GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 291, 16 December 1901, Page 4

GENERAL CABLES.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright LONDON, Dec. 14, Delarey’s commandants had a mcabig in l.ichenburg district. Some if ] 'hem favored .surrender if ilie farmhouses were rebuilt. Deiarey declared that, it was hopeless to ask this, (ireai Britain insistinu: on uneoiiditional surrender. Another conference of commandants will shortly ne held. Oeueral Bruce Hamilton, BrigadarOeneral Sir Henry Rawlinson. and Colonel Williams co-opera'ed and captured 141 prisoners belonging to Grohelaar's commando. They also captured lipio cattle, several families and a quant it v of waggons and carts, hut Grobelaar estaped. The execution of fifteen Burgher Scouts was in pursuance of Both; s proclamation of November lath (hat lie would shoot all ex-burghers assisting the British. A large body of Boers failed t ; cross the railway westwards of Wondtrfontein, ami abandoned a cart-toad of train-wrecking material. Colonel DuUnell, in making surprise visits to farm houses in ilarrisnnth district, captured 24 Boers abed. Mr Lloyd George, Liberal member of the House of Commons for Carnarvon, in the course of a speech, said 1 lie speedy termination of the war rested on the necessity for recognising that British people were resol'..: l that annexation was inevitable. LONDON, Dec, 13. The Lomloi’ Corporation is printing Ihe Prince of Wales’ recent Guildhall speech. The Agcnts-General will distribute it in the colonies. HOME, Dec. Vi. Lord Cmrie, British Minister at Home, and his start, attended a requiem mast at the English Catholic Church at Home for the soldiers who have fuller: in the war. English, Scottish, ono Canadian colleges gave! assistance, hut the Irish College was not represented. CONSTANTINOPLE, Dec. 13. The Porte lias demanded the expulsion of Dalmud Mahmud, the .Sultan's son-in-law from the island of Corfu, where he had taken refuge. ADELAIDE. Dec. 14. The Ortonn lias been allowed to proceed, on the understanding tint the company will pay duty i.n the ";tispined "stores, and accept the servLe c.l any suit brought for lire celt o; the ' " SYDNEY, Dec. 14. ’ he Government Statistician est ■ nates that 0 <• New South Wales nop of wheat at 15,769,000 bushels, an average of 12. X bushels an acre. 1 here is a decrease of over 00,0011 acres cut for grain, and an increased yield of 2.2 bushels per acre as compared with last year. The Loan Estimates include a sum of £.'199,000 for repayment of 5 per cent, debentures falling due in .July next' £75,000 for the improvement of Sydney Harbor ; £IO,OOO for consumptives’ homes ; £7OOO for inebriates’ homes, and £20,000 for a memorial to soldiers who have fallen m South Africa. The Premier, m explaining the latter proposal, said it would take Hie shape of a hall where soldiers could meet. There would he an imposing vestibule, with the name., of the men who had fallen inscribed on the walls. The discussion during the long silting on the Estimates was occasionally healed One member declared it was not a man like the Acting Chairman who should he in the chair, hut a policeman with a revolver. Schofield has been committed for trial for stealing a horse and bull from Mr Hordern’s property at Hctford Park. Other charges arc proceeding.