LATE CABLE NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 370, 20 March 1902, Page 2

LATE CABLE NEWS.

RESUMED DUTY. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, March 19. Captain M. Jones, of the Sixth New Zealand Mounteds, is convalescent, and has resumed duty. PRINCE HENRY. Tho Kaiser welcomed Prince Henry at Cuxhavon. SLAVE DEALERS. A Portuguese gunboat captured twelve dhows at Mozambique, killing fifty slavers and liberating seven hundred slaves. DEATH PENALTY. Harold Apted, who murdered tho girl O’Rourke at Tunbridge, has been hanged. GOVERNOR OF CEYLON. It is rumored that Lord Lamington, ex-Govcrnor of Queensland, succeeds Sir J. West Ridgway as Governor of Ceylon. A WICKED WOMAN.

Mrs Russell, otherwise Bessie Rignold, has been divorced from her husband on the grounds of adultery with Edmund Gurney, an actor. Mrs Russell is tho daughter of William Rignold, aud Russell, whose stage name is Guyton Heath, is a New Zealander. Both are well known in Australian theatrical circles. TREATING THE POOR.

The King, desiring- in connection with the Coronation at a cost of thirty thousand pounds to dine half-a-million of tho poorest people of London as his guests, asked the Lord Mayorf'Sheriffs, Chairmen of County Councils and Boroughs, and Mayors to make arrangements. CURE OF CANCER. In the House of Commons, in reply to a question, Mr Balfour stated that since the Royai Collego of Physicians and Surgeons had appointed a committee to consider the question of cure of cancer, with the prospect of success, It was not desirable for the Government to appoint a commission. ARTFUL BOERS. Mr Brodrick stated that Boers captured in the British uniform were liable to be courtmartialled and shot. Lord Kitchener had executed some. SWISS INDEPENDENCE.

It is reported at Lausaune, that owing to the Swiss Federal Council declining to start proceeding against the Anarchists’ Journal at Geneva for insulting the memory of King Humbert, Italy sent a strongly-worded note which the Council refused to accept, since it did not admit foreign criticism of its internal administration. SPORTING. The Lincolnshire Handicap resulted : St. McLon 1, Scoptre 2, Vir Norton 3. AN UPROAR. Vienna, March 19, The Pan-Germanic group created an uproar in the Austrian Reichsrath by shouting “ hurrah for Hohenzollern.”