GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 900, 26 May 1903, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

UNREST IN CHINA'

By Telegraph—Press AssociationCopyright. LONDON, Alay 23. The rebels are in possession of Li-; neiifu, China. A GIFT. LONDON, Alay 23. General Badcn-Powcll nas presented to King Edward, at Buckingham Palace, the gun manufactured at Mafeking, which proved so eseful in the defence. ELECTRIC LIGHTING. LONDON, May 23. The City of Wellington Electric Lighting Company is issuing seventyfive thousand five per cent, debentures. EMPIRE TRADE LEAGUE. LONDON, May. 23. The United Empire Trade League is organising meetings in provincial centres, to discuss the ((iiestion ol preferential tariffs. A AIISSIONARY VESSEL.

LONDON, Alay 23. 'The Archbishop of Canterbury inducted the new missionary vessel Southern Cross at the East India Dock. Tlie Bishops of .St. Albans and Adelaide, and Bishop Montgomery, lately Bishop of Tasmania, Admirals Fremantle, Beaumont, and Gibson, and a large company, were present. The Southern Cross sails to take up her mission work on the 26 th.

A BRAZILIAN LOAN. LONDON, Alay 23. A Brazilian live per cent-. Joan of five and a half millions .sterling has been floated. It, is intended for Rio harbor improvements. It was issued at a minimum final of ninety, and was subscribed threefold. THE CUP CHALLENGER. LONDON, Alay 23.

The yacht Shamrock 111. starts for America in the middle of this week, PRISON TO PARLIAMENT. Mr Denis Kilbride, ex-member of the House of Commons, who was recently released from prison, lias been elected unopposed for Kildare South, Mr: Alincli, Ihe sitting member, having resigned. MADAME MELBA.

Madame Melba denies a report circulated that she is ill. DEMONSTRATION AGAINST THE EDUCATION BILL LONDON, Alay. 23. As a protest against Mie London Education Bill, hundreds of Nonconformists, including the eongegations of churches, led iiy their ministers, members of trade unions and benevolent societies, held a procession throughout the city. They met on

the Thames Embankment anti marched to Hyde Park, singing hymns, .with banners dying, and bands playing. The brilliant weather attracted one hundred thousand people to the Park, where a great demonstration was held. Twelve platforms were erected. Hr Clifford, President of the Metropolitan Free Churches Council, and other ministers, Lloyd George, and members of the House of Commons, denounced the Bill. It was urged that it would lead to the destruction of the School Board by the overweighting of the County Council. The speakers claimed that it was necessary. that the schools should he controlled by a direetly-el-ected body/ The Government had previously announced that in consequence of last Wednesday’s debate in the House of Commons, the Borough Council’s functions would lie confined to local management, the propsed representation of a centra) committee being abandoned. CUP DEFENDER. LONDON, May 23. The announcement is made that the yacht Reliance’s superiority over her predecessors is undoubted.

THE LABOR QUESTION, CAPETOWN, May 23. The Chamber <■ f Mines, Johannesburg, has discussed the native labor question. Sir Percy, Fitzpatrick, president, said if the Government encroached, on the present labor supply of the mines for the purposes of public works the importation of colored labor from somewhere else would he come necessary. It was unanimously resolved to recommend the Government to import indentured coolies lor the construction of the railways,

SOMALILAND CAMPAIGN. LONDON, May 23. The Abyssinians are advancing on Gerlogubi. This movement will facilitate the envelopment of flic Mullah's forces. General Manning is concentrating his supplies and transport at Robotle. He awaits further instructions. The Somali camel corps will probably he disbanded. The levies kept in strict discipline are inclined to he mutinous. WII OLE.SALE SLAUGHTER. CONSTANTINOPLE, May 23. Prior to the Turkish occupation of Ipelf. Iwo hundred Albanians were killed. The majority of the Albanians, with Ihe ringleaders, were arrOK It'll. MONOPOLY IN CURRANTS. LONDON, May 23.

The Greek currant monopoly has been completed. An English syndicate purchases Ihe entire annual crop, estimated at one hundred and fifty thousand tons, at lived prices, jhe growers also receive fifty per cent, profit after a dividend of six per cent, has been paid. The Federation of Grocers of the United Kingdom has wiretl to the King of Greece a protest against the monopoly, which it is intended determinedly to oppose. OUR JAPANESE ALLIES. MELBOURNE, May 2,7. A'feature oi tlie naval u nd military review on Saturday was the participation of nearly live hundred officers and men of the Japanese squadron. They received an enthusiastic reception from tiie spectators. THE PLAGUE. PERTH, Mav 35.

A woman lias been attacked by the plague at Fremantle, in the vicinity of where two plague deatns occurred a year ago. The medical opinion is that the infection arose from the soil. BRISBANE, May 24. 'A' Chinaman has been fatally, attacked Kith plague in the city 4