LATE CABLES

Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 582, 28 November 1902, Page 2

LATE CABLES

WOMEN SUFFRAGE. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright London, Nov. 27. The New South YYales Women Suffrage Act has been tabled in the Houso of Commons, and ordered to be printed. PICTURES. Seventy-two pictures, painted bv twenty artists using Raffaeli’s solid oil colored sticks, have been exhibited in Paris, and much admired. MORE TROUBLE. Although the Turkish soldiers have retired from the Aden Hinterland, armed Arabs remain, menacing the natives. KRUGER'S FATHETIC APPEAL.

The Daily Chronicle states that Kruger has commissioned Sehalkburgcr to appeal to Mr Chamberlain to permit him to return to South Africa, conditional on his loyal acceptance of British rulo and abstention from politics. Kruger declared: “ My only wish is to cud my days in the laud of my own people." PENSION SCHEME.

A Royal Commission has been appointed to amend tho Civil Servico pension scheme. REDUCTION OF TAXATION,

Mr Ritchie, speaking at Croydon, implied that there would bo a reduction in the Income Tax in April. WAR COMMISSION. Tho War Commission examined MajorGeneral Sir G. R. French, lato Commandant of the New South Wales forces, and Colonel l’ole-Penton. Tho former mado suggestions referring to tho utilisation of colonial contingents for Imperial service generally. AN AWKWARD HITCH. New Y'ork, Nov. 27. American miners attribute tho rupture of negotiations for an amicable agreement to tho action of operators withdrawing after a basis of settlement was aecopted, LITTLE GIFTS. President Roosevelt lias sent each of tho Tutuila chiefs who ceded rights of sovereignty to America a watch, chain, and medal.