GENERAL CABLES

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 896, 20 May 1903, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES

BEN VIUJOEN

By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright.

LONDON, May IS.

■ sen Viljoun has collected lifty Boer families in London, and is conveying i hem lo a Mexican estate. lie declares his reasons for not settling in Hie United States is because the latter country was unable to differentiate between Boers and the scum oi Europe.

SETTLING L'lllUr

PARIS, May JS

Two hundred auci lirry-lhrcc ciuijTiaius —ait'll, women, anil childieii have embarked at La l’allace, near La Rochelle, for Chili, the Chilian (iovcnmienl paying their passages, ami maintaining them lor twelve months. Two thousand are wanted independently of these emigrants.

ARCH-VILLAIN ROUSSEAU

NKW YORK, .May IS. The handwriting of the warning sent to the police about the Umbria's hox was evidently that, of Rousseau. The police find that destruction of life was not intended, and the motive is still an enigma.

TlllO KAISER INSISTS ON A .MONOPOLY.

RERUN, May is. The Tageblatt, announcing the reyjirnat ion of General Yon Rosier, Minister or War, states it is due to tin: Kaiser's disgust at his boundless arrogance in treating high officers as he were a mighty potentate, leading to violent scenes Willi the Raiser.

FREE I’RESS MESSAGES.

MELBOURNE, May IP

:\lr Drake has received- the text of il,’.' proposals for free press messages .. 1 , ... .a i Tiie communication '."‘l , V 'is i,u way of expenmeni and will,' the view of other arrangements e even! nallv I riel m Australia, i iv..w yraliincl should l>e invited and Nuw /Aiii.uni I ( i in if>in with Canada. lllL ,' \ lij.Cjjoiinl to transmit 4 nr hutiditd lerlaining the proposal..

karthqca k k, ADELAIDE. AI ay P' There was a sil p. ht ( Mo-dav”' ' quake on ihe l °‘ l ' ' ' KTUIKIXO Ul' TIM-; SYDNEY, May PL Dr. Crown, a memto* V 1 vSig-’ong n(ljsL . Coining, on m> the work oL he 1 . vjl [, the bhu« aecutaey oi to the 15ihie burning.