LATE CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 850, 26 March 1903, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

181 MILLION LOAN

By Telegraph —Press Association —Copyright Received 10.45 p.m., March 25. London, March 25. The London County Council are asking for powers to borrow millions during the next eighteen months. A COURT-MARTIAL. Ridgeway, Governor of Coylon, has boon authorised to convene a court-martial to try Sir Hoctor Macdonald for a serious offence unpunishable by the Ceylon laws. Sir Hector Macdonald recently consulted Lord Roberts, who advised him to return and meet the charges. SEVERE EARTHQUAKES. Three shocks of earthquake were experienced at Derbyshire. The ceiling of houses cracked and fireplaces were dislodged. The inhabitants of Leek rushed into the streets. Shocks were felt at Nottingham, Stafford, Sheffield, and elsewhere.

Received 10.53 p.m., March 25. New York, March 25. Tho New York Herald has published the commander iof Pallas’ denial of tho seizure of the restaurador. Fourteen were killed and forty wounded in the Port of Spain riots. All woro natives. Order has now been restored. Received 10.53 p.m., March 25. London, March 25. The Premier and Mr Rothschild had an interview in Downing Street in reference to consols and Transvaal loans. Received 1.24 a.m,, March 26. London, March 25. The Times says that Currie, tho French physicist, has discovered that radium continuously emits heat without combustion or chemical change or change of molecular structure, and maintains a tomperature of 27T0 fahrenheit above its surroundings. The Circuit Court at Dumfries, on the ground that betting is illegal, dismissed tho cases against the telegraphists charged with altering tho time on betting telegrams. The Chamber of Commerce at Port of Spain has cabled to Mr Chamberlain profound regret at tho disturbances as calamities. They urge tho removal of tho Governor and principal officials, in whom public confidence iB entirely lost, in order to prevont further rioting and bloodshed pending the appointment of a Royal Commission to investigate the matter.

St. Petersburg, Mar. 25,

Phehive, Minister of the Interior, has attached General Scbuvaloff to the Ministry of the Interior as Genoral for special missions. Schuvaloff, as Prefect of Odessa, energetically fought the plague and suppressed the disturbance. Capetown, March 25.

Five colonies at the Bloemfontein Conference have signed a draft of the Customs Union Convention, that ten per cent, preferential treatment be accorded to Great Britain apd the colonies which reciprocate. The draft must be ratified by the various legislatures. The articles most favored are flour and wheat. The closing resolution described the Convention as a great stride in political unification, and expressed the hope of an early conference to promote tho Commonwealth of South Africa. Paris, March 25.

At the instance of M. Combe3, the Chamber of Deputies, by 304 to 246, declined to authorise the preaching of orders. M. Combos states that the concordat provides for parochial clergy, who, in preaching orders, were trying to supersede,

Sydney, March 25,

Four business premises at Parkos were destroyed by fire. The damage is £SOOO. Two pussengers by tho Tsinan have developed small-pox at the quarantine station.

Good rains are falling in the northern high lands. Four inches fell at Port Stephen and over three inches at Newcastle.

Melbourne, March 25

Sir Joseph and Lady Ward left by the Victoria to-day for tho Bluff. Sir E. Barton and other politicians saw them off.