CABLE NEWS

Grey River Argus, Volume 57, Issue 10520, 2 February 1903, Page 2

CABLE NEWS

(bleotrio telegraph— copyright)

[PER PRESS ASSOCIATION]

London, Jan 30. Three thousand Chinese troops hava been ordered to the borders of the Kwaichow, where the rebels in a strong force declared their intention to capture Canton and hence strike at Pekin. Reuter's agency states that events in Macedonia are being keenly watched. Odessa commissariats have been ordered to be prepared for eventuali* ties. Vienna, Jan 30. The new tariff gives Hungary the complete control of the Austrian market for grain and cattle. St. Petersburg, Jan 30. J Russian tariff on German imports has been trebled. New York, Jan 30. Cuba's disbanded army threatens to jeeupy towns to collect fifteen million lollars arrears of pay, the Government > >romising only half. Capetown, Jan 30. Government employees' houses are eing erecbed at Johannesburg at a ostof L 1,000,000. Rent is nefc to xceed one-sixth of the salary of the ccupants.

Constantinople, Jan. 30. The Sultan asked the sons of M»hmu:l Pasha, who reci.lly died, to deliver up his body, the Sultan being unwilling that it should reab mChn tian soil, The sons repied that the body was interred in a Mualulmao cemetery. The father's wish was never to return alive or dead, under the present Government to Constantinople. Maraud was a brother inM*w. of the Sultan, and searetly left Const»ntniopleinlß99. He addressed a letter to the Sultan, strongly condemning the administrative system and rampant despotism. He took refuge in Corfu and was sentenced to death in default of ignoring an order to retn n to Constantinopla. He then fled to Europe, where he worked i« the interest of the young Turkey party. (Received Feb 1, at 4 50 p m). Vienna, Jan 31. The Reichsrath has ratified the Brussels Sugar Convention. London, Jan 31. Obituary— Wm Eton, an actor well known in Australasia.