GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 345, 20 February 1902, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright LONDON, Feb. IS. Timothy Morgan, commission agent, was sentenced to ten years’ penal servitude at Brighton for blackmailing Thomas Goodman, Clerk of the Magis-

trate’s Court in Sussex. The Times says Mr Barton’s remarks on the South African settlement at tlie Melbourne war demonstration were most significant, also the condemnation of the lewd conspiracy of calumny by Germans at meetings held in Cape Colony and Natal. The House of Cords rejected Baron Newton’s Bill repealing tiie conscience clause in the Vaccination Act by 52 to 32 votes, chiefly because the 1898 Act expires next year.

Obituaries : The Rev. Newman Hall, and Mr Palcliett Martin, author. In the House of Commons, Mr Chamberlain, replying to Mr Caine, member for Camborne, said be had not seen a copy of the memorial of the Bengal Chamber of Commerce addressed to Lord Curzon regarding the employment- of Lascars on mail boats. He added : “We cannot prescribe the conditions the Australian Commonwealth should require in mail contracts.”

The capital of the Imperial- Tobacco Company, consisting of fifteen millions, with a public issue of three millions iii shares and a million in debentures, was covered two-fold. Lord Rosebery, in some incidental remarks, said he would willingly sacrifice some of his predileqtions for the sake of continuity of the foreign policy of the nation. He impressed foreign critics of England with the admirable public spirit. Shares in Australian and New Zealand . -mortgage companies are unchanged. PERTH, Feb. 19.

By the s.s. China there were shipped fifty- .ihousand sovereigns to India and ninety-seven thousand of bullion to London.

~ ADELAIDE, Feb. 19. Mr Homburg has resigned the leadership of the Opposition in the State Assembly. Mr Darling lias been elected to the position. The steamer Agapanthus has been

towed into port with a broken propeller, after drifting two days.

MELBOURNE, Feb. 19. General Hutton, speaking at a dinner given him by the Federal Ministry on the defence of the Empire, said similarly the defence of Australia could only be achieved by offensive operations. In addition to the local defence force they must have a field force available for military operations whenever required. He paid a high tribute to the Australian, New Zealand, and Canadian troops. He believed that if Australia decided to put in the field a force of, say, twenty thousand such men, whether for the protection of Australian soil or the defence of Australian interests else- - where, such a force would prove a controlling factor in any campaign. Mr Barton endorsed the remarks in reference to the need for preparedness. He said the men shipped away to deiend Australian interests must be prepared to take their share in all matters that affected the integrity of the Empire. By this lie did not mean that they must he ready to jump into every war. A. savings bank loan of one hundred thousand at 31 per cent, has been lloated. The public took thirty-two thousand, and the Saving Bank Commissioners the balance. The loan averaged £99 10s 3d. Mr Reynolds, Australian manager oi (lie Pacific cable, has arrived. He discussed matters in connection with the cable with Mr Barton.