LATE GABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 817, 4 February 1903, Page 2

LATE GABLES.

SYMPATHY. Received 12.52 a.m., Feb. 4th. Loudon. Feb. The Princo and Princes? of Wales have telegraphed their sympathy to those lost in the Orwell, the destroyer that was accidentally cm down. A MEMORIAL. The- Prince Christian Victor Memorial at Windsor has bee dedicated. Received 1 2.85 a.m. Fell. 4th. Ear! SelbouiUu is suffering from rheumatism. and has caneeiieU bis engage-

ments. The Norwegian steamer Avona has been iost oil the coast of Untuara. Tt:e crew, numbering 24, were drowned. It transpires that tbe Russo Persian commercial agreement completed, which becomes operative un ttie 14th hist., introduces specific instead of the ad valorem duties levied under the Turkamunchi treaty -the latter has been in operation since February, 1828. The new agreement abolishes tite majority of the Persian ex port duties, tolls, and the system of fanning out taxes, and establishes Persian customs stations. Persia is arranging with Russia the details of payment of customs and storage, free storage for a period ot twelve mouths being allowed. Reddy, member of Birr division of King’s County, has been released a month before the expiration of his sentence for unlawful assembly.

Ottawa, Feb. 3. By a fire at t Fiuuishmeetiugat Malcolm, British Columbia, eleven people perished and fifteen were seriously injured. Received 1.10 a.m., Feb. 4.

Sydney. Feb. 8. The Boer delegates sail for New Zei land on Saturday. They expect to remai about a mouth, aud then return to Aui tralia.

Melbourne, Feb. 8. Sir E. Barton stales that be knows nothing of the New Zealand proposal to obtain a training ship for boys. Ho is inclined to think New Zealand is auxious to have the services of one of the gunboats. In that case it would be attached to the auxiliary squadron if the new naval agreement comes into effect. The agreement makes no provision for a training ship for boys, so tho fresh proposal is one that New Zealand adopts ou its own responsibility, and not a matter upon which the Federal Government could have anything to say.