GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 393, 18 April 1902, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

By, Telegraph—Press Association — Copyright., LONDON. April 16. —China has ordered 15,000 Irish made ploughshares.

The Queen of the Netherlands is indisposed. She is suffering irom feverishness- and lassitude.

King Edward's bithday will Ire celebrated on foreign stations on November 9th, and at Home on November 13th.

The Prince and Princess of .Wales have started on their homeward journey from Copenhagen. The Bishop of Peterborough was thrown from his horse yesterday. He is still unconscious. The Free Churches Conference in London, representing eight million adherents, has protested against the Education Bill as reactionary and clerical. Many meetings to protest have been held in the provinces.

The Irish League in West Clare has ordered boycotting. The police are considered as an army of occupation. The Swedish Antarctic expedition, under Dr Otto Nordenskjold, which sailed in October last, has returned to Tierra del Fuego, The Australian banks have reduced the charges for negotiating drafts on Australia by three-quarters per cent. A messenger has informed the Viceroy of Canton that the rebels surrounded, killed, and captured two thousand of General Lu’s troops in a narrow defile. The Viceroy has telegraphed to Canton for reinforcements. Seventy-three deaths from small-pox occurred in London during the past week. Of 1015 cases, none of which were ; vaccinated, during the past ten years, all died excepting 66, who were re.vaccinated after contact. WASHINGTON. April 17.—The Secretary for War has directed General Chaffee to inves-

ligate the charges of gross cruelty oil Filipinos, and to court-martial General Smith if the charges are found to be correct, MELBOURNE. April 17.—1 n reference to the London movement in favor of preferential treatment of colonial produce, Mr Barton said it would unquestionably

have a good effect on our growers. He cannot say until he has consulted his colleagues whether Australia will be prepared to enter into a full and comprehensive preferential agreement. The whole subject will be considered at the London Conference. ' Mr Reid says to ask Great IJritaiu to give us concessions, while imposing large taxation, showing no preference to British manufactures, is sheer impudence. He is not averse to reciprocal trade relations, but speaking on the wider question of imposing duties, said if Great Britain abandons her open-door policy and closes the free avenue of trade against the world, she sacrifices one of the strongest of her bulwarks. It is understood that the Eastern Extension Cable Company have expressed its willingness to accept a uniform cable agreement with the Commonwealth for a period of twenty, years in exchange for the agreements at present existing between the Company and the various States. The Company proposes to charge on all cables between the Comuionwealtn, India, and China 2s Gd per word on the has s of a reform terminal rate here of 5d per word. Obituary : Rev. A. IV. Webb, a well-known Baptist, at one time paste- of the Auckland Church. The Coronation Contingent leaves by the Rome on May 6th. LieutenaiuColonel Cameron, of Tasmania, com-

lt is understood that the 1 aeihCable Board are negotiating with tin. Eastern Extension Company in respect to forwarding cables over the Eastern lines should an interruption occur on the Pacific. The Board has also under consideration a proposal for enlarging -the original scheme by the contracting Governments running a branch cable from Fanning island to Honolulu thus bringing the r <rcinc cable into touch with the American cable to he laid to Hawaii. The Tariff Committee has placed ail surface-coated paper, bicycle {nuts, and brushes made from hair, theatileal costumes and properties ed within a given period, on the ire. list - _ i Hmt. Captain

Mr Barton is advised that Gapiam of the New Hebrides, The Administrator and Chiei Jus Relative U. factorv° tafte Commonwealth. No extensive changes in the methods of administration or office-holders W made lit present, ovnNHV.

made at picsrm, SYDNEY. anrii 17. The coasting steamer Kingslev has been wrecked n a fog at Norn-i Point. The crew and four passengers took to the boats. One boat, giiieer, is missing. When last seen .t 0 boat Horn the pecked Steamer Kingsley (containing the cap tain, mate, and engineer), is now known to be safe. There was one case of plague to-day.

ADELAIDE. April 17.—Flynn, convicted at, Port Adelaide of robbery, whose .sentence was deferred to allow enquiries into his statements to be made, was sentenced to twenty years’ imprisonment. He solemnly reiterated his innocence.