MAIL NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 261, 13 November 1901, Page 3

MAIL NEWS.

FRICTION IN CANADA. iPer E.M.S. Sonoma at Auckland.) San Francisco, Oct. 29._ The London Chronicle is responsible for the statement that the Earl of Minto, owing to differences with the Imperial Government, is not likely to complete his term as Governor-General of Canada, to which office he was appointed in 1898 for a term of five years. The Chronicle also states that should Lord Minto resign the Governor-Generalship will bo offered to Baron de Blaquiere. It is asserted that the little time spent by the Earl of Minto with the Duke and Duchess of York is merely one evidence of the friction existing between the Premier (Sir Wilfrid Laurier) and the Governor-General. This is partly due, says the Chronicie, to the Earl of Minto’s refusal to sanction the Premier’s recommendation to the Mayor of Montreal and the Premier of Quebec to receive the decoration of Knight Commander of St. Michael and St. George, and also to the Earl’s interference witn the Canadian militia, as an instance of which he claimed the commission in the British army which Lord Roberts set aside for Canadians, as being his personal gift instead of Ministers’, Lord Roberts having eventually to step in and make the appointments himself, on the recommendation of the Canadian Government. I THE WAR. The opening of the third year of tbo war was the occasion of editorials in the London papers, reviewing the campaign. Although it is admitted that the reply of Mr Brodrick to the critics puts a better face on the situation, the critics are not satisfied. The Times said : ” The tone of botli Mr Brodrick and Sir Michael Hicks-Beach is excellent, but the official defence of faults and omissions of the past is lame and impotent, while the official promises for the future arc too vague to be very reassuring.”

HORSKS. British purchasing agents are active in securing horses in tiie Western States for exportation to South Africa. Over one hundred thousand animals have been purchased in the United States, and a large number in the Argentine. Many more will be required. FAMINE. Corrrespondcnco to the associated press from St. Petersburg, dated October sth, says: Acting under additional information from the Governor of the Province of Samara, tho Minister of the Interior has officially proclaimed famine conditions in tivo more districts in this province. This means that the bad harvest has already made itself so keenly felt that a special medical and relief organisation is deemed necessary. It is likely that the list will be added to from time to time during the winter. The Minister has also published a detailed report of relief given to seven Siberian districts. Forty thousand roubles were assigned. The present indications are that little information aoout tho famine will he published in Russian newspapers which is not given out by the Minister of the Interior. The papers have been given to understand that incorrect or colored articles about the farnino will not be tolerated, and Russian editors know when they have been warned. RUSSIAN EMIGRATION. The bad harvest in a portion of Siberia last year and this year have had the effect of turning a part of tho tide of Siberian emigration back into Russia. According to an official source nearly 78,000 emigrants and nearly 20,000 men sent by tho Peasant Communes to spy out tho land wont to Siberia between January Ist and j September 10th, and nearly 20,000 emi- | grants and 12.UU0 envoys rot timed. In j addition to the famine a circumstance that | deters emigration and occasions the re- ! turns of many is tho exhaustion of the available farm land. A fact not fully understood abroad is the parts of Siberia already occupied. This is true of all really good and accessible land. In Western Siberia recent settlers havo been assigned lands distant from railways or navigable rivers, or havo received fresh or marsh land which it would not pay thorn to till under present conditions. It is the plain truth that thoro is little more room for peasants them. Now there seems to bo room for another class. Government has reserved some lands for noblemen and sold considerable tracts to titled families, avowing its determination to strengthen tho noblo clement in Siberia. Peasants havo transplanted their shipshod methods of cultivation from one district and another of Russia to Siberia, so this virgin country is reduced also to chronic want and periodical famines. The presence of largo land owners in regarded as a good leaven agriculturally and politically. TURBULENT SCENES. A despatch from London, datod October 17th, says : In Northampton to-day and Wednesday turbulent scenes occurred. Hundreds of unemployed shoomakers, incited by Socialists, stormed the workhouse, demanding relief from tho distress caused by the paralysis of trade, attributed to American competition. MUTINOUS CREW.

A despatch from Berhaven, Ireland, of Oclobar 17th, says : Gun sights and other fittings of the British first-class battleship Magnificent, tho flagship of rear-Admiral Sir William Acklaud, second in command of the Channel Squadron, have been cast into tho sea by members of the crow in ordor to bring about the righting of grio- | vancos the crew complained of. GERMANY’S CONDITION. Tho Berlin correspondent of the London Times says: In view of oxisting commercial and industrial depression, Germany is not in a position to face a tariff war with any important customer of tho nation. Five months of such a war would drive the German commercial world to dosporation. DEPRESSION. A despatch from London datod October 21, says: The Stock Exchange last week was extremely dull, and wholly professional. Various causes contributed to the stagnation, among them being the indus- . trial depression in Russia, Germany, and France: American uncertainty touching copper and railway development, and lastly, and chiefly, the South African situation. Experts do not look for any serious break in the market, because tho speculative public, whoso timiditv usually precipitates a panic, is wholly eliminated at present, but they think it will be a long time before there* is_ any decidedly favorable reaction. Unusually good traffic reports have made Home railway shares the most favorable features of the week, but these have had no effect upon the general list. Money is still easy, but unless there is a prompt increase in the open market large gold shipments to Paris and Berlin will soon be inevitable. Mines are hard, and there is a general dullness characterising that section. A recent attempt to boom Kaffirs has failed. Despite the permission of the authorities for the starting of fifty additional Rand stamps and mining shares, all closed fractionally lower. •• MADE IN GERMANY.”

German works are now securing orders for locomotives m India. This is explained bv the possibility of more rapid delivery owing to the fact that British works have heavy orders ahead. Prussian railway authorities will soon order 400 locomotives. AMERICA'S WAR,

The FiiiDiuos again attacked a detachment of United States infantry on the Island of Samar on October IS, killing ten men and wounding sis of forty-sis men. who were relieved by the remainer of the company later. Eighty-five natives were left dead on the field. Another slaughter of Americans was prevented a few days lator through the vigilance of the officers, who discovered a plot to attack the garrison at Carbiga. In consequence of these outbreaks, and the general restlessness of the natives the American officers determined to drive every man without- occupation to the towns, where they can be under surveillance. Reinforcements are being rushed to Samar. It has been determined at Washington to send to the Philippines at v once large numbers of additional troops, and 10,000 will sail, mostly from San Francisco, during the nest thirty days. Twenty thousand more will be sent to take the place of as many, whose terms of service espire in the coming three months. There is much activity at Presidio, in vi«ty of this unexpected development.

THE KING’S HEALTH.' Despatches from Loudon state that the health of King Edward is the burning topic in social uud insurance circles. The newspapers mention that Lloyd's have advanced the rate of premiums on the King’s life from 1U to 121, and finally to 15 per cent. These dealings indicate that ordinary insurance companies are shutting down on policies on the King’s life, of which over two and a half million pounds have been taken during the last month. The friends of the King continue to insist that he is only suffering from an aggravated case of smoker’s throat, com-

plicated by gout. NAVY DEPARTMENT. Rear-Admiral Evans and other distinguished officers of the United States Navy have been dispatched to Tutuila to investigate complaints into the administration of Captain Tilley, commandant of that station. There have been charges laid that Tilley was seen under the influence of liquor, and that his conduct was unbecoming an officer. The charges were received at the Navy Department with surprise, sinco the record of the officer in question has been heretofore without blemish. It is stated that the complaints emanated largely from Samoan missionaries. CZOLGOSZ AND CRANKS. Czolgosz, the assassin of President McKinley, has been quite calm during the term of his imprisonment. He talked with the superintendent of the prison, saying he knew lie had to die, and felt no especial dread. lie said he would not like to bo taken outside the prison, as he thought the pople would kill him. Thousands of letters have been sent to the prison for Czolgosz, many being express packages of fruit and flowers. None of these reached the prisoner. Many were from Christian societies offering consolation, and others from cranks of all sorts. THE YACHT RACE. The victory of the Columbia was decisive enough, though the Americans would have been pleased to sec another race, with the hope of winning the final race on other than time allowance. In the race of October 4th, the final trial, the i Shamrock made the most valiant efforts. . The race throughout was close and ex- ■ citing. The Shamrock passed the final , line a scant length ahead of the Columbia, 1 which won by 41 seconds. This last race i was over a course thirty miles to wind--1 ward and a leeward course, the first fifteen miles being straight tilt down the 1 wind, and the second fifteen a beat U ’ windward. The wind held steady frou , the N.N.W., but varied a bit in force sometimes blowing in petulant gusts, am { then weakening to a gentle breeze, onh to strengthen again. The racers won sent away before the wind, each carry in; j a penalty for crossing the line after tin handicap gun. With varying fortunes tin two fought it out to tlie outer mark, firs one then the other forging ahead. Near i mg the mark Shamrock drew eonsidor ■. ably in tho lead, and taking in hei balloon-jib and spinnaker as she swim; around the point, it was found, as tin e Columbia followed her around, that sin 1 had gained one minute four seconds in tb y run down the wind. The remainder of th< ; . race was a grand battle between th skippers, and most interesting and excitin for the onlookers.