GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 852, 28 March 1903, Page 4

GENERAL CABLES.

,THEIR MAJESTIES TAKE A' HOLIDAY.

By, Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright^ LONDON, March 26. King Edward starts for Portugal ok Monday, Her Majesty Queen Alexandra starting the same day for Copenhagen. THE VICEROY OP INDIA ... DECORATED. LONDON, March 26. King Edward has conferred on Lord Cur/,,0n the Chain of the Victorian of the Victorian Order as a memento of the Durbar. THE TRINIDAD RIOTS. LONDON, March 26. Mr Chamberlain, in the House of Commons, stated that Sir C. A. Moloney. Governor of Trinidad, declares that the waterworks ordinance lias been much misrepresented. There had been some agitation in favor of representative government, which fanned the excitement. The Council Chamber was stoned by a mob, and members wounded. The Riot Act was read twice. The Government appointed a Commission to inquire. VENEZUELAN PRESIDENT WITHDRAWS HIS RESIGNATION. NEW YORK, March 26. President Castro in a message to Congress, withdrew his resignation. AN INVITATION DECLINED. NEW YORK, March 26. President Roosevelt, owing to a. change of plans, declined the Kaisers invitation to the squadron to go to Kiel. Tim vessels will not proceed beyond the Azores. POLITICAL AFFAIRS. MELBOURNE, March 27, In reference to the cable, commenting on the debate on the Imperial estimates and to the Times remarks about incohereney of policy and its being responsible for the failure c.t the. Imperial Conference, Sir 16. Barton states that the impression was not made on him that the question of land and sea defence would be dealt with separately,- each on its merits. Dealing with the relations of Australia and Great Britain lie said lucre was no doubt we found that the expectations raised in England were greater both in naval and military directions than were at any rate at present likely to be realised, 'i !io chief difficulty under which we laboured at each end of the cable service was that there was not sufficient knowledge of (he conditions and requirements and views that obtain at the other end, and due to the fact that the charges for cables however they have been reduced lately, are by no means cheap. lie did r.ot wish to trespass upon the functions of the press, but whenever the Australasian papers had increased Ihe cable news concurrently with the reduction of rates they had bestowed a great advantage on ,the community. MISHAP TO WARSHIP. BRISBANE, March 27. The German warship Moewe, hound from Sydnoy to New Guinea, has put hi o Moreton Bay, leaking, due to the bi caking of a small pipe under the water-line. Two pumps were kept going to keep the water down. The broken pipe was repaired. THE HOP HARVEST. HOBART, March 27. The hop harvest has almost been completed, The average yield is 11 cwt. per acre.