GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 718, 14 January 1903, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

MOROCCO AFFAIRS

By telegraph—Press AssociationCopyright. LONDON, Jan. 13. The Sultan of Acliin lias submilled AGGRESSIVE AMERICANS.

LONDON, Jan. 12

\ n American syndicate has purchased :-.thc St. James’s Hall, and is converting it into a hotel and restaurant.

DEATH’OF MISS LATIMER. •’ - ' LONDON, Jan. 12

Miss Maude Latimer, of Wilson Barrett’s Company, has died of ■influenza.

HEAVY SNOWDRIFTS. ; LONDON, Jan. ; 12. Snowdrifts ten feet have occurred in (he Highlands. Trainswere embedded and were delayed for ten hours. SITUATION IN MOROCCO;

LONDON, Jan. 12. Concerning the situation in Morocco it is notable that Mr Silvela, the Spanish Premier, declared that' the Fntnco-Spanish alliance-'is a ’.lucre dream Moreover Senor -Abarzuza resolutely opposed relations with Francq beyond.simple friendship. Both statesmen were unwilling for Spanish policy to alienate Great Britain. Three noncommissioned instructors have left Fez, homeward bound. . SERIOUS SUBSIDENCE. ROME, Jan. 12. Two arches 'of tlie'Prpcuratic Vcchhi have ’ been badly’ cracked, and a portion of‘the facade detached. It is feared that .the subsidences extend throughout..’Venice. COUNTER-ATTRACTIONS. VIENNA, Jan. 12. The Emperor Francis Joseph of. Austria”- has offered the Princess Im--perial a castle if she abandons M. Giron, with whom she eloped. SOUTH AFRICAN AFFAIRS. CAPETOWN, Jail. 12. Mr Beit has much improved, in health. • ... Seven hundred thousand pounds hasalready' been paid Cape loyalists for war compensation. The Africander Bond is stealthily spreading throughout the new coinLoyalists oppose Fischer's return. They are convinced that the Africanders. will use him for the purposes of sedition. , . , Dr Jameson has been elected president'of the South African League. . Mr' Chamberlain visits Potchcfsstroom, Mafeklng, Kimberley,: and Bloemfontein. ' PERTH, Jan. .13. Dr Jamieson, Minister of Lands, has accepted flic'appointment of Minister of Lands in South Africa, with a seat, in tlie Upper House, and a salary ot £2OOO, with £SOO allowances.;