GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 803, 19 January 1903, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

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Received 8.30 p.m., January 17.) CAPETOWN, January 15. The advance in Kaffirs’ wages is due to Mr Chamberlain’s strong criticisms, which are likely to improve the problem. Mr Chamberlain is still uncommitted to the importation of alien labour. Received 8.30 p.m., January 17.) LONDON, January 16. The Marylebonc Cricket Club has decided to instruct umpires to gauge the widtli of bats. Archdeacon Sinclair, of London and others have made numerous suggestions in order to preserve the city chiuShes. It is noticeable that the trade of London is gradually moving down the Thames, leaving empty warehouses on the wharves which are likely to he used as sites for housing the workers. So far no exchange of New Year greetings between the Czar and M. Loubet has been published. The Thames is frozen over at Marlow, tho ice being an inch thick. NEW YORK, Jan. 17. The conference proposed by the Kaiser to secure international law in regard to the use of wireless telegraphy is actively supported in the United StatesNicaragua declined to negotiate while Washington is negotiating with Colombia. BERLIN, January 16. At Karlsruche, a student named Ruff was sentenced to three and ahalf years’ imprisonment in a forttress for duelling and killing a fellow student who was inexperienced in the use of pistols. A banker’s widow named Oppcnlieimer Colin left the Kaiser £IOO,OOO sterling.

VIENNA, January 17. . M. Sziel, President of the Hungarian Ministry, was applauded when detailing in the Augsleich that there would he an early conversion of State notes into gold, and the establishment of a Customs tariff, common to Austro-Hungary, embodying higher duties to correspond with those of Germany. Thus a balance would be established between protection of Austrian industry and the protected condition of Hungarian agriculture. M. Sziel added that the tariff would .he a, defensive weapon in the negotiation of treaties. A similar statement was made by Von Koerber in the Austrian Reichstag, but was less favorably received. Received 8.36 p.m., January 17.) ROME, January 16. Obituary : Cardinal Parocchii the Pope’s right hand man. PARIS, January 16. Mademoiselle Borloz, belonging to a prominent family at Vichy, shot and nearly killed Abbe Jacquetrc for not fulfilling a promise to relinquish his ecclesiastical calling and marry her. ADELAIDE, January 17. The Premier sent a strong minute to the Lieutenant-Governor resenting his remarks at the laying of the foundation.stone of the Savings Bank, in which he delivered a warning to depositors against ejiy Government control of the Bank. It has been for some time a debatable matter whether the Government should not assume control The Premier thinks the Lieutei.ant-Governor made a mistake in volunteering a personal opinion. The Governor explained that he spoke as a depositor, not as Governor. HOBART, January 17. Sir E, C. N. Braddon is very ill. PERTH, January 17. At the Melba concert, a number of persons clambered on to the roof of a shed to get a view of the diva. The roof collapsed, precipitating fifty to the ground. Two women were inIjured.