GENERAL CABLES

Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 1045, 12 November 1903, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES

END OF A LONG STRIKE.

By Electric Telegraph—Per Press Association— Copyright. LONDON, Nov. 10. The strike at Penrhyn quarries has practically ended. There are now two thousand men at work, including many, of the old hands.

MOROCCO. LONDON, Nov. 10. Lord Lansdownc, replying to a merchants’ deputation, said that whatever was 1 Morocco’s future, the British Government would make it its business eo secure by solid guarantees that Britain’s trade would bei on the same equality 5 and given the same opportunity as it now enjoyed. A MINISTER’S SUICIDE.

LONDON, Nov. 10, Reuter’s Agency states that the suicide of Signor Rosario, the Italian Minister <of Finance, was due to attacks upon him by Socialists. lie left a farewell letter to his wife wherein lie'complained of their hitter accusations. He would, he wrote, forgive lvis enemies, and, he added, the future would do him justice. WELL-DESERVED PROMOTION. LONDON, Nov. 10, Mr F, E. M. Elliot, British Agent in Sofia, has been promoted to be Minister at Athens, in succession to Sir E, Egerton. CANADIAN SERVICE, LONDON, Nov. 10, .Galway has been selected as the port to land pasengers in connection with the Canadian fast steamship service.

A COMPANY’S PROFIT. LONDON, Nov. 10. The report ol the New Zealand 'and Australian Land Company shows a profit of £71,544. A dividend of four per cent, on preference stock, and three per cent, on the ordinary stock lias been declared, and £1504 carried forward.

RAID ON CAPE COLONY. LONDON, Nov. 10. Fifteen hundred rebel BondelwarU raided Capo Colony, south of Warmbad. The Cape Police fired on them, killing .several. A ROYAL BETROTHAL. LONDON, Nov. 10. It is officially announced that Princess Alice of Albany is betrothed to Prince Alexander of Teck. THE ALASKAN AWARD. LONDON, Nov. 10. Mr Choate,- the American Ambassador, speaking at the Lord Mayor’s banquet at the Guildhall, eulogised Lord Alverstone’s courage and devotion to duty. Lord Alverstorie made a graceful reply. He declared that if they, did not .want a judicial decision, they, must not ask British judges to be members of such Courts. OBITUARY. LONDON, Nov. 10, Sir Charles Nicholson, a member of the first Legislative Council of New South Wales, is dead, aged 04. THE POPE. LONDON, Nov. 10,' The Pope’s allocation to the Consistory is a paraphrase of his first encyclical. He declares he could follow no path other than that of his predecessors. It was impossible to separate politics and papal duties especially as regards maintaining the relations with princes and governments, in order to assure liberty and safety to Catholics. lie adds that tlic Church is not an enemy to progress or science. I-Ie deals with tile situation of French Catholics.

Monsiginor Merry,delval, the recently appointed Papal Secretary of State, has been made a Cardinal. HUNGARIANS TROUBLES. BUDA PESTI-I, Nov.. 10. Mjp Tisqua, the Hungarian Premier, in a striking speech in the Diet, re ferred to the necessity of ending the fruitless strife and healing the nation’s wounds. Kossuthites decided to coneinue the obstruction, considering that M. Tisiqua’s declaration fell short of their national rights.; RUSSIA’S CHALLENGE. ST a PETERSBURG, Nov, 10. .The newspaper Novoe Vreyuia’ says that the Russian guard-ship being sent to Bushire is intended to counteract the idea of Britain’s exclusive rights in the Persian Gulf. JEALQJJS GERMANS. . BERLIN, November 10. Commenting upon the manifesto issued by the German Governor of New .Guinea, protesting against the- progress of the English language in German colonies in the Pacific, the organ of the German Colonial Society asserts that Australia greatly covets the annexation of German New Guinea and the Bismarck Archipelago. The predominance of the English language and English ways is preparing the way for the hoisting of the British dag. THE KAISER’S HEALTH.

BERLIN, Nov, 10, The newspaper Nieus Weiner Journal declares that it was first intended that Professor Bargemena. should operate upon the Kaiser. Entertaining a rather pessimistic opinion, he desired to make a radical operation. Dr Schmidt then operated less radically. The latest bulletin is that the left vocal chord continues slowly to improve, AUSTRALIAN NEWS, PERTH, Nov. 11. The plague patient is dead. Only 215 officers and men were present at the King’s Birthday, review} which is attributed to the manner in which the local forces are starved ” by. the Federal Government, ■ ADELAIDE, Nov. 11. A scientific expedition under Major Cooke Daniels, equipped by the Royal and Geographical Societies, arrived by the steamer Wilcannia, en route ito New .Guinea, where the members will spend a year in general scientific work, paying special attention to ethuography, MELBOURNE, Nov. 11.

The racehorse Bruntwood lias been sold for 150 guineas, and Seaport .for 3SO guineas. The former goi-s to India.

Messrs Hyslop, ex-Treasurer, and Armstrong, a member of the Natal Parliament, have arrived here to enquire into Australian legislation, agriculture, irrigation, and railwaymanagement. Mr Irvine at the Lord Mayor’s banquet, announced that there were reasons of a private character which would not enable him much longer L.. occupy the position of Premier. Mr ■lrvine, replying subsequently, said there were rumors that he intended to appoint himself to a seat on the Supreme Court Bench. To these 1)3 gave an emphatic denial. He declined to make any statement as to the reason for his withdrawal. I-iis ffiends state that lie is prompted to the step by a desire to keep together his practice at the Bar, upon .which he is dependent. Its is thought he will not resign before the present •Parliament has .completed its work,