GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 1046, 13 November 1903, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

THE AUSTRALIAN SQUADRON. 1 LONDON, Nov. 11. Arrangements have been made for the sloop Mutine to replace the Karrakatta on the Australian station. MELANESIAN MEETING. LONDON. Nov. li. The Bishop of St. Albans presided sat a successful Melanesian meeting in London district. BALFOUR’S SPEECH. LONDON, Nov. 11. Mr Balfour’s speech at the Guildball banquet has been well received on the Continent, especially in France. A BRITISH DILEMMA. LONDON, Nov. li. Germany has applied for the use ol British territory in marching forces to Fort Warmbad. The authorities at Cape Colony hesitate to grant the concession, fearing that by so doing they will exasperate tiie Hottentots resident in Cape Colony.

THE BALKANS, CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 11. The Porte claims to have dismissed one thousand administrative military officers in Macedonia during six months, as proof of the Sultan’s desire to execute reforms. Rebels who are surrendering in Mouastir are seeking Austria’s protection, and ignore the Russian Consul because they deeply resent Russia’s unfulfilled promises of protection. HAGUE ARBITRATION. THE HAGUE, Nov. 11. Judge Pinfield, representing the United States on the Hague Arbitration Tribunal,, declared that the hlockaders’ claim to preference was untenable. The maxim that claims arising out of a war were entitled to preference had long been abandoned. POLITICAL. NEW YORK, Nov. 11. The Republican caucus for the United States Senate displaces Senator J. T. Morgan from the Chairmanship of the Inter-Oceafiu; Canal Committee. Senator Hanna, the probable successor, declares that the people have accepted the Panama route, and he proposes to hack President Roosevelt in building there. HANDSOME BEQUEST. NEW YORK, Nov. 11. Gordon Mackay, the inventor of a sewing machine, has bequeathed two million dollars to a school of applied science at Harvard University.

LOWE HOWE ISLAND. SYDNEY, Nov. 12. Mr Frank Farnell, the visiting magistrate at Lord Howe Island, visits the island in December. He conveys a letter of thanks from the Premier to the Islanders for the assistance ■rendered the Ovalau, and distributes stores given by the Government to replace those consumed by the OivaJau’s passengers. He authorises a number of improvements, including .the extension of the wharf and school accommodation. .THE PLAGUE. BRISBANE, Nov. 12. ’A' boy has been attacked with the plague at Woolloongabba.