GENERAL CABLES.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXIV, Issue 4880, 4 February 1903, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

LOSS OP A STEAMER AND HER 0 CREW. ' (Received February 4, 0.35 a.m.) LONDON, February 3. The Norwegian steamer Avona has been lost off the coast of Denmark. Her crew, numbering twenty-four, were DEATHS BY FIRE. OTTAWA, February 3. A fire occurred at a Finnish meeting at Malcolm, British Columbia. Eleven persons perished and fifteen wore seriously injured. LORD SELBORNE. LONDON, February 3. The Earl of Sel borne (First Lord of the Admiralty) is suffering from rheumatism, and has cancelled his engagements. ME REDDY, M.P. LONDON, February 3. Mr M. Reddy, Nationalist M.P. for the Birr division of King’s County, has bean released a month before the expiry of his sentence for unlawful assembly. DEATH OF SIR GEORGE STOKES. LONDON, February 2. • The death is announced of Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge,, aged 84. LONDON. February 2. The Prince Christian Victor memorial at Windsor has been dedicated. AMSTERDAM. February 2. The companies have accepted the demands of the Dutch railway strikers. NEW YORK, February 2.

The Governments of the Argentine and Chili Republics have offered to sell the warships they are having built in Europe to the United States. President Roosevelt's message to Congress supports Mexico's and China's suggestion to ap International Conference to consider the question of restoring and maintaining a fixed relationship between gold and silver money.