LATE GABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XII, Issue 1076, 18 December 1903, Page 2

LATE GABLES.

By Electric Telegraph—Per Press Association—Copyright. Received 10.4 p.m., Dec. 17 s LONDON, Dec. 17., The Duke of Norfolk has become engaged to the Honorable Gwendoline Constable Maxwell, daughter of Lord I-lerries. Since they are first cousins, Papal dispensation is necessary before marriage can take place.-, BERLIN, Dec. 17. Lieutenant Schilling has beiyi sentenced to fifteen months’ imprisonment for 618 cases of maltreatment of German soldiers.

Sergeant Frinzky wias sentenced to fi v c years for 1520 cases. The latter habitually struck men with a stick, spat on their faces', and tortured them in every way. Count Limburgstrum, in the Reichstag, stated sergeants would find they were unable to lick men into shape, especially Socialists, with blows.

ST. PETERSBURG, Dec., 17. 'Jews and Armenians refuse to attend theatres and public places at Baku, as a potest against the Government’s high-handed measures. Ten defending advocates at tho Kishinielf trial withdrew owing to the unfairness of the Court, -vhich was the instrument of high administrative authorities. The real culprits, they declare, were not placed in the dock. CONSTANTINOPLE, Dee. 16. : Two hundred and sixteen cases of cholera are reported, and 176 deaths were recorded at Kerbela, a town CO miles south-west of Bagdad.