GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 486, 28 July 1902, Page 4

GENERAL CABLES.

AFFAIRS IN SOUTH AFRICA

]Jy Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright. LONDON. .July 2'j. One thousand Uuers are being repat nated week Iv. TJie nuinbc-r will soo:

lx? increased by two thou-aud. All will he home by November. Tne Ooverm: eiu .-io select mg promi-

netH Boer agriculturists to tour the colonies. and study scientific methods with a view to imparting instruction to their neighbors. A lirst party, under Wooslic-, of Orange Colony, and his wife, and two others under f.'apt. Cogson, start for Canada and Australia in a week, and a second party from Ceylon start for Australia and" New Zetland in August.

.MAIZE FROM ARGENTINE. By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright. BRISBANE. July 2fi. There i.-. some excitement- in the local maize market , in consequence of leading linns offering to hook orders for Argentine maize arriving m a week or two, at is Id, duty paid. The local quotation is 5s 7d.

GENERAL ITEMS. By Telegraph—Press AssociationCopyright. LONDON, .July 25, The Empire Coronation Banquet Committee have handed the balance ol .U 75 to tlie Colonial Troops’ Club. Sii; Edmund and .Mrs Barton and Sn John and .Airs Forrest catch the -stca lucr Aorangi at Vancouver on her next trip.

There is a growing feeling in Rhodesia against the .South African Chartered Company’s management without Cecil Rhodes. A local movement is afoot for annexation to the Transvaal, or establishing a Crown Colony Government. pending federation.

'I lie Loudon Corporation lias accep cd Lord Kitchener’s gifts, comprisiu a Boer J-ong Tom and Kruger’s fully equipped ox waggon. Thu King sat up in his chair yes to

day. Jle went for a short cruise loday. A Council meeting will be hem abort! to-morrow, which is expected to settle the changes in the Ministry. At the Bisley meeting Hawthorne,

a New Zealander, leads the list, in tin lirst stage of .St, George Challengi Vase, with a score of 33 at 00U yard and 35 at (JOO yards. The scores o the Australians and New Zealander who qualified to compete in the secon, ■stage are : Gawith, 3 1. at each range Forgiies, Galliford, Turnbull, and Bal linger (iIJ, King 05, Husband and Fet guson 01.

Unemployed have refused an offer of five shillings a day, to do work in the Cardiff mines. Boys employed in some pits in Yorkshire struck for an increased wage and a thousand threaten to cease work. This would render SO,(Kl<) miners idle. The men affected are receiving strike pay. The small-pox outbreak in London has ended.

Wool is steady at late rates. At swimming, Lane, of Sydney Wi

the lOtt yards championship at Mai Chester, by a touch in sixty second Cavill, of Sydney, was second, at Derbyshire, of England, third. A cargo of Australian wheat soi at 2t)s.

Many Boers have applied to join the party of agriculturists making an Australian tour. The Government will he careful to select only the most intelligent, One member of each party will understand the use of the camera.

HONG KONG, .July 25. A Chinese Imperial edict has been issued, sanctioning the scheme of Sn •J. L. iUackay, Brinish Commissioner, providing for the abolition of iikin duty and free transmission of natiw and foreign merchandise throughout China. The deficiency accruing from the abolition of iikin will he made tip by increased import and export duties. The Times Montreal corrcsponcrenl states that tiie Canadian Pacific railway, at Sir Wilfrid Laurier’s request has telegraphed an offer to establish u weekly fast passenger service will four steamers of twenty knot speed from Quebec to Liverpool, in the summer, and from Halifax to Liverpool it the winter, and a freight service will steamers of good speed, titled with cold storage. r I lie terms arc about a (tinarter of a million sterling. CABLE’S FROM AUSTRALIA.

PERTH, July 21k The s.k. Australasian took a 0 0,01 sovereigns to South Africa.

MELBOURNE, July 20. At the half-yearly meeting or me Broken Hill Proprietary Company a dividend ol one shilling per share was declared, payable on August 22m1. Mr Dcakin is sending telegrams to several States and New Zealand in reference to the observance of Coronation Bay. He is of opinion that- it should he observed as a public holiday by the Commonwealth departments, hut the

Federal Government intends’to have no celebrations of any kind. The State Cabinet lias decided not to grant a holiday as far as it is concerned. SYDNEY, July 2(5. The steamer South Australian ran short of coal owing to her protracted search for the Qiijrang. Amongst other t-limgs some fittings and eighty bags of oals were requisitioned to keen up the fires'.