GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 367, 18 March 1902, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

RHODES FAMILY ON THE MOVE

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright LONDON. March 16.—Colonel Frank Rhodes and Arthur Rhodes have sailed for Capetown. ROBBERIES AT TIENTSIN,

The Standard states that the prov:

sional Government at Tientsin have

discovered large river robberies of imported merchandise. The Chinese always ignored complaints. The chief instigator of the robberies, a wealthy comprador, has been sentenced to 12 months’ imprisonment and fined £ISOO sterling. A NEW ZEALAND APPOINTMENT - Dr O’Neill McKelvin has been appointed medical officer of the New Zealand Government Asylums. HONORS.

The King lias approved of the appointment of M. Baird Donnett, of Sydney, as French Consul- General for New South Wales, Queensland, and Fiji, and M. Louis Henri, Comte DeCourte, French Vice-Consul at Wellington, with jurisdiction over New Zealand and adjacent islands. DANISH WEST INDIES. The Danish Parliament, by eightyeight votes to seven, approved of the sale of the Danish West Indies to America for one million sterling. A BIG FIRE, A fire destroyed a sugar factory at the town of Roman, Roumania. A great stock of sugar was destroyed. The damage is two and a half-million fro npc i FEDERAL JUSTICE. MELBOURNE.

March 17.—The Federal Judiciary Bill, dealing with the constitution and powers of the High Court, has been Circulated. Its provisions are largely based on ~the American law. It provides that the Chief Justice's salary shall be £3500, and four other Judges .with salaries at £3OOO. CABLE STEAMER, BRISBANE. March 17—The Anglia at noon on Saturday bad laid 355 miles of the Southport-Norfolk Island cable.

NEW HEBRIDES, SYDNEY

The Herald, commenting on the New Hebrides deputation, says it is the destiny of the Commonwealth to be the predominating iniluence under the Crown in these seas. In carrying out .these it will be found that the surest way is in removing anomalies which burden our trade with those islands. The Daily Telegraph says if the New Hebrides trade goes on concentrating in New Caledonia, in consequence of Australia’s exclusive tariff, the French may build up such large interests there as would entitle them to political control on the principle of fair representation, which we went to war to enforce in South Africa. In the case of other island communities, such as Fiji, the effect of the tariff has been to divert trade from Australia, where it-should naturally come to New Zealand What the Australian policy potentially has to meet is the growth of French interests and control on the one hand, and New Zealand influence and trade command on the other, of which possibilities the most that can be said is that the best is bad, ■