GENERAL CARLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 814, 31 January 1903, Page 1

GENERAL CARLES.

By telegraph—Press AssociationCopyright, LONDON, January 39.

The foreign Ministers at Pekin have protested that numerous blacklisted Chinese officials have been appointed to high offices, contrary to the peace protocol. Mr Asquith, speaking at Hull, congratulated the Government on the progress of pacification in South Alrica- I-lc approved of the Alaska treaty, and taunted the Government with entering the Venezuelan escapade, He declared they were running •into serious dangers with a light heart. „ The proposed amalgamation or the Westralian mines, cabled mi the 2<ith, lias fallen through. Over two hundred nnd lilty people have been disfranchised in connection with the recent bribery at Shrewsbury. One hundred admitted that they received Conservative money. The body of one or the wives of Chapman, the Southwark murderer, has been disinterred after five years’ burial. It was marvellously well preserved. The preservation is atr tributed to the antimony which Chap.man is supposed to have given her. Robert, son of the late Sergeant Storks, Governor of King’s College Hospital, has bequeathed £60,000 to the hospital. Mr Bowen’s proposal that all foreign claims against Venezuela be treated on an equality has been respected.

CAPETOWN, January 29. Sir Gordon Sprigg, the Cape Premier. interviewed at Matching, denied that J — H. Ilofmeyer, a former leader of the Afrikander Bond, shaped the Government’s policy. He declared he had not seen Ilofmeyer for two years. Sir Gordon Sprigg admitted that the Cape loyalists were being boycotted, though reports in connection therewith were grossly exaggerated. PARIS, January 29. France has ratified the Brussels Sugar Convention. BERLIN, January 29. Princess Louise of Saxony has been deprived of all rights and honors appertaining to an Austrian Archduchess. The special Divorce Court at Dresden is holding sittings in camera, ROME, January 29. The Pope is appointing 45 prelates of different nationalities to advise the Bible Exegesis Commission. HOBART, January 30. The Premier has issued a manifesto With a view to extinguishing the deficit. he proposes a further reduction ot State expenditure, reduction of the number of members, limitation of loans to reproductive works, and amalgamation of public bodies.

SYDNEY, January 30. The Labor Conference resolved in favor of the amended Navigation Act and Boiler Inspection Bill. Woolford made a written .statement to the efiect- that on the night of the murder he met Grand and another man named Jones, They arranged for the robbing of the hotel. He refused to take any active part in it. Watching outside, he saw Long enter, and heard a shot fired. Grand and Jones rushed out and escaped in a sulky they had waiting. The Rifle Association has started ai movement to raise funds to assist in sending an Australian team' to Bislcy this year. Lord Northland and Mr Holmes, Royal Commissioner for New Zetland, reach .Sydney by the Omrali tomorrow on route to New' Zealand. ■MELBOURNE, January 30, The Age, dealing with the effect of the income tax on the investment ol foreign capital in Victoria, estimates that during the last seven years it resulted in the withdrawal of nine millions of capital. ADELAIDE, January 30.

Jn connection with the Stirling tragedy, the jury’s verdict was that Cullen was murdered by. some person or persons unknown.