GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 826, 26 February 1903, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

BISHOP NELIGAN

By .Telegraph—Press AssociationCopyright. LONDON. Bishop Neligan, the Bishop-elect of Auckand, sails for New Zealand on March twenty-sixth.

UNIVERSITY HONOR

Glasgow University has conferred a !)(ctorsliij) of Divinity on the Rev. Frederick Langham, Methodist missionary in Fiji.

PERSIAN TARIFI

Viscount Cranbornc, in Die House of Commons, announced that Sir Arthur Hardinge, British Minister at Teheran, had been instructed to secure tor Great Britain a more influential voice in the alterations of the Persian tariff affecting British trade.

MR DILLON’S HEALTH Mr Dillon has been ordered rest for two months in Egypt.

CANADIAN LINERS. OTTAWA

One million and a half pounds sterling was paid for the sixteen Beaver steamers by the Canadian-Pacific Railway Company. They are to bo rim when the St. Lawrence opens in April.

PLAGUE AT DURBAN, CAPETOWN, The plague is abating at Durham LEOPOLD’S HOPE. BERLIN. Princess Louise’s brother Leopold is going to America, hoping to secure an officer's commission in the United States.

ANOTHER ELOPING PRINCESS CAIRO.

Princess Mahomet, the Khedive’s married sister, objecting to harems, eloped with an Austrian Count, She intends becoming a Christian, and to marry the Count.

IMPEL’UNIOUS GERMANY, NEW YORK

Germany has asked for a draft of five thousand five hundred pounds due by Venezuela in the middle of March, with the view, to negotiating for the immediate cashing of it. Mr Bowen declined to give life draft.

A COUPON FRAUD

The recently-formed American Tobacco Company’s prize coupons, issued by retailers, have been extensively forged, 'fhe Company, has distributed thousands of dollars which had not been earned.

HEAVY RAINS. BRISBANE. Heavy rains fell yesterday, seven inches being recorded in twenty-four hours. MORE PLAGUE. FREMANTLE. Another case of plague is reported. A FALSE REPORT, t MELBOURNE. : A’ further medical examination reveals that the ease reported as one of plague is not plague.

A POLITICAL SCANDAL

The Assembly considered Mr McKenzie’s report. An amendment of censure on the Minister was moved, on the motion for the adoption of the report, but was negatived, and the motion was carried by a large majority.

STRONG STATEMENTS

The Rev. Bickford has been elected President of the Methodist Conference The retiring President, the Rev. Dr Fitchctt, referring to the Bible-burn-ing episode in Fiji, said : “ 1 am tempted to say a word on the matter that, thrilled us all with anger, the spectacle of burning the Bible in Fiji. There is only one church that would burn Bibles, and that is the church that burned the men who gave life world the English Bible. It is the boast of that church that it never changes through centuries, and the smoke of Ihe Bibles in Fiji bears witness to the truth of the claim.”

MEL AN E SIA N MISSION. SYDNEY

News from Norfolk Island shows that the dysentery and pneumonia which, caused the deaths of four boys at the Melanesian mission is now abating.

M ETIIOD IST CON KERENC I'

Tlie Rev. Rainstord Baring has been elected President of the Methodist Conference.

VANCOUVEK SERVICI-

The Herald, in an article commentin'.- or. the renewal of the Vancouver service, says iL is not difficult to see that the refusal 10 give a subsidy by the Commonweal lit would strike at the future of our share in the Pacific trade

THK BIBLH-BURXING

Dr Brown, secretary of the Foreign Missions Board, in a speech stated that, both the Cardinal and his priests should he devoutly thankful that Protestant missions were far from a failure in Fiji, for it their precepts had not, been followed by the great mass of Fijians the Bibie-burners who outraged the most sacred feelings of ninety per cent, oi the converts would long ago have felt the weight of a Fijian club. If there had not heen an' outbreak over the present trouble, the Government of Fiji must thank the missionaries who taught the people to 'be loyal and obedient subjects.