GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 927, 27 June 1903, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

COAL TAX EVASION. By; Telegraph—Press AssociationCopyright. LONDON, June 25. Mr Rikhic is devising means to prevent coal tax evasion. It is estimated that halt'-a-iuillion pounds worth of revenue is annually lost. Coals are allowed to be shipped in vessels in quantities according to the length of the voyage, and tramp steamers are suspected of selling coal abroad as cargo. SUPPORT FOR MR CHAMBERLAIN. LONDON, June 25. The Board ol Trade at Sydney, Cape Breton, have endorsed Mr Chamberlain’s Empire preference proposals. HONORS FOR THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES. LONDON, June 25. The London University has conferred a Doctorship of Laws upon the Prince of Wales and a Doctorship of Music on the Princess of Wales. BRITISH GUNBOAT CAPTURES A SLAVE DHOW. LONDON, June 25. The British gunboat Hussar captured a slave dhow oil the Somaliland coast, with two hundred contraband rifles and twenty-seven cases of ammunition aboard. TKANS-HIMALAYAN TRADE. LONDON, June 25. Major Younghusband and Mr Claude White, representing the Indian Government, will meet I'ibetiau and Chinese official representatives at Simliin in July, to discuss questions relating to trans-llimalayan trade. AN ALTERNATIVE SCHEME. LONDON, June 25. Ms Bryce, member for Aberdeen, addressing the New Reform Club, said it would be cheaper for Great Britain to subsidise Canada and Australia with a lump sum annually than to embark on a policy of colonial preference. THE BONE OF CONTENTION, LONDON, June 20. It is reported here that .Sir E. Satow is to be allowed greater latitude than heretofore, and has been instructed, in conjunction with Hie Japanese Minister, to press China to come early to a direct understanding regarding Maachuria. POOR CHINA.

J J I.OKIN, June 25. America and Japan will refuse a commerrial treaty with (Jluua if the opening o£ the Manchurian ports is left in abeyance. BLOODTHIRSTY KURDS. CONSTANTINOPLE, June 25. 'The Kurds pillaged a monastery near Erzrouin, killing six priests, and also pillaged villages, killing a number of people. A notable mature was that Turkish troops in rile .vicinity did not interfere. IMPROVEMENTS TO FRENCH PORTS. PARIS, June 25. Tile Senate lias approved of the expenditure of 25C million francs for the improvement of ten French ports and canals. STRIKE RIOTS. NEW YORK, June 25. The militia were summoned to quell a tramway strikers’ riot at Richmond, Virginia, and fired a volley, which wounded six men. POLITICAL TROUBLES. BUDA PESTH, June 25. Count liedcrvary. is forming, a Cabinet, having conciliated the Kossuthites un the basis of a vote increasing the number of recruits. SETTLEMENT OF. A STRIKE. CAPETOWN, June 25. The carpenters’ strike at Pretoria has ended, after lasting two months, the masters agreeing to a standard wage of 135 s a .week of 43 hours. A WASTE OF TIIVUOj SYDNEY, June 20. In flic Assembly the censure debate was adjourned until Tuesday. THE SHIPPING CONFERENCE. The Shipping Conference has adjourned to a date to be agreed upon, the seamen’s representatives desiring to report flic ship-owners’ proposals U> their Union, and lo take a further expression of opinion thereon.