GENERAL CABLES

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4309, 19 March 1901, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

BELLEVILLE BOILERS. LONDON, March: 17. Sixty-five British warships are fitted with the Belleville boiler, which a committee of experts has recommended; Should be superseded, in regard to new vessels, by some other type of watertube boiler. CUBA AND AMERICA. WASHINGTON, March 17. The Foreign Relations Committee has reported against the Senate’s amendments defining the relations of the United States with Cuba. v RIOTS AT MOSCOW. ST. PETERSBURG, March 17. Serious riots of University students and workmen have occurred at Moscow, and the city is in a state p£ siege.. ANTARCTIC EXPLORATION. ADELAIDE, March 18. Professor Gregory, of Melbourne University, head of the Geological Department Royal Geographical Society’s Antarctic expedition, has arrived here from his visit to England. DE ROUGEMONT. MELBOURNE, March 18. Do Rongomont, the famous romancer, attempted to tell some thrilling adventures at the Bijou Theatre on Saturday night, but the audience made things too hot in the first three minutes of 1 his appearance, and lie retired. :I v 0 NATIVE “MURDE&Efe; - \?£ PERTH, March 1.8. A police party has arrived'at Wyndham, on Cambridge. Gulf, in the extreme north, with three hlAckfellows and- two rrins, implicated in the' murder,-of Mr Dufack, for which two other aborigines are already in custody. All arc mere children, the principals in the outrage being Tads about: fifteen and the gins only twelve.

... , AQUATICS. (Received March 18, 10.32 p.m.) SYDNEY, March 18. Thci Anniversary Regatta, postponed from January, was (nought off to-day, in line weather, . The yacht nice for the thirty-rating class was won by the Sunbeam, Janet second, and Magnet third. (Received March 19, 0.58 a.m.) ;• ; - - SYDNEY, March IS. 'With, the exception of the Janet, the yachts got away .quickly. The Sunbeam gradually crept up on the Eleetwing on the run to Mrnly, rounding tlie buoy in third place. Squaring forlionie, the Sunbeam ran away from the others, and led to the finish. Comparing the tinies, the Sunbeam won, with one minute fifty-seven seconds to spare from the Janet. ; SMALL-POX IN AUSTRALIA, (Received March 19, 1.7 a.m.) SYDNEY, March 18. A man named Thynne, living at Leichhardt, has been found to he suffering from small-pox in a mild form. He came from Calcutta by the Euryalus, the steamer which brought the Melbourne patient.