LATE CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 870, 21 April 1903, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

By Telegraph—Press Association — Copyright. Keteived 11.11 p.in..April Id. BE KLIN, April 2u. German newspapers are irritated -D the Canadian surtax, ami threaten reprisals. The Krenz /filling accuses Mr Chamberlain of instigating Canada. LONDON, April Marconi and Copenhagen financiers have arranged f< r ethergrams between Ireland and Scot land. BELGKADE. April 20. King Alexander, m an interview with a Daily .Mail representative, said ihat one danger of the situation was the massing of troops in Oid ,Nervia. If it coiiiuie.es, Serein must lake similar precautionary steps. VIENNA, April 20.

Austro-Ilungary, with a view to conciliating the lluugaries Independent party, is introducing a two-year army service, beginning in IUOI. The alteration will add sixty million kroner io the estimates.

Received 1.10 a.ui., April 21. London, April ‘2O. The Daily Express states that incalculable loss has been incurred in tile Bordeaux district. Tiie host blackened two-thirds of the budding vines at Gironde. Chin Chunksuiui, Viceroy of Szechuan, has been transferred to a similar capacity at Kwang, and Rung to Kwangsi. Diplomatists at Pekin consider Hie appointments excellent. Hsiliang has been transferred to Szechuan. The Times’ Paris correspondent says

that the Austro-liussnui entente allows Turkey, in the event of Bulgaria serving as a basis of the revolutionary movement, unrestricted measures of repression, possibly extending across the Bulgarian and Servian frontiers.

Constantinople, April 20. The Sultan has sumniond twenty Konia Angora battalions of Bedifs for service in Albania. Brussels, April 20. Korea lias granted a Belgian syndicate railway and mining concessions on payment of ToO.OOO sterling annually. Received 10.115 p.m., April 20. Rome, April 20. Gotz, who was recently arrested at Milan on suspioiou of being concerned in tiie murder of M. Sipiguini, Mission Minister of the Interior, has been released.

Capetown, April 20. Natal abolishes the transit duty in June under the Customs Convention. New York, April 20. An earthquake has been experienced at Colon, Panama. London, April 20. The Moroccan Pretender has threatened to attack Mellila If the Sultan’s followers are allowed refuge there. The Governor replied that he was awaiting orders from Madrid. Received 1.30 a.m., April 21.

Sydney, April 20.

The Governor-General and Stale Governors visit Norfolk Island in the middio 01 next month. Two men at Kiaina, on the South Coast picked up a nugget weighting two pounds

Melbourne, April 20. The Japanese squadron remain at Wellington from the ISM to the 23rd May, and at Auckland from the 20th to iho"olst. Admiral Fanshawe has advised the Minister for Defence tout the vessels will take the opportunity to test Austra lian and New Zealand coal for the purposes of the Japanese navy and mercantile auxiliaries.