GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 427, 28 May 1902, Page 4

GENERAL CABLES.

By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright. LONDON. May 26. —Chili and Argentina have agreed to retain their naval equipments now afloat, and to rescind contracts for the construction of further warships. An arbitration treaty is being arranged between .the two countries. Count Tolstoi has had a relapse, and is suffering from slight typhoid and attacks of intermittent fever. W. Avery Smith, an American, has for nine years been swindling numerous families in London by means of bonds offered as security with a promise that they will be redeemable in half a year, but discovered to be redeemable in five hundred years. Manchester detectives seized and disarmed a man named Edward Heaviside, who subsequently suicided in the prison cell by means of poison concealed in a cavity in his cork leg. The Manchester Cup resulted : Rambling Katie 1, Syneros 2, First Principal 3. In the’ Belgium elections the clericals secured a majority of 22, gaining two seats. Queen' Wilhelmina is now able to rest on a couch. M. Loubet visited the King of Denmark. American newspapers publish warm tributes of Baron Pauncefote, and describe him as a peace-maker and the friend of America. Nine cases of plague are reported at Majuirga, Madgascar; King Lewanica of Barotelland, whom the King specially invited to attend the Coronation, has arrived in London. Has Makonssen, the representative of the King of Abyssinia at the Coronation, has started for London. ST- PETERSBURG. May 26.—M. Plehivc, Russian Minister of the Interior, has demanded the resignation of M. Zuolianski, Chief of the Police, on the ground that he was lacking in foresight in not preventing the murders of MM. Bogoliepofl and Sipiagunc. M. Pobidonostzieff has curtailed his holiday and returned to Russia because the police at Wiesbaden would not guarantee his safety. FREMANTLE. May 27.—A man named French has died of plague. MELBOURNE. May 27. —At the annual meeting of the Chamber of Commerce several speakers strongly condemned the unsatisfactory, harassing administration of the Customs Department under Federation, and adopted a resolution deploring Lord Hopetoun’s resignation. The Government explain that the delay in taking over the administration of New Guinea is due to the necessity that the vote should not he passed. •

To avoid further delay', £SO.OOO for the purpose will be placed in a Supply Bill to be submitted on Wednesday! May 27.—Sailed, H.M.S. Archer, for SYDNEY. Auckland, en route to the Gilbert Group. Mr Langford considers that, if properly organised, there is an opening for extensive trade between Australia and Canada, without one country interfering with the local products of the other. He strongly favors a preferential tariff for all countries in the Empire. The Daily Telegraph, dealing with tiie Imperial Coat' erence, says it is evident that Imperialists at any price will make an effort to drag the. colonies into a permanent defence service of the Emp re,, and that so e of the Premiers are quite ready for them to be so made use of is more than probable. Apparently there are no limits to what Mr Seddon would gladly do in tiie way of sword-drawing and converting the men of New Zealand into conscripts of the Empire. Mr Barton may take fire by contact with the blaze, together with him, but by his own act Mr Barton does not matter, for he deliberately rendered himself unrepresentatibe of the Commonwealth by refusing to divulge bis views on this and other important questions^