GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 711, 6 January 1903, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

•THE SULTAN’S CKUELTY

By Telegraph—Press AssociationCopyright LONDON, Jan. 4. Ten thousand Jews, residing in Fez, are indignant at tho justice and cruelty of the Sultan and his Ministers, and favor, supporting the Pretender, EVACUATION OF SHANGHAI/ LONDON, Jan. 4. The last German detachment has quitted Shanghai. A majority of the troops have returned home, ‘and the rest go to Singtan. The evacuation of Shanghai has now been completed, RAILWAYS IN CHINA. LONDON, Jan. 4. The British Chinese Corporation has secured an agreement foi the construction of the Shanghai-Nankin line of railway, instead of the preliminary contract of May, 1898. The terms follow the conditions of the HankowCauton railway. A PUNITIVE EXPEDITION. LONDON, Jan. 4. Six hundred Southern Nigerian troops have been sent to the town of Essen, whence they- start on a punitive expedition against a chief who persists in imposing a tax on British goods, plundering and l setting British authority at defiance* HOUSING THE POOR. LONDON, Jan. 4. The Glasgow municipality’.? scheme for housing the poor has collapsed, OFFICER IN DISGRACE, LONDON, Jan. 4. The War Office cancelled the dismissal of Major Cotton for surrendering the garrison at Helvetia during the Boer war, and placed him on the retired pay list, A NATIONAL COMPROMISE, LONDON, Jan. d. The Austrian Premier has arranged conferences between German, Czech, Moravian and' Bohemian sections, with a view, to arriving at a national compromise, DISLOYAL DUTCH, CAPETOWN, Jan. 4. The Dutch Church has circulated an order throughout the Transvaal, refusing the Communion to cx-National Scouts, or to baptise their children, CONDOLENCE, MELBOURNE, Jan, 5, Mr Seddon has cabled, through the acting-Premier, condolence with Sir Frederick Sargood's family, SOME FAST SCORING,

BRISBANE, Jan, 5, Carew, batting against South Brisbane, made 233, compiled in three hours. NEWCASTLE COAL. SYDNEY, Jail, 5, The coal export of Newcastle during last year was 3,104,000 tons, valued at £.1,528,000, a decrease of 138,000 tons, valued at £43,000, compared with the previous year. New Zealand took 24-1,000 tons, a slight increase, A CYCLIST. AS A REFORMER, A HARD KNOCK TO BISHOP. JULIUS, SYDNEY, Jail, 5, “ Major ” Taylor, the champion cyclist, addressed a meeting at the Wesleyan Church, He urged young men to abstain from cycling and other amusements on Sunday,, and to do only what was right in the sight of God to secure their own true happiness* ____________