GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 370, 20 March 1902, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

COMMON WE A LTH TRO OPS

By Telegraph—Press AssociationCopyright.

LOVTJON. March 18.—The Transport Custodian, with further detachments of the Commonwealth Contingents, has arrived at Durban. SMALL-POX AND RIOTERS.

The removal of a small-pox patient at Dunthrone, Forfarshire, was stoutly resisted. Fifteen “contacts” fought the police to prevent their own removal, and escaped capture.

OBITUARY. Obituary : Nicholas Chevalier, The well-known artist. A RUSSIAN LOAN.

For the first time for 18 years, Russia has placed a loan with Germany, amounting to 10.) million pounds sterling, MODERATION. The Daily Telegraph states that Russia’s forward policy in the Far East has been abandoned, in accordance .with M, de Witte’s' financial policy. “ MONETARY MATTERS.

The Bank of Australasia report shows deposits £l3, 868,000, cash securities £5,112,000, bills £13,930,000. NIGERIAN EXPEDITION,

British columns occupied Akwite, in south-eastern Nigeria, after severe fighting. This makes the successful completion of the campaign against the Aro tribes. The most truculent and fanatical chiefs have been captured, , CANADA’S SURPLUS. OTTAWA. March 18.—Sir 11. Fielding, Canadian Minister of Finance, has delivered his Budget speech. He estimated the surplus at 5f million dollars, and announced there would be no taritt changes. STRIKE SETTLED. .

NEW YORK. March 18.—The New York-Newhaven strike has been settled. FEDERAL FINANCE. MELBOURNE.; March 19.—Sir George Turner de,ivers the ' Supplementary Financial Statement in the House to-day, He has prepared an estimate showing Die receipts from the Federal tariff ior the year ending 20th June next will be £8,587,000, exceeding his estimate by, nearly £587,000, THE PLAGUE. SYDNEY., March 18.-The plague patient Fairlie is dead. RABBITS. The Stockowners’ Association petitions the Premier to exterminate rabbits, consequent on the great and increasing national loss to pastoralists. They suggest offering a reward of £50,000 for an elfective eradicator.

REBELLIOUS SHEARERS

Some considerable section of the shearing shed hands, resenting the penalties imposed by, the Australian Workers’ Union, have organised and registered under the Arbitration Act a union. The main objects of the new organisation are to improve tne relations between employer and eiu-, ployes, to settle disputes by arbitration, and to establish a union tree of heavy unnecessary fees for membership and highly-paid officials, SUGAR GROWING^ A party of expert Japanese, headed by Mizo Nitobe, director of production and industries, deputed by tne government of Formosa to inquire into the methods of farming, especially sugar growing, have arrived here. Nitobe predicts a large trade between Australia and the East, A FIRE. BRISBANE. Mar. 19. —A fire did. a large amount of damage at Heindorff’s piano warehouse, the insurance on which, it is understood, under the loss, includes £3190 in the National of New Zealand. and £1650 in the New, Zealand Company-,