GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 247, 26 October 1901, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright London, Oct. 24. The Recorder at Folkestone quashed the • conviction of Pearks for selling colonial butter containing 03 per cent, of boracic ■ acid. The Liverpool Shipowners’ Association have asked .Mr Chamberlain to request the Commonwealth not to legislate ■ against British shipping until the shipowners havo had opportunities to express their views. Advices from St. Petersburg announce that Corea has obtained ten per cent, of her loan of seven millions sterling from the First Japanese Bank. The Corean Government has stipulated to spend a portion in rifles and guns with Japan. i Sir Sydneyham Clark, the new Governor of Victoria, speaking at a Chamber of Commerce meeting, recommended Great Britain to frame an Imperial defence scheme and to ask the colonies to assist in filling the deaths. Fie suggested self-supporting naval stations as the basis of the scheme, and forces stationed at various points of the Empire fullyequipped. lie hoped Victoria would be made self-supporting in all the requirements of war. New York, Oct. 24. Mr Pierpont Morgan has purchased Raphael’s Colonna Madonna at an enormous price. Mr Duke, leader of the American Tobacco Trust, has declared his willingness to lose a million sterling in order to capture the English trade. St. Petersburg, Oct. 24. The Russian naval estimates for 1902 amount to 98 millions roubles, including 37 millions for building and arming warships. Eight fast steamers will shortly go to the Caspian Sea, ostensibly to protect the fisheries. Prince lvuropalkin has arrived at Merv. On the occasion of the releasing of six alleged Afghan spies he said the Russians , had always been friends of Afghanistan, and wished to remain so. He bade tho released men repeat his words to tho nearest chieftain in their country. Washington, Oct. 25. Owing to Southern denunciation of Colonel Roosevelt, tho President, for entertaining Dr. Booker, a negro Bishop, ' numbers of Northerners are inviting him . to their homes.