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Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 827, 16 February 1903, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES. A SHARP FIGHT. By Telegraph—Press Association — Copyright. LONDON, Feb. 13. Lieutenant William Lcvison-Gower, commanding 11.M.5. Harrier’s dhow, af;er a brisk fight, captured five pir T ate dhows, and sank two. He took sixty prisoners. CHURCH APPOINTMENT. • LONDON, Feb. 13. lUonsignor .Stanley lias been appointed Roman Catholic Bishop Auxiliary of Westminster. AN UXPLOSION. An explosion of gasoline, wbjch occurred while a battery was being charged on the largest submarine boat being constructed at Barrow, injured six workmen. AN INSOLENT MURDERER. LONDON, Fell 13. Edwards, found guilty of murder at Darbys, lias been sentenced to death. A plea of insanity was disproved. On hearing the verdict, prisoner exclaimed, “ Get on with it,” and insolently laughed at the sentence.

THE FLAG UK. PERTH, Feb. 11, A girl has been attacked by plague. A CAPTAIN FINED. SYDNEY, Feb. 1-1. Captain Gibb, o£ tbe steamer iUokoia. lias been lined live pounds and costs for permitting an Arab to enter the Commonwealth last month. NEW YORK, Feb. Id. 'i'lte discontent on the part of Italy and England at the Germans is explained in that Germany’s first-rank claims exceed those of other nations, and that, Castro virtually accepted them at the commencement of 1 the present negotiations. It is expected that- the protocols will be signed today. Mr Bowen lias arranged that Germany’s lirst instalment shall be paid on March loth, the blockaders receiving 30 per cent, of the March customs. CAPETOWN, Feb. 13. Mr Chamberlain demanded that the Dumb Republic should give an emphatic assurance of ioyuuy and condemnation of ostracism, and then the loyalists would meet them half-way. The Rand main reef lias been struck at a depth of 3300 ft, It is HU feet wide, and runs under Boksburg and Vogelfontein. A rich assay has been made, and the find enhances (lie Government's mining rights by a million and a half. NEW YORK, Feb. 13. Trepani, an undertaker, and Cirino, a barber, have been arrested on a charge of defrauding insurance companies. Accused went as robust substitutes for decrepit persons for subst lutes for decrepit persons for the insurance examination, and then insured the decrepit persons, defrauding the companies of two hundred million sterling. They treated the deerepits well, and induced the surviving relatives to give, evasive replies to the companies. SYDNEY, Feb. 11, Typhoid continues to spread at Coonamble, and more nurses have been despatched from Sydney. The sheds at the agricultural ground are lilted as a temporary hospital. Tho Premier will arrive in Auckland on Sunday (says the Now Zealand Herald). On Monday aitcruoon, at half-past four, in tho City Council Chambers, tho Mayor ■ will present the purse subscribed for him by the citizens, in the presenco of the General Committee, who arranged the testimonial, and the subscribers. Nothing has as yet been decided regarding Mr Seddon’s contemplated trip to tho north of Auckland, but on arrival in Auckland a deputation will wait upon him and ask him to fix a date for tho undertaking. As previously announced, tho Liboral and Labor Federation will entertain Mr Soddon at a smoke social on Tuesday evening. The delusion caused by tho promiso made by the Government that the Main Trunk lino would be completed by 1904 has already been dispelled (says the special correspondent of the Auckland Herald), but at the recent public meeting a hope was expressed that the work would be completed by 1905. Thero is very littlo probability, however, of the lino being finished by the end of that year, or tho year following. Some 70 or 80 miles of the route between the works on the Auckland and Wellington onds yet remain untouched, and this distance includes a great deal of rock country, as well as several largo viaducts. The probable date at which the line will be completed, even undor any circumstances, must remain a matter for speculation for the present, but 1908 has been mentioned as a likely date, and there seem 3 little probability of the end of the undertaking being reached before 1906 or 1907 at the earliest. The Sonoma’s cargo from Sydney for America was a very large one, consisting of copper, tin, hides, 6kins, etc., and it was considerably added to at Auckland by lines of meats, produce- timber, etc-, for Samoa; the first shipment of onions for the season to Honolulu, consisting of 400 cases, and for San Francisco a record shipment of flax (1600 bales), nearly the 1 whole of which is from the Auckland province; and lines of pelts, rabbit skins, etc. The Sonoma proceeded on her voyage at o p.m. on Friday, and is due at San Francisco on March 2, and the mails will be sent across to connect with one of the fast Atlantic liners leaving New York on March 7th, and are due in London on March loth.

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