LATE CABLE NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 335, 8 February 1902, Page 2

LATE CABLE NEWS.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright LONDON, Feb. 7. Thirty lakhs of rupees have been promised by Indians towards the Victoria Memorial Hall. Berlin publicists are strenuously endeavoring to convince Americans that Germany, and not- England, prvented a E’uiopean coalition in favor of Spain but the Americans are sceptical. The Kruger clique is incensed at Dr. Kuyper’s fruitless intervention. Lord Salisbury’s speech convinced Germany that Great Britain does not intend to abate her demands in South Africa. BERLIN, Feb. 7. The National Zeitung says that Mr Smuts, in a letter, shows the so-call-ed English barbarities sometimes in regard to the Boers as military necessities, showing tiie impropriety of characterising the British soldiers as murderers and farm-burners. Smuts also confirmed the allegation that the British were forced to establish concentration camps.

SYDNEY, Feb. 7. One or two leading butter merchants are satisfied that no leading importers lend themselves to the falsification of butter brands. In the case of butter imported in bulk in bond and afterwards made up in tins there might be some grounds of complaint, but butter so packed would be for the South African market. The Swimming Association, in reply to a letter from the New Zealand Association, decided that it was inadvisable for a team to i isit the South Island.

Mr Chamberlain opposed Sir 11. Campbell-Bannerman’s amendment on the grounds that a referendum procedure to select a committee would occasion years of delay. Mr Gladstone’s drastic reforms in 1882 were considered by the House. Mr Redmond taunted the House of Commons with increasing creeping paralysis. No penalties, he said, would suppress the Nationalists protests against the oppressor. Disfranchisement of Ireland was the only alternative of Home Rule. Apparently the new rules were designed to secure disfranchisement.

German opposition to the reduction of the Tientsin garrison, and the restitution of the Chinese civil government of the city, enable her to acquire exclusive mining rights over a large area in Shantung. The Times says the movement for a preferential tariff within the Empire has apparently contributed to quicken German perception of the unwisdom of estranging the British completely. SYDNEY, Feb. 7. A meeting of citizens decided to form a branch of the Empire League, which has as its object the maintenance of the supremacy and integrity of the British Empire. Tho troopship Surrey has sailed for Capetown. Major Bartlett says the arrangements aboard for the men and horses are the best he has ever seen. In the cricket match England versus Bathurst, the Englishmen, in thenfirst innings, lost seven wickets for 414; McGahey 71, Quaife (not out) 131, Garnett 89, McLaren (not out) 74. ___