LATE CABLE NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 372, 22 March 1902, Page 2

LATE CABLE NEWS.

BALNEALOGIST. By Telegraph—Press AssociationCopyright. LONDON, Mar. 21. Dr Wohlmann, of the Batli Hot Springs, lias been appointed Governnent Balnealogist for the New Zealand Hot Lakes. A DIVORCE. Lady Rodney has obtained a divorce [com her husband on the grounds of cruelty and adultery. FIGHTING IN THE SOUDAN. Mahomed El Sennssie, known as the Central Soudan Mahdi, attacked a column of Frenchmen in the vicinity of Kanem, on the south-east side of Lake i Chad. Six of the P'rench force were killed, and several wounded. Sennssie lost heavily. THE AMEER’S TROUBLES. - Friction exists ,between the Ameer of Afghanistan and the mother of Umar Khan, the younger son of the late Ameer, owing to plotting on the part pi Umar’s mother. Several of her, followers have been butchered. The present Ameer is the son of another of the late Ameer’s wives. A PESSIMISTIC .VIEW. The Paris correspondent of the London Times says that diplomats consider the concluding portion of t the Rus-sian-French declaration in reference to the Anglo-Japanese treaty to be grave because it aims at some object not yet ripe, and indicates that the FrenchRussian alliance has been widened so as to embrace the whole world. MR RHODES. Mr Rhodes is stronger, and his lungs are decidedly better. The heart failures are less severe. He has difficulty in sleeping during the heat. POLISH PLOTTERS. BERLIN. March 21.—The Prussian Government expelled forty Polish Russian students attending a secret pan-Polish meeting. Many fled to Switzerland. ROBBING THE POPE. ROME. March 21—The Italian secular tribunal is trying three Vatican officials for robbing the Papal treasury. It is alleged that eight million lire of the Pope’s private property has been embezzled. ' FEDERAL TARIFF, MELBOURNE. March 21.—The Tariff Committee passed the duties on ' sugar and glucose unamended. Several attempts to reduce the duties were defeated. {The Senate adopted an amendment of the Electoral Bill preventing the use of any portion of an hotel for election purposes. " A PRO-BOER. Mcr Higgs, of Queensland, moved an adjournment to protest against the sending of a further contingent to South Africa.; He urged that Parliament should have been consulted. Australia, he said, was sick of the war. Instead of sending troops, Parliament should say they desire the war ended by negotiations, and urge the British Government to grant an amnesty to rebels and self-government to the Boers. The Senate was very strongly against Mr Higgs, who was continuously interrupted with jocular suggestions and patriotic interjections. The motion was negatived. A Supply Bill of £262,000 ,was passed.