GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 379, 2 April 1902, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright. LONDON. March 31.—The Times of India says that residents of Bandarabas, in the

Persian Gulf, assert that the Russian ’ steamer Korniloff has landed sixty thousand rifles. A photograph found amongst Jrimm’s papers proved to be the portrait of a widow living at Charkow, vho acted as intermediary, often trailing abroad to allow documents- to -e photographed, and restoring the originals in a few days. The Shah of Persia spends a week h London in July, and then twenty diys in Russia. The British revenue for the March iqiarter totalled £58,342,000, the Custtins contributing £9,916,000, excise £5,082,000, stamps £2,060,000. ProPirty and income tax for the year yielded £3,484,000. Ur Charles Cowper, of Sydney, in a letter to the Times, urges the Government to contract to purchase a certain number of three-year-old horses for ten years from private breeders in Australia at a fixed price. He consiiers good stock horses the best for South Africa. The University of Chicago has delated Mr Alleyne, of Ireland, as a special commissioner to study all European colonies in tiie Far East, including the Philippines. The War Office grants a medal without clasps to each war correspondent who took part in the South African campaign. Dn Kuyper, the Netherlands Premier, is again busying himself on behalf of the Boers. He has arranged to meet Herr Richthofen, the German Minister of Foreign Affairs, at Berlin, after interviewing Leyds, Wolmarans, ar.d Wessels. Crowded united memorial services to the late Mr Cecil Rhodes were held at the Good Hope Hall, Capetown. Troops line the route on Thursday, when a State funeral will be held. Four hands head this, procession.

The Aborigines’ Protection Association has memorialised Lord Lansdowne to unite with other Powers in call ng the Congo Free State to account for its inhuman treatment of natives.

Parisian shopkeepers lament King Edward’s abandonment of his visit to the Continent in favor of a yachting tour. They attribute the decision to objectionable comments in a portion of tiie French press. Macedonians residing at Athens are petitioning the Powers to intervene to prevent the Bulgarians perpetrating atrocities in Macedonia. The Daily Express states that the late Mr Rhodes bequeathed £IOO,OOO to the Oriel College, Oxford, and leaves Oxford University over a million pounds to develop a great scheme of Imperial education, providing many colonial scholarships. The Chinese Minister at Tokio advises that students be not allowed to visit Japan, because they imbibe revolutionary ideas. Chinese officials state that Yuanskikhais soldiers killed a thousand rioters at Tainingfu who were resisting the collection of indemnities to the Catholic missionaries. A .Yellow Book dealing with the recent trouble between France and Turkey shows that France threatened to retain the island of Mitylene unless Turkey yielded, Russia supported France throughout. Sir Charles Cameron, father-in-law of Commander Schlater, the commander of the wrecked warship Condor, declares that she was under-manned, under-officered, and unstable- She waslost early in December. China is insisting on prohibitive royalties in the mining concessions. The broad principles of the Manchurian treaty have been settled. M. Lessar lias advised China to grant Thibet independence. The Chinese believe that Russia contemplates the acquisition of Thibet in compensation for Manchuria.

BERLIN. March 31.—The Berlin Post, in an inspired paragraph, declares that a renewal of the Triple Alliance is assured. ROME. March 31.—Four hundred soldiers belonging to the railway reserves mutinied. They paraded at Milan, shouting, “We won’t go to Tripoli. They were arrested. It is believed that soldiers instigated the revolt. ADELAIDE. f

April I.—Under the new Constitution Act both Houses of Parliament were dissolved yesterday. A re-con-struction of the Ministry of four instead of six members has been made. The Education Department has been placed under the Attorney-General, the Land Department under the Treasurer, 'Mr O’Loughlim Lands, and Mr Brodker Education. The return of revenue for the State for the nine months shows a decrease of £330,000 compared with the last corresponding period. James McDonald fell from a bicycle and broke his leg, and lay three days and nights foodless and waterless. He is recovering.

SYDNEY. April I.—The plague patient Bott is deau.

At the cattle sales in connection with the Royal Agricultural Show, three Ayrshires, the property of Mr John Grant, of Invercargill, sold at 20, 32, and 4.0 guineas respectively. Estimates of the Show attendance are various. The official estimate is as high as 01,000, which is a record. Morten’s Desmond won the high jump championship, clearing Oft. Bin. Brakpan knocked a quarter of a second off the Champagne Stakes record. , , . „ The weather for the holiday in all' the States was line. MELBOURNE. The s.s. Gabo is still aground. She is being lightered.