GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 903, 29 May 1903, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

NOTTINGHAM’S BIG GUNS,

By Telegraph—Press Association—* Copyright. LONDON, May 27. Nottingham made 73!) for the loss of seven wickets against Leicestershire ; W. Gunn, 131) ; J. Gunn, 291.. They added 367 for the third wicket. COMMERCIAL.

LONDON, May 27. Tallow sales : 1166 casks offered ; 959 sold. Medium mutton, 20s ; other sorts unchanged. DISCOVERY EXPEDITION. LONDON, May 27. In reply to Mr Balfour’s strictures Sir Clements Markham indignantly, protests that (lie Royal Geographical Society originally, and repeatedly afterwards, indicated the necessity of sending a relief ship to the Discovery’s assistance. PREFER ENTIA L TA HI FF. LONDON, May 27.

In the House of Commons, Mr Chamberlain, in reply to Sir John Long, staled that, there had been no negotiations between the Motherland and the colonies regarding the tariff concessions. .She had made no official proposals for colonial tariffs giving preferential rates for British against foreign goods.

PARLIAMENTARY .SCANDAL. VICTORIA, H.C., May 27. Colonel Prior, Premier of British Columbia, has demanded the resignation of Mr W. C. Wells (Commissioner of Lands) and Mr 1). M. Eberts (Attorney-General), owing to the lauds incident, cabled on the. CUt inst.

OU'IVII E ROD IN Cf HEROD. CAIRO, May, 27. Count Bosdari, dealer in art gems (formerly of London), has been arrested at Alexandria, charged, with others, in committing frauds and forgeries of hills of exchange on Mr Pierpont Morgan and others.

GERMAN NAVY SCANDAL. BERLIN, May, 27. Hucsscner was sentenced at Kiel to four years’ imprisonment and dismissed from the navy, for killing Hartmann.

PARLS-MADRID MOTOR RACE. PARIS, May 27. It is estimated that the collapse of the Paris-Madrid motor race will mean the loss of two million sterling to the French motor manufacturers, INTERNATIONAL CIIESS. VIENNA, May 27.

The Vienna Gambit chess tournament was won by Tsehigorin (the Russian player), with 13 points, Marshall 111, Marso 11, Pillsburg 10. ' SOUTH YARRA TRAGEDY. MELBOURNE, May, 28.

The second SLott child has succumbed to its injuries. Mrs Stott's throat was cut before her head was battered. AUSTRALIAN SQUADRON. MELBOURNE, May 28.

Sir Id. Barton says he has received no official information of the statement which appeared in the English papers, that the warships Katoomha, Mildura, and Wallaroo have been recommissioned for three years, hut does not doubt this action in accordance with the naval agreement under which the whole of the squadron is Australian, with the exception of the drill ships, shall be of a modern type Doubtless these three ships are intended as drill ships and the twenty, thousand pounds proposed to be expended on them will be for fitting them for their new. work. MOUNTAIN OR DIAMONDS. PERTH, May 28.

A diamond-drill struck a fifteeninch reef in the Volunteer Blocks mine at a depth of 7(ioft. An assay showed six ounces to the ton. EXPLOSION IN A MINE. BRISBANE, May 28.

By an explosion in the Daydawn mine, a man named Tapleton was killed and two others seriously, and two less slightly injured.