ABRIDGED GABLES.

Wanganui Chronicle, 4 December 1901, Page 2

ABRIDGED GABLES.

There are 413 cases of smallpox in Lon don. . ■

Dillon, speaking at Loughrea, violently incited evicted tenants to forcibly regain their farms. Lenient sentences hare been imposed on a number of Germans charged with shocking cruelty and murder of natives in the Cameroona district. An association lias been formed at St. Petersburg to boycott British producers. It comprises 600 members. An armed Swede, named William Miller, lias been arrested at Philadelphia for declaring that President Roosevelt ought to bo shot. The Italian surplus amounts to 41 million lire. Italian consols have reached par. The running of Sunday trams has begun at 'Edinburgh, and many protests have been entered by tho churches. The London "Times" says the proposal of Mr Justice Hodges, of Victoria, for a new Appellate, Court would form a wonderfully strong Court, and pne which, would command the respect of the whole Empire. A Melbourne cable ways that further representations have been mado hy the Presbyterian Church to Mr Barton on the subject of French aggression in the New Hebrides. Mr Bai'ton, replying, stated that in February last he recommended the Imperial Government to establish a tribunal to deal with land disputes, more frequent visits of warships, periodical visits of the Hi«h Commissioner of the Western Pacific, and the appointment of a British Resident. The Imperial Government agreed to all except the land tribunal, which is still the : subject of communications.