LATE CABLE NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 353, 1 March 1902, Page 2

LATE CABLE NEWS.

y Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright London, Feb. 28. His Majesty the King attended the. Horse Show at the Agricultural Hall. Tho King's Bench quashed the conviction against Pearks for selling milk blended butter containing twenty-four per cent, of water, on the ground that the wrapper on the notice exhibited at the Show, was a sufficient intimation that the butter was blended. The South African and Australian Supply Cold Storage Company has been issued with a capital of a million and a-half to acquire tho stores and business of the South African Supply Cold Storage Company to develop the trade in meat and dairy produce betweon Australia and South Africa. The price to be paid is a million pounds, whereof four hundred thousand is to bo in cash. Sir Edwyn Dawes, Mr C. S. Dickon, General Fores-tier-Walkcr, and Mr Willliam Weddel are directors. John Coop and Harry Connell are Australian advisers. It is intended to establish agencies in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Auckland, Wellington, and Canterbury. The capital is assured without underwriting. Syduey, Feb. 28. Arrived : Steamer Mararoa.

Williams, a plague patient, is dead. No cases wero reported to-day. There have been forty cases to date; eleven deaths and four discharged. Melbourne, Feb. 28.

The general feeling is that the guarantee for obtaining meat from Australia or New Zealand under the now contract is not satisfactory. Mr Barton has sent a further cable on the subject, but the contents have not been made public. Louis Thomas Newbiggen and Jessie Shallcross have been found dead in a paddock near Camberwell. Tkoy left letters stating their intention to commit suicide. The deaths wero caused by strychnine.