GENERAL CABLES.

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 4824, 29 November 1902, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

THE GERMAN TARIFF. (Received November 28, 10.44 p.m.) BERLIN, November 28. Count von Bulow’s majority in tno Reichstag embraces clerical Conservatives and National Liberals. His concession is regarded as quite inconsistent with tho statomont made in the Reichstag on tho 10th October that tho tariff would affect brewing barloy, agricultural implements and machinery. An announcement that tho majority intended to pass tho tariff cn bloc enraged tho Social Democrats, and, after wasting hours, tho debate was adjourned. THE BRITISH ACADEMY. LONDON, November 23. Lord Roay has booh elected first president of tho new British Academy, A WARSHIP FOR SALE. (Received November 29, 0.16 a.m.) ROME, November 28. The Turkish battleship Messudich.t which is being converted into a modem warship at Genoa, is to bo sold to defray expenses, owing to Turkey failing to meet instalments duo for work done. TROUBLE IN SUMATRA. LONDON. November 27. The natives of Acheon, in tho northwest of Sumatra, shot aryl sank a Ixirgo belonging to tho Dutch Military Department. A lieutenant and twenty men wero drowned. _ , A STRIKER’S BRAWL. LONDON, November 27, Keefo. chairman of a strike connnittoo at Swansea, has been sefatenood to twelvo months’ imprisonment for maliciously wounding an imported workman. THE WAZIRIS. BOMBAY. November >27., The expedition against tho Waziris on the North-west Frontier is drawing to a close. ATMOSPHERIC PHENOMENA. ADELAIDE. November 28. In connection with tho recent peculiar atmospheric conditions, tho light-house-keeper at Port Darwin reports that the hazy smoko which appeared on the 13th was still hanging round on the 24th. At times it rolled up like a bank of fog, but perfectly dry. It was accompanied by a smell like coalsmoko, or when water is thrown on firo. THE NORTHERN TERRITORY. ADELAIDE, November 28. With reference to tho cablo message announcing tho formation of tho Eastern Cattle and Cold-storage Company, to develop territory on tho Port Darwin sido of tho Gulf of Carpentaria, at a meeting of tho Northern Corporation, Mr J. S. Butlers, who, on behalf of tho corporation secured largo pastoral leases on tho Roper and Hodgson Rivers, in tho Northern Territory, stated thaf a Scotch syndicate was negotiating for the purchase of half the corporation’s interests for £25,000. MINOR ITEMS. PARIS, November 27. The manager of tho Esperanto Insurance Association of Paris has absconded with three million francs (£120,0001. NEW YORK, November 27. Tho poor of Now York are paying 121 dollars (£2 10s) for anthracite coal. A blizzard is raging in the Northeastern States of America. Owing to trusts controlling the supply'of turkeys in America, the price of gobblers has increased one quarter. SYDNEY, November 28. Two men have died this week from injuries received in the cricket ;field. MELBOURNE, November 28. Two men, who recently broke into Pentridgo Gaol, Rave been sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment each, and a third to two years. I HOBART, November 28. At tho Axemen’s Carnival, Thomas Pettit, a Tasmanian, won the world’s champion chop.