GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 891, 14 May 1903, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

THE EDUCATION ACT.

By Telegraph—Press AssociationCopyright.

LONDON, Mav 12

The annual assembly of the " Congregational Union has adopted a resolution condemning tiie education Act, and expressing their sympathy with the policy of passive resistance to flic Bi J l. BIG FLOOD. ST. PKTMRSBURG, May 12. The town of Mery in Russian Turkistan, is flooded to a depth of ISfL 'l’here were many fatalities. SIR W. V. HARCOURT, LONDON, May 12.. Sir William llarcourt is convalescent .

TRA NS-SIBERIA N R A ILWA Y. : I.ON DON, May 12. Mr Austen Chamberlain is sounding the Siberian ra'ilway authorities regarding the prospects of a regular rust, service with the view of sending British mails to China hy that route The terms are not yel settled. FAMINE IN CHINA.

LONDON, May 12. There an; seventy-three thousand iiOople. starving in the Naiitiingl'u and Toiinifii dislriels. Relief has been lent from Hongkong. THE WORM TURNS.

LONDON, May .12, China is evading (he intentions of

the protocol, and has finally declined to pay the indemnity on a gold basis She insists that if gold is demanded,

it must he on the basis of rate of exchange of April Ist, IHO 1. Wang has telegraphed (hat Die rebellion at Kwangsu lias been suppressed. THE KAISER PARALYSES EUROPE, LONDON, May ]2. ;

The ’l’iines stales that, a Paris correspondent has revealed t.lic fact that after the Kaiser’s famous despatch to Kruger during t.he excitement over the .Jamieson raid at least four minor German Courts remonstrated with the Kaiser, and profound dismay .was expressed at Vienna. ROME, May 12 a

The pomp of the Kaiser’s recent visit to the .Vatican has exciteil the animadversions on I lie part o[ tins Italian press. TURNING TilK SWORD INTO A PLOUGIISIIARE. NEW YORK, May. 12. ; iViljoen and Snyman, the Boer exgenerals, have secured .‘iOOD acres in Mexico lor Boer emigrants. A MIGHTY, EXPLOSION, NEW YORK, May 12 s Four ot the Standard Oil Company’s hargesy containing 8011,000 gallons ot oil, exploded ai Long island. 'AMERICAN WHEAT.; MELBOURNE, May 18. During the last ten days a million and a quarter, bushels ot American wheal, arrived, and three hundred thousand bushels arc nearly due.