LATE CABLES

Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 489, 30 July 1902, Page 2

LATE CABLES

ERUPTIONS AND EARTHGUAKE’S

A TIDAL .WAV!

By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright, NEW YORK, Jiffy 23. There have been two more slight eruptions at Sou Friere, An earthquake, accompanied by, a tidal wave, has I teen experienced in .the north-east of St. Vincent.

The cable steamer Newington, wording eighteen inileq north, reports .that the depth of tho sea increased to .one and a quarter miles,.

THE BRITISH FLAG,

REMARKS BY DE LA KEY

By telegraph—Press Association—- . Copyright,

LONDON, July 39, General Dc la Key, sjicakmg attfts-Icubo-sch, said that, all could oe happy under the British Hag, Botha said that the people had lost their independence, hut to lose the.r language would be a serious mailer. The future was in the /students’ hands’.' Education was everything, and il rbe Afrikanders educated there was no need to make room for anybody in the work Ij

’AN INGENIOUS SWINDLE^

By, Telegraph—Press AssociationCopyright, BRISBANE, July 29, Just before TattcrsaH’s meeting "an ingenious contrivance worked through the floor of tho weighing room, was discovered. By means of a string the weighing in or out of a jockey could he tampered with,

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright

London, July 29. Lord Carrington presided at a Mansion Houso meeting to raise funds to obtain vossois to bring Norfolk Islaud produco to Australia.

Tho King, in a whool chair, sboltored from the wind, on the upper deck, watched tho Island Sailing Club Regatta. Lord Lausdowno lias inviuod tho Chambers of Commereo to sond representatives to tho foreign office to considor tho China Treaty. The latter is well recoivcd in commercial circles.

Reuter’s Pekin messugo etatos that Chang Chiktung has been appointed Director of China Commerce.