LATE GABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 719, 15 January 1903, Page 2

LATE GABLES.

• GOSSIPS TALK. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Received 11.15 p.tn., Jan. 14. London, Jau. 14. Lonyany’s desertion of Princess Stephanie is denied. BIG DONATION. Frederick Quick, a London morehant, has bequeathed to Cambridge University sixty thousand pounds for biological research.

Received 1.2 a.m., Jail. 15. ANOTHER PLUNGE. Sydney, Jan. 14. The Government has received advice hat a million Treasury bills have been loatcd in London at par. OBITUARY.

Obituary : Mr Rowe, private secretary to the Governor. He was recently attacked with typhoid fever, aud consumption supervened. As fleet paymaster, deceased saw considerable service in Africa. He was present at the capture of Benin City, aud took part iu the operations against tho Niger and Congo piratc-s. He was also in the expedition against Arabs on the East Coast. LATE SIR F. SARGOOD.

The funeral service of the late Sir F. Sargood was held in Scots Church. It was attended by Sir E. Barton, Sir John See, leading commercial men, and members of the Federal and State Parliaments. Dr Bruce delivered an impressive oration. WINTRY WEATHER,

A heavy south-west gale is raging on the coast. The weather is almost wintry. VICE IN QUEENSLAND.

Brisbane, Jan. 14. Tho Bishop of North Queensland has returned from a visit to his diocese. Ho declared that he is impressed with tho degraded moral conditions of tho bulk of the alien population in the north. lie intends to proceed to the Southern States to arouse interest in northern missionary work. The indulgence iu vice, he says, is so deplorable that common prudence calls atouce for active steps.