GENERAL GABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 823, 11 February 1903, Page 3

GENERAL GABLES.

; NEGRO CITIZENSHIP. EQUAL RIGHTS DECLARED A I FAILURE. I By Telegraph—Press Association— I Copyright. NEW YORK, Feb. 9. ( Mi Elihu Root, secretary for War, I speaking at New York, said that I negro citizenship, with equal rights I and equal franchise, had failed. The I responsibility for the welfare of the I negroes ought to engage the best alI tention of the greatest statesmen ’in I the country. ALL-POWERFUL MORGAN. LONDON, Feb. 9. I Mr Pierpont Morgan’s shipping I Dust has concluded an agreement I wkb the French Atlantic Company I similar to that made witii the North I German Lloyds. HAMILTON’S AWAKENING. LONDON, Feb. 9. I Lord George Hamilton, speaking at I Bradford, said that he expected the I Venezuela dispute to be settled withI in a few hours. I lie also stated that the blockaders I were not causing any delay. OBITUARY, LONDON, Feb. 9. | James Glaisher, the aeronaut, and I Edna Lyall, the novelist, are dead, A BIG FIRE. LONDON, Feb. 9. Tibbies’ Vi-Cocoa Works, at Watford, have been destroyed by fire. The damage is £IOO,OOO. A CHURCH MUTINY. LONDON, Feb. 9. The Rev. Mr Evans, vicar or St. Michael’s, Shoreditch, has resigned, declining to obey the Bishop of London. His Sunday school teachers took one-half of the children to the Komar. Catholic Church, the parents not being consulted. Archbishop Vaughan authorised tiie use ol speI eial English hymns. | AMICABLE ARRANGEMENT, j Bolivia agrees to Brazil occupying i and administering the Acre territory, I pending a settlement of the matters in dispute. COLLIERS’ WAGES. NEW YORK, Feb. 0. Operators offer the colliers in Illinois. Indiana, Ohio, and Pennslyvania 12J per cent, increase, POLITICS IN AUSTRALIA. SYDNEY, Feb. 10, A Libera! Reform League has been formed. Mr Carruthers, in a speech, said that the League’s main aim was to opposo the present Government, which had inaugurated a system of Socialism in connection with State works which scientific Socialists would he ashamed of, because it was associated with an element of corruption and political patronage, SLEEPERS FOR CAPE. SYDNEY, Feb, 10, The Cape Government has accepted a local tender for the supply, of half a million railway sleepers, THE STATE PREMIER. SYDNEY, Feb. 10., The Premier and his- wife pay a holiday visit to New Zealand on the first week in March. THE KOLAPORE CUP. SYDNEY, Feb. 10, Efforts to raise funds to send a team to Bislcy to compete at the Kolapore Cup meeting met with a poor response, ITEMS FROM VICTORIA. MELBOURNE, Feb. 10. The Federal postal revenue lor the hall-year is £1,197,000. being slightly in excess of the Treasurer’s estimate. The tug Kapiti, bound from Ojasgow to Wellington, has passed ,Wilsoil’s Promontory. . , Mr James Holmes, the New Zealand Trade Commissioner, has returned from England. In an interview, ho strongly urged the necessity lor the States appointing Trade Commissioners to develop the export trade,

If New Zea.and is to work ; out a gcea% destiny, as the important part of the'Empire for which her people ani country fit her, then she must have opportunity for development of separate interests, together with a supreme- Government of statesmen,for the guidance of her Imperial and international policy, who will be free from connection with the provincial affairs of subordinate State administration.— Kawhia Settler. Mrs Higgins, of Gisborne, is rather inclined to believe that several million pounds worth of Washington, United States, America, belongs to her, says the Free Lance. Away back in ISO 6 tho land, then a howling waste, was conveyed to her grandparents. Now, it has thousands of tons of skyscrapers, railway stations, car plants, and other things of great value, and Mrs Hig-o-ins, who believes her title may be made good, may yet be the first New Zealand-born millionaire. Mrs Higgins does not know yet how many relatives she possesses.

A Grand Assortment of Gent’s Ties in the Latest Styles, direct from the manufacturer. Best value in Gisborne.—C. ROSIE AND CO.