GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 864, 14 April 1903, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

THE BALKANS. By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright. LONDON, April 10. ...Numerous conflicts have taken place in Macedonia. The village of Berova: was surrounded and burned. The insurgents I,raver.sed the cordon of troops and escaped. .Sarafrnv’.s band extorted money from the peasantry of nine villages in the Fiorina district. Russian newspapers urged the despatch of live hundred Cossacks to iMitrovitza to protect the Consul. The Russians are angry at the reforms not being published in Macedonia. The Times says that Bulgaria protected LamsdorlT against the Consular charges against Bulgarian commercial agents in Macedonia. HIS MAJESTY. LONDON, April 10. King. Edward laid I lie coping stone of tho King Edward Dock at Gibraltar. lie made several excursions in the vicinity of the Hock, and attended a garden aprty. The official Paris programme is that King Edward arrives on the first, lie will be entertained at. dinner at the Eiysees, and will attend a gala perfoi malice at t lie Comedie Krancais on the second, and goes on to London on the fourth.

PIKRPONT MORGAN’S BLOW. LONDON, April 1(1. The New York correspondent of the Times states that the St. Patil-Miit-ne.sota judgment, forbidding the merging of Ibe iiuiTlieu companies is a great triumph for President Roosevelt, and that no such blow lias ever been struck at. Mr Pierpons Morgan’s power.

MADE IN GERMANY LONDON, April 10. There, lias been much clandestine importation of German aims into' China. Russia urges that the Powers should prevent, it, and reimposc liie prohibition expiring in August next. A German arms importer lias established a completely-equipped arsenal at. Fuchan, while a German firm at Hongkong holds forty thousand Mausers imported prior to Boxerism, in readiness for sale in August. ‘ •STEAMER LOST. LONDON, April 1(1. The. loss of the steamer Barbara is coulirmcd. A BIG SCHEME. LONDON, April 10. An important land and railway project has been started embracing a large tract of land in the Vrybeid district. A survey has been made from a new seaport in Natal fifty miles nearer the Rand I ban Durban.