GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 241, 19 October 1901, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London. Get 17.

Earl Russell, sentenced to six months' imprisonment for bigamy by the House of Lords, has been released from gaol. Alexander Wilson, of New South Wales, has submitted to the War Office a scheme for an Imperial liorse-breeding estate iu Australia. He proposes to utilise 3000 square miles of the Northern Territory, at an outlay of £’670,000, and promises great results after the scheme has been in operation for six years.

Washington, Oct. 17. Colonel Roosevelt favors the creation of a portfolio of Commerce. Sydney, Oct. 18.

A conference of gentlemen intocested in horse-breeding discussed the development of the trade in army remounts, and adopted a resolution expressing the desirability of the Indian and Imperial Governments forming a special agency for purchasing direct from breeders. Other resolutions favored the taxing of stallions, preventing the export of good mares, and holding horse fairs with a view to maintaining a high quality. Paris, Oct. 17. The coal miners at Monccaux, the centre of the Socialist agitation, in the Departments of Saone and Loiro, have purchased 8000 disused Gras rifles. The Government are unable to intervene, since the rifles arc not military weapons.

The leaders of the French colliers assert that the adoption of the eight hours system would immediately result in a reduction of the output, causing the distnissol of thousands and reducing the wages of the rest.