GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 404, 1 May 1902, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

By Telegraph—Press AssociationCopyright. LONDON. April 29.—The post oilice officials consider Australia bound under the Postal Union terms to collect surcharges imposed in Great Britain. They contend that Australia is throwing upon Great Britain the financial loss resulting from penny postage. In connection with the new duties, Sir Michael Hicks-Beach proposed that banks shall return all cheques, when the drawers will be entitled to claim from any money order office a rebate of a penny on cheques under. £2:, The proposal is derided as childish and iutworkable. In connection with the shipping combine, the Admiralty have appointed the Earl of Camperdown, Vice-Admir-al Fitzgerald, Professor Biles, Professor of Naval Architecture at Glasgow University, Mr Buxton 'Porman, controller of packet services, and Mr A. D. Chalmers, assistant Parliamentary counsel to the Treasury, as a committee to inquire, and if necessary modify the subvention agreement under which the service of merchant cruisers is retained to the Government. The Daily Chronicle states that Sir Wilfrid Laurier, the Canadian Premier, is ailing, and will retire from the Premiership after the Coronation and Intercolonial Conference. During practice at hoisting and lowering boats on the warship Formidable at Madalena,. Sardinia, a lieutenant, petty officer, and seaman were killed. Tbe Times submits for the consideration of the Intercolonial Coronation Conference a proposal to unify the naturalisation lawsThe Gloucestershire County Council restores and ire-opens the ThamesSevern canal in October under urban control. Lord Charles Beresford, in a letter to the newspapers, says the publication in June last of his letter to a friend, wherein it was stated he was extremely anxious regarding the strength and proper war organisation of the Mediterranean fleet, was a grave mistake for which he alone was responsible. Lord Charles Beresford has already given notice in the House of Commons dealing with the efficiency of the Navy and Army. The Court of King’s Bench upheld the decision of Mr Kennedy, Magistrate at Marlborough 'street Police, Court, given in January last, refusing to grant a summons for reviving the penal clause of tbe Catholic Examination Act against alleged Jesuits. Tbe Protestant Alliance were the applicants for the summons. A tornado at Glenrose, Texas, killed seven and injured forty people* and caused great devastation. Three Dunkirk fishing schooners have been wrecked in a gale, and many lives . lost. NEW YORK. April 29.—President Roosevelt and every leading American paper have disapproved of Mr Shaw’s recent speech. PARIS. ’ April 29. Out of four hundred thousand Parisian voters, the Nation- , alists polled one hundred and sixty thousand. BRINDISI

April 29.—A relief expedition sent to Zaruja, in Central Soudan, captured ,thc King of Konlaroa and ten thousand followers. The King has been imprisoned at Lokoja and his followers sent to their homes, ST. PETERSBURG. April 2!).—'The authorities in Finland arc everywhere obstructing the enforcement of conscription. Disturbances have occurred at Helsingfors and Viborg, also at Tammersfors, the 1 crowds singing patriotic stings. The Russians threaten to use their firearms. SYDNEY. April 29,—'The troopship Norfolk passed Wilson’s Promontory at seven o’clock this morning. Tenders have been called in England for the electric lighting of Sydney. Another case of plague is reported. The strike of Newcastle coal trimmers has ended. The stevedores have agreed to concede the demands of the men, and also to pay baqk claims. Work was resumed this morning A movement, strongly supported in the press and by the public, has been started in favor of reducing the number of members of the State Parliament, and effecting other Parliamentary reforms, The Sydney Morning Herald, dealing with the American Treasurer’s speech, says amongst the most important interests committed to the keeping of the Commonwealth is the maintenance of Australian influence in the Pacific. After dealing with the growing power of America in the Pacific, the article states that the United States now stand as a naval and colonising Power. Recent events make it clear that it aims at becoming a commercially aggressive force in the maritime world Mr Morgan’s combination puts that beyond a doubt. The Commonwealth cannot afford to ignore such warnings.

MELBOURNE. April 30.—The Federal Govern ent

have appointed the Government Resident at Port Darwin and the Resident Magistrate at Broome as a Cornmis-. sion to inquire into the pearl-shelling industry.

The War Office has placed with Victoria orders for seven hundred and fifty thousand pounds of tinned meat for South Africa.

Obituary : Mr Downes Carter, aged 71. He was Treasurer in the Patterson Ministry.