LATE CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XII, Issue 1085, 31 December 1903, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Received 10.15 p.m., Dec. 30.

London, Dec. 30. Archbishop Bourne has been enthroned at Westminster.

The Daily Chronicle, commenting on R. L. Nash’s articles on Australian finance, considers tbo interest on Government debt abundantly secured. Australasian indebtedness was not too heavy to be borne, but suspension of borrowing is desirable. It adds: Adequate sinking funds ought to accompany internal retrenchment. Received 10.44 p.m., Dec. 30. Constantinople, Dec. 80. The Porte has agreed to the appointment of an Italian officer to command tho gendarmerie in Macedonia. Pnris, Dec. 30. Tho strike in the provision trades in Paris is temporarily suspended in order to secure tho release of the men arrested. London, Dec. 30.

Otto Nordenskold. in a long article in tho Times, describes the operations of tho late Swedish Antarctic expedition. He states he found at Seymour Islaud and elsewhero traces of largo fossil animals and rich fossil flora,

A punitive expedition was despatched against the Ibbatoos tribe for attempting to kill the British Commissioner at Ekat, Southern Nigeria. In the course of two months’ successful operations tho expedition destroyed fifteen villages in the Oron country, killing many natives and losing only ono man, It is unlikely tho natives will again caußO trouble by hindering trade.