LATE CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 802, 17 January 1903, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

SHOOTING AN EDITOR

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Received 11.20 p.ui., Jan. 16. New York, Jan. 16. Tillman, Lieutenant-Governor of South Carolina, shot Gonzales, a local editor, out of revenge for criticism. THE CANALS.

Sooner than submit to Columbia's exorbitant demands, the 'Washington authorities will adopt the Nicaragua canal route.

RELIGIOUS ASSOCIATIONS. Paris, Jan. 16. Replying to an interpellation M. Coombs, Premier, said that he would toierato congregational institutions where the State did not provide for primary schools. The Chamber, by 313 to 211, approved of the Government’s attitude. REFORM IN MACEDONIA.

Constantinople, Jan. 16. Ferrid, President of tho Macedonian Reformers Commission, has replaced Said as Grand Vizier. He is supposed to be an honest, humane, energetic man. A FIRE.

Loudon, Jan. 16. The official residence of Sir J. D. French, General Officer Commanding the First Army Coips at Aldershot, has been destroyed by fire. ORANGE LOAN. The Daily Mail’s Johannesburg correspondent states that the Orange war contribution will bo five millions, with an Orange public works loan of a similar amount.

A GERMAN THREAT. Berlin, Jan. 16. The Reichstag is discussing a resolution urging the Government to denounce the most favorod nation arrangements unless German goods aro accorded full reciprocity. THREATENED COLLAPSE.

Rome, Jan. 16. Tho Doge’s Palace, Venico, threatens to collapse. AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Sydney, Jan. 16. Arrived at 8 p.m., tho Mararoa, from Auckland. Vice-Admiral Fanshawe has been officially welcomed. He assumes command of the station on Monday. Melbourne, Jan. 16. Kruffoff, tho Russian Imperial Commisiouer, douhts tho accuracy of the cable message that express trains have commenced running at Siberia. When ho left the latter country in September last several bridges and other works remained to be completed. The lino will not be quite ready till May. A conference of European railway managers meets ut Paris in May to decide upon a train service from Paris to the Far East.