GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 933, 4 July 1903, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

IRISH LAND BILL,

Byj Telegraph—Press Association-* Copyright. LONDON, 'July 2. The financial clauses of the Irish Land Bill have been agreed to. RECENT COLLISION AT SEA. LONDON, July 2. -The Court of Enquiry foand that the Orient liner Orotava was to ■blame for the recent collision with the Netherby.Y FIGHTING THE “ BEARS.” LONDON, July 2. Liverpool and other centres have shipped cotton to America, hoping to break the. corner there. One thousand bales have arrived, and another 1000 are due in a day or two. PENSIONING MURDERERS. LONDON, July 2. King Peter is willing to banish regicides on a military pension, if Russia and Austria consent. SOKOTO .CAMPAIGN. LONDON, July 2. Atarika, ex-Sultan of Sokoto, sent ■a message to the commander of the British column operating against him, that he did not desire to light, which is regarded as an indication that his followers are deserting him. THE BAGDAD RAILWAY,

PARIS, July 2. M. Delcasse rejected Germany’s offer that France and Germany, should each find 40 per cent, of the cost of constructing, the Bagdad railway. DRIVING AWAY CAPITAL.

Owing to the Income Tax and fears of progressive taxation in the event of a Socialistic regime, a large transfer of French capital abroad is taking place, weakening the rentes. BIG TRAIN COLLISION. ANTWERP, July. 2. ’A’ train containing Antwerp merchants to the com market at Brussels coliided with another, at Schaerheek. Twenty-one were injured and two have died. “ FINEST MEDICAL INSTITUTION IN. THE WORLD.”-

NEW YORK, July, 2. The trustees of Rush Medical Col-

lege have raised two hundred thousand pounds and presented it to Chicago University, thus ensuring Mr Rockfeller’s gift of one million two hundred thousand pounds for the establishment at Chicago of the finest medical institution in the world.. QUEENSLAND RETURNS. BRISBANE, 'July, 3. 1 The revenue for the year was !£3 I 526„000, and the expenditure ;S3917,000.

THE TRUST KING’S STAFF, NEW YORK, July 2

Mr- Correy’s appointment is regarded as permanent.’ Mr Morgan was dissatisfied with Schwab’s ventures outside thei Steel [Trust, especially, in reference to his dealings with the (United Shipbuilding .Company, mentioned yesterday,. f “'DARKEST AMERICA’. Two of the defendants in the slavery trials at Montgomery, pleaded ■guilty, and were sentenced to a year’s imprisonment. The 'judge declared the defenceless negro people guilty of no crime. They had been brought to Court, and by collusion of the Magistrate; deprived of liberty, forced to work, and been cruelly beaten.

.THE [VANCOUVER CONTRACT. BRISBANE, ■' July, 3.

Mr Pliilp resents the extension of the Vancouver contract at an advanced subsidy, without, (Queensland ■having been consulted.