GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 838, 12 March 1903, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

A WELL-PAID SYNDICATE

By Telegraph-Press AssociationCopyright. LONDON, March 10. Ar. Anglo-American syndicate for an indemnity of 140,000d01s quits the Acre territory, in dispute between Brazil anti Bolivia. THE STOLEN GOLD. ._

The Daily Mail minimises the story of the search for Kruger's gold at Delagoa Bay. The Standazd’s Hamburg correspondent is assured by the Consul I bat the story that a detective has been sent is baseless. ... CANADIAN STEAM SERVICE.

The Canadian Pacific railway ina.ii gurates a direct steamer service wit; Glasgow in April. THE OLD FRAUDS.

At the instance of the. Creditors’ Committee of the London Globe Finance Corporation, Mr Justice Buckley has ordered the official receiver tf> criminally prosecute Whittaker Wright at tbe cost of the estate.

V ESU VI US FI REWORKS. ROME March 10. Vesuvius is ejecting incandescen exploding masses.

A REBELLIOUS PASTOR. CAPETOWN, March 10. Pastor Brockhuyon, of Worcester, lias been committed to trial for a seditious prayer offered after the Ver eeniging peace was arranged. A DESERTED ARCHDUKE.

VIENNA, March 10

An actress named Anneta Adamovies abandoned Herr Evocfling, formerly Archduke Leopold, since he is without money..

ENGLAND AND RUSSIA. ... LONDON, March 10. Viscount Cranbourne, speaking in the House of Commons, said it was the opinion of the Government that an amicable understanding between Great Britain and Russia in regard to their respective interests in Persia and elsewhere was desirable. The question was now being discussed by the two Governments. „

ENGLISH POSTAL OFFICIALS FIND THEIR SENSES. LONDON, March 10. The Post Office has conceded to Marconi connection between Poldhu and the telegraph system. ENRAGED METHODISTS. SYDNEY, March 11,... The Methodist Conference decided

to memoralise the Imperial Government in reference to the affairs of Fiji, and to direct attention to the disturbing influence caused by the appointment of a Roman Catholic Governor and to the fact that the Cath-

olic authorities are unduly using circumstances to the advantage of their church and to the serious embarrassment, of the work of Methodists among the tribes whom they had evangalised. NEW ZEALAND FINANCE.; The Herald in an article entitled

“New Zealand Finance,” deprecates Mr Scddon’s reference to the moneylenders as undignified. It says British creditors can and will refuse to give him more money than they desire. It is quite certain that the colonial markets will only help him by making him pay a rate for the money which will probably weigh heavily on the people of New Zealand.

“ NO COMMENT TO MAKE.” Sir Edmund Barton thinks that the

proposed facilities to be given to the Eastern Extension Cable Company Would he fully counter-balanced by the replacing of a practically perpetual agreement by one for ten or twelve years. Referring to Mr Seddon’s statement on the matter, the Federal Premier said lie had no comment to make.; MR DRAKE’S OPINION., ...BRISBANE, March 11

Mr, Drake thinks the Canadian and New Zealand protests regarding the cable agreement are made without knowledge of the precise matter of the agreement. The State Premier says that the State Government has not yet had particulars of the agreement between the Cable Company and the Commonwealth, hut in any case the Government did nob view the proposals with favor.