LATE CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 853, 30 March 1903, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

'A' FIJI APPOINTMENT.

By Telegraph—Press AssociationCopyright. Received 6.17 p.m., March 28. LONDON, March 28. Mr Albert Ehrleardt has been appointed an official member oi the Legislative Council of Fiji. JOAN OF ARC. The Daily Express alleges that a hitch has occurred in the Vatican in regard to the canonisation oi Joan of Arc, because the Bishop of Beauvais condemned her to tiie stake. COUNCIL OF DEFENCE-

The Government have accepted and the House of Lords have agreed to Lord Rosebery's resolution improving the Council of Defence. Lord Brassey suggested the inclusion of representatives of the self-governing colonies.

RATING BILL. Mr McNamara’s Bill rating urban grouud values, and including unoccupied land, has been rejected, the Government only securing thirteen of a majority. A number of Unionists abstained from voting, while eight voted with the minority of 170.

FRENCH MONKS, Received 5.10 p.m., March 29. PARIS, March 28,

...The French monks have decided to oiler passive resistance to .the suppression of their order. SOMALILAND EXPEDITION. LONDON, March 28, ...General Manning reconnoitred as far as Baikoin, in the direction of the Goladi. ,I'he water supply, is plentiful.

' BAD TIME FOR MU. General Mu has been recalled to Pekin to report to the Dowager the reasons for his failure to suppress the Kwangsi rebellion, OPPRESSION IN RUSSIA. ST. PETERSBURG. Mar.,2B- ,

Forty-three pastors in Finland have been deprived oi livings for refusing to co-operate .with officials, MISHAP. TO KAISERIN,. BERLIN, March 28,

Owing to the horse she was riding,; stumbling and falling, the Kaiseriu was thrown, and she received a slight Tracture of the fore arm. The accident occurred at Gremewald. The Kaiser extricated his wife from her dangerous position.

LONDON, March 28

Reuter lias reaffirmed the statement that an Intercolonial Customs Union was agreed to at Bloemfontein and that preferential reductions of 25 per cent, on the ad valorem tariff were "arranged, and a special preferential tariff on machinery.

Betting on the University, boat raeo is 3 to 4 on Cambridge. The Grand National' Steeplechase, run at Liverpool, resulted : Drurncrce 1, Detail 2, Manifest 3, SHIPPING,;

MELBOURNE, March 28. Arrived, the steamer Mokoia, from New Zealand.