chief cause of the Anglophobia in Germany.

The Times' Paris correspondent states that the Caucasian officials have been instructed to compel the naturalisation of forty thousand Armenian refugees.

Gilmour, a well-known Victorian criminal, has been sentenced to penal servitude for life for a murderous assault oil Louisa Kolb. The trial created a sonsation in Paris.

Mr Balfour is recovering. Tho fever has left him, but he is in a weak condition.

Vienna, Dec. 1. As a sequel to the duel connected with a social scandal, the redoubtable Herr Wolff, leader of the Pan-Germans in the Austrian Reichsrath, has withdrawn permanently from that Chamber. Sydney, Dec. 2. Sir Henry Berkeley, Chiof Justice of Fiji, is a passenger for New Zealand by the Warrimoo.

An amended Factories Bill has boon circulated. It provides for a minimum wage in a modest form. No one to bo employed in a factory shall receive less than half-a-crown a week. It provents the giving and taking of a bonus for employing a female as an apprentice or improver. It gives attention to tho extinguishing of fires in factories and means of escape from factories and hotels. Melbourne, Dec. 2. The directors of the Monte do Piote Company, as the result of investigations, have discovered misappropriations amounting to £16,300.