LATE CABLE NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 356, 5 March 1902, Page 2

LATE CABLE NEWS.

SUBVKNTIONING VKSSELS, By Telfgraph. Press A;3oeiation. Copyright LONDON. March 3.—The Admiralty has subventioned eighteen instead of seven private cruisers, and control thirtytwo vessels instead of seventeen without pay. MISCHIEF IN SOUDAN. An intercepted letter shows that Senoussi is urging the new Sultan at Dttrfur, Eastern Soudan, to hold aloof ;tom the British. REBELLION IN CHINA. A thousand Chinese soldiers have joined the rebellion at Mailing. Mr Conger has warned Prince Citing that it is expected the rebellion will lie speedily suppressed and foreigners protected. GERMANY’S DENIAL. It is seini-ollicially denied in Berlin that Germany is negotiating for exclusive mining concessions in Shanghai. SUGAR BOUNTIES. The Times Brussels correspondent says that the Powers have agreed to abolish all bounties on sugar, and reduce the surtax to six francs per hundred kilos, to check over-production -..util September, PJO3, when it will convenientlv become operative. The British delegates were reluctant to wreck the Conference. It is understood that Great Britain will not adopt a preferential tariff in favor of the colonies producing cane sugar.

FRAUDULENT 11 SPIRITISTS

BERLIN. A detective at Berlin nas arrested Frau Botlie, ami other “ spiritists,” for mechanically producing a deception known as “ Flowers from the spirit world.” ACCIDENT TO FRENCH PREMIER PARIS. March 2 —The small bone of M. Rousseau’s shoulder was broken by the accident when the French Premier’s carriage collided with a tramcar. The patient is progressing favorably.