GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 504, 18 August 1902, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

By Telegraph—Press AssociationCopyright.

LONDON, August 15

The Durban correspondent. of> the Standard states that many Boers in the Northern Orange Colony are now learning for the first time of the British clemency proclamation. Obituary, : G, F, Vernon, the cricketer;

Mr Austin Chamberlain has been elected unopposed.. s Colonel McWilliams entertained the Australian detachment at the Grand Hotel prior to their departure. Thousands are visiting the Abbey daily, and £3340 was paid in admittance fees in ■ two days.Lightning fired a sixth century church at Swanscombe. Tlie bells were melted in the fire. A Norman front was destroyed. OTTAWA, Aug. 15. The estimate of oats, wheat and barley in Monitoba and lower Canada is 114,000,000 bushels. The Canadian Pacific Railway is unable to carry it all to the seaboard.

ST PETERSBURG, August 15 At the Pope’s request the Czar lias -pardoned Zierkouriei, a Catholic Bishop or Vilna, sentenced’ to life-long banishment for propagating -anti-Rus-sian ideas in Poland, and converting Greeks to Roman Catholicism. The Grand Duke Pobiedonostozcif strongly disapproved of clemency being granted. WASHINGTON, August 15. The National Geographical Society at Washington has engaged Herr Borchegrevinck to take two sli.ps on an Antarctic expedition, using reindeer and sleighs.; He will probably startin the autumn of next yean MELBOURNE, August IC‘ Friction has arisen between Sir W. Lyne, Acting-Minister of Defence, and General Hutton, through the latter publishing a scheme for‘ military instruction in schools throughout the Commonwealth without submitting it to the Minister, who keenly resents its premature publication.

CHILLED MEAT FROM NEW ZEALAND, By Telegraph—Press AssociationCopyright, SYDNEY, August 1(1 . !A firm of -butchers at Orange nrc arranging for the shipment of chilled meat from New Zealand. The suggestion having been made that the Mansion House should open a Kembla fund, the Premier has cabled that New South Wales is quite able to cope with the situation. The Annual report of the Australian, Jockey Club, recommending raising the Derby Stakes to 1000 sovs and, Metropolitan .to 2000 has been adopted