GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 861, 8 April 1903, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

RIVAL CLAIMANTS,

By; Telegraph—Press Association—< Copyright,; LONDON", April 6.

The Standard says that Great Britain lias requested the Congo Free State to evacuate Bahr-cl-Ghazel,La-do, and Enclave, (lie Belgians receiving a small terrieory on the Nile. HANDS OFF, BELGIUM ! LONDON, April 6.

It is believed iliat Belgium retires to a minimum distance of forty miles from the Nile, except at Enclave, and from Maliagi to Lado. BOAHD OF TRADE VOTE, LONDON, April 6.

The 'limes states that Mr Kilchie is including in the Board of Trade vole a grant of £3llOO in aid of the Engineering Standards Committee, A KAFFIR BRIGAND. LONDON, April (i. Bakborsl, a notorious Kaffir looter in the. North-west Cape, has been captured at Kenliardt, alter evading arrest for years. GERMAN EXPORTS. BERLIN, April 0. Since December last the German exports to the United Slates have increased IS 2-6til per cent. RELIGIOUS ORDERS, PARIS, April (!. Sixteen thousand members of technical orders in France, and three thousand preaching monks refused to 'accept, the authorisation laws. MUTINY AND MURDER, NEW YORK, April 6. The garrison of Puerto Cortez, Honduras, numbering two hundred, mutinied and murdered seven officers. ' .VENEZUELA PROTOCOL', NEW YORK, April 6. Mr Bowen rejected Great Britain’s and Germany’s amendment of the protocol, authorising the Hague to consider the Venezuela obligation to pay the cost of the blockade in the event of the Hague’s rejection of the preferential treatment claim.

A CLEAN SWEEP* HOBART, April 7. The Ministry has resigned. A Cabinet is being formed by Mr Propsting. THE CABLE ROUTES. BRISBANE, April 7. The Chamber of Commerce is dismissing the cable routes. A suggestion was thrown out that tho Pacific Board should send out pushing representatives to Australia lo secure contracts for that cable. It was decided to join the Melbourne Chamber in protesting against the ten years’ agreement with the Eastern Extension Company, A BAKERS’ STRIKE, BRISBANE, April 7. The strike of operative bakers is not causing inconvenience, owing to a .sufficiency of non-Union labor. One Unionist was fined seven pounds, anil three pounds costs for leaving his employment without notice, THE NAVAL AGREEMENT. MELBOURNE, April 7. Sir 'John Forrest denies that there will, he any negotiations to give .effect to the naval agreement prior to the meeting of Parliament.; AN ENORMOUS DEFICIT,< SYDNEY, April 7. It is believed that the railway revenue for the current year shows a shortage of a quarter of a million, which is largely, attributable to ,the drought. PACIFIC CABLE STEAMER, PERTH, April. 7, The Pacific cable steamer Iris unexpectedly arrived from London to-day She encountered the cyclone,- and some damage was done to her steering gear, fclku sails for Sydney, tomorrow.