GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 849, 25 March 1903, Page 4

GENERAL CABLES.

A MARTYR. By, Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright. LONDON, March 23. Stcyn, who is at present at Geneva —has suffered a serious relapse ol' health.

JEALOUS HUSBAND MURDERS A RECTOR. LONDON, March 23.

Andrew Moore, a farmer, has been sentenced to be hanged for shooting the Rev. William Bell, the Protestant rector at Kilmeere, County Cork. The prisoner burned down a barn, cremating the Rev. Beilis body, but ineffectually concealing the murder. Moore was jealous of Bell’s attention to his wife. LATE EWEN’S ESTATE. LONDON, March 23. Mr .1. A. Ewen’s estate amounts to £11,200.

A GENEROUS BEQUEST. LONDON, March 23

...Mr Robert Davies, of Menai Bridge fame, inis given the Welsh Calvinis(ic Methodist Miesionary Society £1.10.000 to extend its operations to Assam.

A SANGUINE SULTAN., LONDON, March 23. The Sultan of Morocco is disbanding his irregular forces. ft is officially announced that the rebellion is ended,- though the Pretender is still free and Tcsa lias not yet been retaken. Tlie rebellious tribes are unpunished. THE IRON RULE, ST. PETERSBURG, March 23, The Russian frontier guards .shot, three Russian women, crossing, the frontier to seek work in Germany. Two arc dead. :

AN UNWELCOME VISITOR.;

COPENHAGEN, March 23. An offensive demonstration is feared at Copenhagen on the occasion oi the Ivaiscr’s coming visit.

THE HUMBERTS’ LITTLE BILL'. PARIS,- March 23."

The official accountants have set down the Humberts’ creditors claims at four million pounds sterling.

POLITICAL WARFARE,

CAPETOWN, Mar. 23. A keen struggle is proceeding respecting further naval subvention. Mr Hoffmeyer refuses to act contrary to the wishes of the Bond Parliamentary party. SURPLUS, TAXATION AND DEFENCE. CAPETOWN, March 23.

The Cape Times anticipates a record surplus. It insists on a readjustment of taxation and further helps being given to Imperial defence.

'AS YOU WERE. HEW YORK, March 23, Peace has been signed in Uruguay on condition that the parties remain the same as at the beginning of the revolution, AN ACTIVE VOLCANO, The volcano Soufricre, in St. Vinceir, is again in violent eruption, and shoots forth great flashes of fire. The island is in darkness. Mount Pclee, in Martinique, is also active, EARTHQUAKE SHOCKS. BERLIN, March 23, Shocks of earthquake have been felt almost everywhere in Southern Bavaria,

A' QUESTION OF POLICY, MELBOURNE, March 21, Thc white Australia policy js at pre&ent costing sixty thousand pounds in the way of sugar rebate alonffii 'this amount is due to the planters l who worked their holdings with while labor last year. Cabinet is now deciding whether the cost shall be borne by the whole of the States or by New South Wales and Queensland alone.

MELBOURNE BORROWING. MELBOURNE, March 24. Tenders Tor the Board .of .Works Joan of £1,137,000 at four per cent, have been opened. The sum of four hundred thousand pounds was subscribed. The underwriters takp the balance.- The average of the loan was £IOO 0s lid. SUPPLY OE COAL'. MELBOURNE, March 21. The Admiralty contract to supply Hongkong Mid the China squadron with coal has been secured by Mr Coxburgh, of Melbourne, on behalf of London principals. The coal will be supplied by, Westport colliers. THE TAIHOA' POLICY. MELBOURNE, March 21. In reference to the Marconi Company's offer to connect Australia and New Zealand, the Government have decided that the existing methods answer ali requirements, and are cheaper than the Marconi system would be.

DESPERATE BORROWING. PERTH, March 21. The Treasurer intends In offer £IOO,OOO locally, and a-quarter of a million will be placed on the market early next month. WELCOME RAIN. ; ' SYDNEY, March 21. Light rain is falling.

DESTRUCTIVE FIRE, SYDNEY, March 24. The damage at the Miller's Point lire is officially staled at not less than a-quarter of a million pounds. ANOTHER PLAGUE VICTIM. BRISBANE, March 24. A young woman has been stricken with plague. TASMANIAN ELECTIONS. Nominations for the general elections indicate that the Government will he stubbornly opposed.