GENERAL CABLES

Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 561, 3 November 1902, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES

TURKEY BACKS DOWN< By Telegraph—Press AssociationCopyright.; LONDON, October 31. Turkey has ordered the withdrawal of the Turks from the Aden Hinterland, A BANQUET. LONDON, October 31, Birmingham tenders a banquet to Mr Chamberlain on the 1-lth. All parties have t)een invited. RUSSIA’S GAMES, ' LONDON, October 31, In the House of Lords, Viscount Cranbourne stated that Russia’s communication proposing the establishing of direct relations between Russia and Afghanistan regarding frontier matters was received on February 6th of 1900. INDIAN CROPS. LONDON, October 31. ; Lord Curzon reports that the Indian crop prospects are generally favorable. Some 47,000 people are now receiving famine relief. RED SEA PIRATES.; ROME, October 31. Turkey has, handed over to the Italian Red Sea squadron three ringleaders of piracy. A claim for restitution ot property and indemnity for losses caused the arrest of the pirate ringleaders, PLAGUE AT SAN FRANCISCO. NEW YORK, October 31. An alarmist message, published in New York papers, states that plague exists in San Francisco to a serious extent, but the message has since oeen cancelled. A month’s rigorous quarantining is suggested. MAD RAYMOND, NEW YORK, October 31, Bird Raymond, a wealthy automobilist of New York, has been sentenced to six months’ imprisonment for recklessly colliding with a tramcar, aud causing injury to twenty-two persons. NEW ZEALAND’S LEAD, CAPETOWN, October 31. Sir Gordon Sprigg has introduced an Asiatics Restriction Bilk

A SUCCESSFUL STRIKE. OTTAWA, October 31. '['he longshoremen at Montreal struck for an advance in wages, and were successful in obtaining a fifty, per cent, rise. A GOVERNMENT DEFEAT. HOBART, November 1. The Legislative Council rejected the Income Tax Bill by a majority of one. A dissolution is probable. r A TRAGEDY.; ADELAIDE, November 1. Martin, a farmer at Dublin, fatally shot his wife. She had lately obtained a separation order, owing to her husband’s intemperate habits. lie went, to the house, removed his belongings, and quarrelled with her. FIND OF GOLD.; ADELAIDE, November 1.A gold reef has been discovered near Arituoga. Samples yielded 2 oz, to the ton, ” STUD STOCK. PORT DARWIN, November 1. Two hundred and fifty rams bred by Mr J. H. Angas have been shipped to New, Zealand, •A CHAMPIONSHIP, MELBOURNE, November 1, Miss Calder won the ladies’ golf championship of Australia, LORD RANFURLY, MELBOURNE, November J. Lord Ranfurly is inspecting his Mildura property.

Bowls is generally regarded as a game principally for the “ old cronies’ and in concluding a speech comparing the pretensions of the present race of young players with the merits of those of an older generation, a veteran bowler said : “ Here I stand, seventy year auk!, and I’ii play any man of my years for as many. pun’. Yer young howlers ! Hoots toots ! why I couid play bowls better wi’ nia foot than they can dae wi’ their hauns.” Those reflections on the present generation of ■howlers did not appear to at all discourage local enthusiasts, and in the ranks of the Master ton Club there are many promising young players; while yesterday no less than ten novices were persuaded to “ take up ” the ■game. As a- general. rule the game is really nothing from an onlooker’s point of view ; but yesterday it was 'interesting to note the change of expressions in the players’ countenances ,fis fortune smiled oil the one or frowned severely on the other. Then again the gathering was also noticeable for the fact that all classes of the community were represented, and freely mingled with one auother, entering heartily into the spirit of the game.—Wairarapa Times,

The reported award of King Oscar of Sweden in the matter of Samoa will not lie received with cordiality either by the Americans or by ourselves. The Anglo-Saxon powers will pay, of course, without demur, whatever they may think of the decision, but neither-power is likely !to a(Low similar questions to lie again submitted to arbitration until the international law-point involved is clearly understood. The Washington authorities were reported, in a recent cable message, to have already determined upon this course, and they will certainly find cordial co-operation in London. That we should be held responsible for damages caused by our intervention in favor of a treaty-Goy-ernment is in itself untenable and cannot be taken as a precedent. But ■worse than this is our having to pay for damage done to the very people whose intrigues fomented and prolong-

ed the trouble. This sort oi thing reminds us that we can never be secure against, foreign complications as Jong as any European power has ter-

ritorial interests or aspirations in neighboring -Pacific waters,