GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 440, 12 June 1902, Page 4

GENERAL CABLES.

By Telegraph—Press Association — .Copyright. PARIS. June lu.—Lieutenant Bemlie, esperimenting with a naval balloon at Toulon, tell into the sea and was drowned. BERLIN. June lu.—The Reichstag read a second time a Bill sanctioning the recently adopted Brussels Sugar Bounties- Convention. VIENNA. June 10.—Austria-llungarian sugar manufacturers are protesting against the Indian sugar duty. WASHINGTON. June 10.—The House of Representa-

tives has passed an Anti-Anarchist Bill by 175 votes to 38. A motion to omit the section making the killing of foreign ambassadors punishable by death was lost. LONDON. June 10.—Fifty Boer officers at Bermuda attended the Governor s “At Home.’’ They were delighted at the friendly attitude of the officers attached to the garrison. The War Office grants a special gratuity to the troops in South Africa who have served more than eighteen months for additional service after the end of last year. The Daily Mail states that Kruger on Saturday ordered the removal of the Transvaal and Orange Free State flags from his villa. At Utrecht the municipal and church clocks have ceased to chime the Volßsleid. The barbed-wire fences between the blockhouses within the late war area have been removed.

SYDNEY. June 11.—The Protestant churches have arranged to hold a united service in the Town Hall on Coronation Day. The State Premier has cabled to Lord Milner on behalf of the people of Australia asking him to welcome as fellow-citizens the brave men recently in arms against us, and expressing a conviction' that their membership of the British Empire is an everlasting guarantee of freedom. The Daily Telegraph says it is staled on good authority that ten thousand tons of damaged wheat in New Zealand . is available for feed for the starving stock if the duty is taken nfT, also a considerate supply of mangolds, turnips, hay, and chaff, is available from New Zealand, but not in large quantities. MELBOURNE. June 11.—The Senate has placed straw on the free list, and reduced the duty on oilmen’s stores to 15 per cent. An amendment to reduce starch was lost, the voting being equal. In the House, Sir George Turner said the financial position or the States and the prospect of a falling-off of revenue made it 'absolutely Impossible to avoid borrowing to construct necessary works. He proposed to es. lablish a sinking fund of 2 per cent in connection with loans.