GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 895, 19 May 1903, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

NEW ZEALAND BRASS BAND.

By, Telegraph—Press AssociationCopyright., LONDON, May 17. The New Zealand Band opcmM,. it Tunbridge Wells, and scored a! great success.

THEIR MAJESTIES. LONDON, May 17. The King and Queen have arrived al London. COAL MINES REGULATION. LONDON, May 17. The second reading of Mr Markham’s Coal Mines Regulation Bill was negatived by IS3 to HI. The minority included thirty-two Nationalists.

WHOLESALE REDUCTION. LONDON, May 17. Six hundred aod thirty-nine hotel licenses have been refused on applications for renewal in England and Wales during the last two months.

PILLAGING AND FIGHTING, LONDON, May 17. Reinforcements aboard a British steamer entered Tetuan unopposed. The Sultan’s troops carried the fortress of Tazza by storm, after pillaging and firing villages in the surrounding country. UNIQUE NAVAL EXPERIMENT. PARIS, May 17. Sheep were placed in the French

battleship Henry Qua!re in (lie position where the men arc destined to .serve the smaller guns, while the big turret tired overhead. As a result

of (he experiment., the sheep were stunned, though otherwise unharmed. The conclusion arrived at is that the gunners will not suffer. EXPELLING THE JEWS. ST. PETERSBURG, May 17. The edict for the expulsion or the Jews at KielT affects thirty-seven thousand people, who are distributing themselves in Hie South. MASSING TROOPS. ST. PETERSBURG, May 17. Fifty thousand troops ate in Hie Odessa district on a war looting. THE LANGUAGE PROBLEM. CAPETOWN, May 17. Sir Arthur Lawley, Lieutenant-Go-vernor of the. Transvaal, fias rejected tiie Butch Reformed Church petition asking that the control of Hie Government, schools lie transferred ‘to elective school boards. The Synod is discussing a means of establishing private schools, with the view of devoting more time to leaching Dutch. AMICABLE RELATIONS. LONDON, May 18.

Weikuangki, successor to Luikumyi, has fully adopted the latter’s policy of friendly relations to foreigners. STRANGE PIIENOM ENON, BRISBANE, May 18. The barque Antonio, when five hundred and fifty miles off the coast, ran into a thick red dust, half suffocating the crew. It is supposed $o he the effects of a simoon, POLITICS, SYDNEY, May 18. There is evidence of a movement in political and labor circles to force upon Government a graduated land tax on large estates, so as to make up the deficits in the present retrenchment proposed in the State service. The system proposed is on the lines of the New Zealand tax. At a conference of political laborers disgust was expressed with Mr Irvine’s coercion, and the necessity of strengthening the party at the forthcoming Federal and Stale eleclions was emphasised. It was also resolved to urge Hie Government to amend the Arbitration Act in the direction of the prohibition of lawyers appearing in the Court.

SOUTH KALGOORLIU MINE.

PERTH, May 18. The South Kalgoorlir. mine will he shut down at Hie end of May, throwing two hundred men idle' pending Uie raising of fresh capital to reorganise and improve Hie mine.