GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 870, 21 April 1903, Page 4

GENERAL CABLES.

A U,STEAL! AN FISHERIES

By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright. MELBOURNE, April 2U. Owing Id Lin- stringent regulation imposed Ij\ the Tasmanian Fisheries Commissioners, it is probable that all the Victoria fishing boats engaged round tile islands in Bass ,Straits

will be laid up, throwing two linnbred men out of employment. Steps will be taken to ask the Federal Parliament to bring all the lisheries n tin- States under Commonwealth control.

Tills PLAGUE. BRISBANE, April 20. A man has been altacked by plague. A FAITHFUL MISTRESS. PERTH, April 20. A curious petition lias been received by the Premier in connection with ftlailla.lt, a Frenchman, lying under sentence of death. The petitioner is Mary Remind, with whom the condemned man lived for three years. She prays she be allowed to contract marriage with Maiilatt, and asserts siie will die happier when be lias acknowledged her as bis wife. P. AND O. COMPANY. ' BERTH, April 20. Mr Shields, one of the managers of the Peninsula and Oriental Company, who lias been on a, visit, to Australia, states that if llie Federal (iovernmenl, insists on imposing ~ duty on ships’ si ores, Australian passengers will have to sillier by the increased lares. Thu imposition of I lie duly amounts to -Liu,(ltd) a year. Owing to the drought, the Australian branch of the service lias not. paid for some years. Last year, it lost, over LaUOUO, not counting the subsidy. REBELLION IN MOROCCO.

LONDON, April .10. ■ The .Pretender is marching oil Fez. CROWNS AT A DISCOUNT, LONDON, April 10. The iSullan lias offered the. crown to Muley Pasha, who has refused to accept, it,. VIONEXtJEI,AN REVOLUTEIN, A Reuter's telegram from Caracas says that, duiiil revolutionists, under General Piero, were annihilated after ten days’ pursuit.. General Ortega Martinez was captured. VENE 7. UELAN PROT()U()L, LONDON, April 10. The third payment under Lite protocol has been, effected. BAGDAD RAILWAY. LONDON, April 10. The Times tentatively suggests that if British capital is invested in the Bag,dad railway whether .it ought not to tic expended at the . Koweyt end of the line inland, and thus enable Britain to ultimately impose conditions.