GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 837, 11 March 1903, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright. London, March 9.

Mr Justice Wright ordered Sir Blundell Maple to pay Loates, the jockey, a retaining fee of two thousand for the season 1902, on tho ground that Loates, though temporarily incapacitated by an accident, obtained his license when able to ride. Smallpox at Birmingham is spreading. The Moroccan Pretender insulted the chief of the Thouls tribe, who then bound him hand and foot, and sent a messenger to King Menelik, offering to surrender the Pretender with the Thouls if the Thouls were pardoned. Owing to the expiration of the Bridgewator trust Earl Ellesmere has inherited his ancestor's, the Duke of Bridgewater’s vast canal properties. New York, Mar. 9.

The structural ironworkers of the United States are agitating for an increase on May Ist. They allege that they aro not sharing in the country’s prosperity. It is expected that half a million men will be thrown idle owing to the employers’ re-

fusal to consider the request. Venezuela has re-estaolished the blockado of the Orinoco and Guanta Oaralmo. The protocols of the bloekaders, gazetted at Caracas, have been coolly received. It is stated the Venezuelan Congress is unwilling to approve. A severe prolonged earthquake has

been felt at Dominica. CONSTANTINOPLE, March 9. The Porte is engaging German officers to reorganise the gendarmerie. BERLIN, March !). Bishop Treves lias withdrawn his threat to excommunicate parents who persisted in sending children to the Prussian High Schools. PARIS, March !). Tile Premier is closing the Good Shepherd Convent, and legislates respecting 23 similar 'institutions. OTTAWA, March 9. The Premier of Ontario is endeavoring to secure the immigration of 5000 mechanics for various industries CAPETOWN, March 9. A Lascar on a Bombay steamer died of plague at Capetown after the passengers had landed.