LATE CABLES

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 811, 28 January 1903, Page 2

LATE CABLES

BURGHERS WELCOME TO MR CHAMBERLAIN. By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright. Received II p.in., January 28th. CAPETOWN, January 27. 7he burghers at Licht-enhurgh and Ottosl.oop cordially welcomed Mr Chamberlain, who stated that Sir Ali'i'3l Milner was about to issue a piodamaiion with the object, of speedily finishing the compensation questi j.-i. General De la Key promised to do his utmost to help, and added that, now all differences had been removed, ail ought to unite to repair the ravages o.‘ war.

AMEER OF AFGHANISTAN. CALCUTTA, Jan. 27. The Ameer of Afghanistan has expressed a desire to visit Lord Cuizon.

VENEZUELA BLOCKADE. At BERLIN, Jan. 27. |®' It is officially announced in Berlin I tnV, Germany, Great Britain, and I Italy have agreed to raise the block- 1 a-i? as soon as the agreement is concluded with Mr Bowen. Germany admits that, the guarantee fund offered 1 by Mr Bowen on behalf of Venezuela 1 is not inadequate. I NEW YORK, Jan. 27. I American official opinion expects I Great Britain to distinctly disavow H Germany’s reckless violence. Certain Ig| Amci iean banks are disposed to ad- 1 n varcG Venezuela sufficient to enable q he - raising the blockade. It is un- l a , officially stated that Mr Bowen offers p thirty per cent of the Customs at J t: Puerto Cabello and La Guayra, to be Q collected by a joint-committee of the 1 1 Powers concerned. t Tile British naval authorities at La v Out-yra report that the blockade was 1 t

raised on Wednesday. ‘ 1 [ LOVE IS BLIND. c VIENNA, January 27. I 1 Archduke Eugene of Austria, bro- I 1 thet of Queen Maria Christina of Spain, wishes to renounce his birth- I right in order to marry, a tradesman’s daughter. I RUSSIAN STRIKES. ST ; PETERSBURG, January 27. In an encounter in the streets of T'.msk between Cossacks ano three thousand railway strikers, the Cossack' repeatedly charged with lance I aud sword, killing and wounding hundreds. Several Cossacks were killed 1 and twenty wounded. OUTBREAK AT DURBAN, CAPETOWN, January 27. Fcrty-two cases of plague have oc- I cuircu at Durbau, 27 proving fatal, I _ ALASKAN BOUNDARY. NEW YORK, January 27. America has agreed to Skagway ana Dyca being included in the sphere of the. Alaskan boundary. Arbitration in reference to the matter has been maue to Canada, with a view to her I being represented on the Commission. AFFAIRS IN CHINA. LONDON, January 27. Groan Britain, America, and France have protested against, the appointment. of Yuiiensauo, as Governor of Shansi, on the ground of his complicity in the missionary, massacres in Hi. r-an, (Received 1.2 a.m., January 23.). LONDON, January 27^ A. great lire is raging at Coluey Hatch Asylum, near London. It is reported there have been ‘ many, deaths.

LATEST. MESSAGES, (Received 1 a.m., January, 28.) oYDNEY, January 27, At the wool sales, there was strong competition at last week’s rates. Gicasy sold to I2id, scoured 20Jd, MELBOURNE, January 27, The Rome has shipped £35,000 in specie lor India. New:; lias been received of the death in London ol Mr J. A, Ewcn, partner in the arm of Sargood, Bunder and Company.