GENERAL CABLES

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

GENERAL CABLES

By Telegraph—Press AssociationCopyright. LONDON, .January 15. Three large locomotive firms "at Glasgow, Polmadic, and Springburn, .suburbs of Glasgow, are combining with a. capital of two millions.

Many bodies of tenantry associated with the Irish League complain that Lord Duuravcn’s Conference of representative landlords and tenants betrayed their interests. An animated newspaper correspondence is proceeding between Senator Mathieson, Sir Frederick Young Loring (sic), Sir Henry Goring, Mr Copeland, and olhers over the Australian Imperial naval defence. Loring’s suggestion that Great Britain ought, after three years’ notice to renounce its present responsibility in regard to the safety of the autonomous colonies (and at the same time indicate its willingness to consider proposals for joint responsibility) is generally condemned. Mr Copeland ridiculed such a cold-blooded proposal, and says ho is confident that Australasia would reply that there would he a separation only when they were safe and quite able, to resist invasion. Ilowden, a miner, sued the Yorkshire Miners’ Association In the King’s Bench to restrain them paying strike pay at Dinaby.' STOCKHOLM, January 16. Seventeen thousand people are threatened with starvation in Northern. Sweden. Many are eating moss. Energetic relief is being organised. PARIS, January 16. Lieutenant Leugerke, acting first „ officer of the Vineta at the sinking of Castro’s war ships, who had been summoned to Europe to report to the Kaiser, committed suicide at Havre. BERLIN, January 16. A sensation has been created in orthodox circles- owing to the Kaiser patronising the lectures of Professor Frederick Delitzsch, the famous assyriologist, embodying the latest results of higher criticism. It has been arranged that the Princess Louise is to receive thirty thousand marks per annum. Divorce will be pronounced on the 28th. She wiil not he allowed to see her children if she continues relations with Giron. The Princess, however, intends to contract a civil marriage witli Giron.

ST. PETERSBURG, Jail. 15, The Czar’s susceptibility to pulmonary trouble has induced the doctors to urge the transfer of the Court- to Lividia. MELBOURNE, Jan. IG. The Federal Customs receipts for the six months ending December amounted to *4,770,000. ' SYDNEY, Jan. The gale has abated.