GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 872, 23 April 1903, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

HIS MAJESTY,

By Telegraph—Press Association Copyright. LONDON, April 21. llis Majesty the King has left Malta.

COSTLY EXPERIMENTS. LONDON, April 21. Count Zeppelin has abandoned his airship experiments, which have cost hint a million marks, A GAY DECEIVER. LONDON, April 21.

William Brown, coachman s son, who married the ex-Cmintess Russell at the Portsmouth Registry Oilice in December, has been arrested lor making a false statement representing himself a.s Prince Smart Modena, son of the Emperor of Austria. PHYSICAL TRAINING. LONDON, April 21. The Royal Commission on physical training in .Scotland emphasises the various shortcomings in children s recreation. and makes many recommendations. It proposes that lads

of Hooligan tendencies should enter continuation schools, and that provision be made as a last resort for the Stale feeding the children.

FAMINE IN SWEDEN. LONDON, April 21. Reassuring advices have been received as to the relief of (he famine in Switzerland. THE BAODAD RAILWAY. LONDON. Apsil 21.

'rue newspapers declare that Hut Bagdad railway is only possible if Britain consents to a large increase in (he Turkish Customs, and grants a railway and postal subsidy to the extent of £l-15,000, now paid to the British mail ships, and the press' insist upon (lie Government completely protecting British political and commercial interests.

A CHANGE OF POLITICS. LONDON, April 21. Earl Temple has resigned the Presidency of the Bath Conservative Association, declaring lhat. Lite Government is a great danger to (he State. SOUND ADVICE FROM THE TIMES, LONDON, April 21.

The 'limes says that in order to maintain and develop Britain’s position as an Asiatic Power and retain her present control of the sea routes to Australasia 'it is imperative to abandon the policy of drift, and adopt a new departure calculated to defeat tile open and furtive rivalry of other Stales in Lite East. MORGAN OCTUPUS.

NEW YORK, April 21. The. Morgan Shipbuilding Trust, r securing control of Cramps’ shipbuilding yards, Philadelphia, as a subsidiary company. GOOD NEWS. NEW YORK, April 21,

The American herring fleet, imprisoned in the ice floes at Bay Island for three months, has escaped.

A MISSING SHIP. NIOW YORK, April 21. 'Thu French ship Dueonidio, which .sailed from Sail Fr a ncisco for Sydney with wheat, on December 24th, lias been reinsured at fi7 guineas per cent,. AN ALL-NATIONS’ TRUST. NEW YORK, April 21, Professor Pickering, of Harvard University Observatory, -proposes a trust, representing all the nations in the world, to work them without any waste, and provided money and men where needed. THE KINO OF THK AIR. ROMM, April 31.

Signor Marconi has made a free gift of his apparalus to the Italian Government, tile receipts from the messages from twelve stations to go to the Government, those from ships to the Marconi Company. The State imposes a fixed tax on each message beyond (he ordinary cost. THK MURDERED CONSUL. ST. PKTKRSBURO, April 21. The Czar has- given the late M. Shcherbina's family ten thousand roubles. AN KMINKNT RUSSIAN. ST. PKTKRSBURO, April 21. 'The Czar lias issued a rescript decorating Count Kapuist, Russian .Ambassador at Austria. He eulogised Ihe zeal he displayed in his position, which contributed to the maintenance of the long-standing

fric-t.dly relationship between Russia and Austria. A STRIKK COLLAPSKS. BURNT,'. April 21, The strike at Basel lias collapsed.