GENERAL CABLES

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4319, 30 March 1901, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

STRIKE -AT MARSEILLES.PARIS, March 28. The strike at Marseilles is in reality a Socialist movement engineered by agi. tutors. ■ : LORD SALISBURY. LONDON, March 28. The illness from which Lord Salisbury has been suffering is influenza. FRANCE AND .ITALY. PARIS, March 28. President Loubet will review the French and Italian squadrons at Toulon on 10th April. A SOCIETY DIVORCE. LONDON. March 28. Countess Russell has a divorce from* her husband. No defence was offered;. ; GOLDSBROUGH, MORT AND CO. MELBOURNE, March 29. At a meeting- of the -Directors cf Goldsbr-ough, Mori: and Co., Limited, a resolution was adopted’ reducing the capital by- £887,000. THE PRICE OF MEAT, MELBOURNE, March 29. The butchers have increased the price of moat by Id per lb all round, owing to the high price of stock. TASMANIAN BAILWA VS. HOBART, March 29. The Government has purchased the Colonel North Company’s railway, and is thus able- to make an’ extension to the Comstock Mines, . A SINKING VESSEL. • (Received March 30, 0.28 a-m.) LONDON, March 29. The Rydalmere, a Liverpool barque, which loaded at Marseilles for Melbourne, was seen in a sinking condition on March T9th near Gibraltar. MELBOURNE, March 29. The Rydalmere was an iron barque of 1166 tons. She had a cargo- of tiles for the Wunderlich Company. THE’VARSITY BOAT RACE. (Received March 29, 1 a.in.) LONDON, March. 29. The betting on the University boat race is two to one on Oxford.