GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 360, 10 March 1902, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Cnpyrigb LONDON.

March 7.—Kruger is bitterly disappointed gt President Roosevelt’s declaration that America will not intervene. lie declares he will not seek

further intervention, but let the Boers light to a finish. Wessels and Wolmarans have cabled advising Kruger to recommend the Boer generals to confer with a view to arranging terms. The delegates’ presence in Washington attracts little attention. In the Mouse of Commons, Air Brodrick, War Minister, confessed he had been unduly sanguine regarding the estimates of Boers in the field. It was impossible to distinguish fighters and non fighters. Unless they were very old or very, young, surrenderors were liable to serve under the commando law

The rebels under Vandermcrivcs were nearly surrounded in Vryberg district. Vandermcrive escaped. Thirteen rebels and three Transvaalers were captured. Prince Henry is suffering from the strain of prolonged travel in America. Crowds of roughs at wayside stations knock at the windows of the car in the middle of the night to arouse the Prince and demand speeches. Sir 11. Campbell-Bannerman’s speech on Wednesday has stiffened the Roseberyites’ determination to pursue an independent policy on the lines of the Chesterfield manifesto, and Air Asquith’s subsequent speech. Alany liberals adopt a non-committal attitude. Lord Rosebery’s following in tjie House of Commons is said to he small and he must rely on the constituencies. Sir Howard Vincent has given notice of motion in the House of Commons that any treaty restricting the rights of the Alotherland to conclude preferential relations with the colonies be not ratified.

Owing to the necessity for dealing with the Procedure Bill, water supply and Coronation festivities, tiic Government are likely to hold over the Education Bill and other promised measures.

The Times states that Lord Cadogan, Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland v attends the Cabinet to-day, and probably insists on stronger measures to repress the lawless, coercion of the United Irish League. The splendid presents that the Alikado is sending to the King’s coronation include a pair of vases representing seven years’ work by thirty of the best Japanese artists. The Waesland collision occurred in a fog. The coolness and discipline of the crew averted a panic. Two lives were lost.. The boilers exploded after the passengers were transhipped. There are fifteen hundred small-pox patients in the London hospitals. A fresh British expedition is being despatched against the Alad Mullah, who last year gave serious trouble in Somaliland. Yunshikai, Viceroy of Chili, strongly insists that the Civil Government of Tientsin he restored to China. He points out that it is unfair to continue to humilate the Government in the < eyes of the Chinese people It is believed that Germany is the obstacle in the way of a withdrawal. The Viceroy is grateful for Anglo-Japancse assistance, though he is- sorry China needs propping. The Kaiser will be the guest of the Czar during the Russian naval manoeuvres at Revel in July.

One hundred and ten deaths from cholera have occurred among pilgrims at Medina, Arabia. The King and Queen were to-day present at the laying of the foundation stone at the Naval College at Dartmouth.

A War Office order which has been issued allows officers and soldiers to wear spectacles. Dunecn Bros., a well-known London art collecting firm, have purchased for one hundred and twenty thousand pounds sterling, Mr James Garland's New York collection of Chinese porcelain. The Sugar Bounties Convention provides that it shall last five years. The surtax is to have a maximum of six francs on refined and 51 francs on other sorts of sugar. Great Britain does not discriminate between colonial sugars and those produced by the contracting States. Ratification of the Convention by the Parliaments of France, Hungary, and Germany is unCertain ' PARIS. March 7.—Troops arc being held in readiness for an expected general strike at Carmeaux. BERLIN. Mar. 7—The Radicals in the Reichstag complain that Germany is paying seventeen million marks for the Caroline, Pelew, and Marrianne Islands, which require an annual subsidy of three hundred and fifty thousand marks, while the revenue is only thirty three thousand one hundred marks. SYDNEY.

March B.—A Goulbourn police magis. trate, in dismissing the case ot a tradesman charged with breach of the weekly half-holiday, said the Go\ern meat were legislating against every thing but laziness. It seemed to be the aim of the Legislature not to make men work, but to make them n °An l °offici r al return shows that last uear timber in the shape of piles, sleeners and girders of the -value of nearly seventy thousand pounds wa. nearly . Zealand Govtl« co» a JoS Carr’s'engagement was bn March last, U poisoning will be continued next

Wednesday. MELBOURNE. s.'s# sa to do this, an overpowering m>P dls ° , ixtict: Maher’s life seized li ini - womaius hands were terribly cut m the St The S Argus states that on the arrivut of the st-amer Westralia at was found that some of her plates -eix den ed and the chocks damaged as the resu t r fi,e accident at Bluff harbor. i |ic aasr-ss several days. ADELAIDE-. arousing keen intere^J Great mowds ffSASSS* -» K on Monday.