GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 710, 5 January 1903, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

By Telegraph—Press AssociationCopyright, LONDON, January 2. Portugal has arranged for. the exIradiction oi Owen, arrested at Lisbon, in , November, for embezzling money belonging to the Premier, Sunrise and other New Zealand' mining ! 1 companies. General Manning, who commnds the Somaliland expedition, has sailed for Obbia. Reuter asserts that. Great Britain and Abyssinia are co-operating to surround the Mullah. Colonel A. B. Rockfort and Major K. P. Cobboll have sailed to accompany the Abyssinians from- llarrar. Efforts are being made to secure the release 1 from Portland prison of Lieutenant Whilton, of the Bush Veldt Carbineers. 1-Ie has just recovered from an attack of enteric fever. .SAN FRANCISCO, January 2. Cablegrams have been exchanged between San Francisco and Honolulu over the newly .laid cables. PARIS, January 2, March end, a wealthy resident of '• Dunkirk, lent Madame Humbert nearly half a million sterling. lie does not intend to prosecute, saying, that money lenders compelled her continually to borrow. CONSTANTINOPLE, Jan. 2 •A Bulgarian band at Drenov fought a detachment of Turkish troops, killing and wounding fifteen, and afterwards escaping., The inhabitants helped the hand. NEW YORK. Jan. 2. The allies arranged also to submit to the Hague tribunal Belgian and Dutch claims on Venezuela. MELBOURNE, January 3. The Commonwealth net Customs and excise revenue for the year is approximately £9, 3-14,000, an increase of £755,000 over the previous year. The Imperial Government lias suggested that the Commonwealth should not accept any proposal to establish t.ie wireless telegraphy system without first consulting it. In accordance w til the suggestion the Commonwealth Government have declined a proposal by the Marconi Company to establish the system between Australia and New Zealand. SYDNEY, January 3. The barquentine Vision passed a quantity of wreckage, principally deck fittings, 120 miles, north-east of the Three Kings. It is supposed to have belonged to the Elingimitc. GERMANY’S DUPLICITY. EXPOSED BY TIMES CORRESPONDENT. LONDON, Jail. 2. Dr. Morrison, the London Times correspondent, makes a sensational exposure of Germany’s intrigue m endeavoring to handicap England in the Yanglse Valley, showing that Germany also deceived France, thereby securing her help to oppose the concession to Great Britain. FEAR-STRICKEN SULTAN, TRYING TO CHECKMATE TITE REVOLUTIONISTS. LONDON, Jan. 2. The Sultan lias ordered the release of and restoration of honors to Muby Mahomed, whom the pretender professes to desire to place on the throne of Morocco. French officers on leave have been recalled -to Algeria. A MODERN BUTLER, MORE MISSING WIVES, LONDON, Jan. 2. The police are enquiring into the iriennenti of another of KlosoffsWi s ; Chapman’s) supposed wives, also into the disappearance of his original Polish wife and two children at Whitechapel. SUPPOSED FATALITY, MELBOURNE, Jan. 3. Major Dallimore, who recently returned from South Africa, went fishing, accompanied by bis brother, and a young man named Wilson, near Cape Otway, and they have not been heard of since. A tidal wave broke on the coast the same afternoon, and it is feared the three have been rfiTOn r*rl