GENERAL CABLES

Gisborne Times, Volume XII, Issue 1073, 15 December 1903, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES

ALLEGED RIGHTS

By Electric Telegraph—Per Press Association—Copyright. LONDON, Dec. 13. .Sir Thomas Sutherland, at the Peninsular anil Oriental Company’s meeting, said that the Privy Council's decision respecting duties on ship'’s stores in Australian waters came as a surprise, and upset preconceived ideas of the rights of British ships on the high seas. All the steam companies had agreed to charge lower tariffs for wine and .whisky elsewhere than when running on what was considered the Australian coast. SECRET PREPARATIONS'. BELGRADE, Dec. 13. The Turkish Minister here has remonstrated against the secret preparations that are being made to support an outbreak in Old Servia in the coming spring. \ PREFERENCE.RIO DE JANEIRO, Dee. .13. The Brazilian Chamber has authorised a sixty per cent, -reduction of duties on the products of countries admitting Brazilian coffee duty free. SENT TO GAOL. . VIENNA, Dee, 13, (Father Drosd, president, and Herr Mohout, manager of Hie St. Wenzel Loan Bank, have been sentenced to seven years’ hard labor at Prague, on charges of issuing false balaneeIshcets since 1877,, causing a deficit of eight million kroner, wherewith Catholic enterprises were subsidised.

LORD LAMINGTON. BOMBAY,. Dec. 13. Lord L'ainington received a great reception on his arrival to assume the Governorship. BRITISH IN THIBET, BOMBAY; Dec. 13. The latest reports state that it is unlikely that the Thibetans will further oppose the advance of the British mission escort, confining themselves to formal protests. CONCILIATION. CAPETOWN, Dec. 13. Louis Botha -and Dan Groves, joint founders of the Transvaal Land Syndicate, have settled their mutual differences. The former agrees to abstain from further hostilities to Lord Milner, while Groves engaged to appeal to the Empire to support the syndicate’s efforts to obtain assistance for British colonial and Boer farmers. KAISER IN GOOD HEALTH,

BERLIN, Dec. 13. The Kaiser paid an unexpected visit to Berlin, and viewed the art exhibition. He was present at the theatre in the evening, and was given an enthusiastic reception in the streets. < ITALY’S GRATITUDE 3 ROME, Dec. 13. Signor Mirabello, Minister of Marine, speaking in the Chamber oT Deputies, expressed in the name of the nation, recognition, of Capt. Gaunt’s •service, and wishes for the speedy recovery of a brave British officer. He added that the Italian navy had always been united to the British by ties of sympathy. The President amidst prolonged cheers, associated himself with the expression on behalf of the House.