GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 934, 6 July 1903, Page 4

GENERAL CABLES.

FRANCE AND ENGLAND

■ARBITRATION AND. CONCILIATION.

By [Telegraph—Press [Association—* .Copyright. PARIS, July 3. The Debats states that M. Delcasse has decided to ask Great Britain to conclude a permanent treaty of arbitration and conciliation. President Loubet will discuss the matter during his visit to London.

THE COTTON “ CORNER.” A RECORD DEAL. LONDON, July. 3. Mr J. Pi Brown, who controls the cotton corner, paid cash for 88,900 bales of cotton at market price. This is a record transaction in the history, of cotton.

GREAT BRITAIN AND BULGARIALONDON, July 3. King Edward’s message to King Peter does not affect Great Britain’s policy and its relations with Servia will not be immediately, resumed.

THE EDUCATION BILL. LONDON, July. 3. The Lord Mayor of Sheffield is a passive resister of the education rate.

NATIVE LABOR. CAPETOWN, July 3

Sir Gordon Sprigg says that good comfortable treatment in the Transvaal would suffice to attract native labor, and a Dutch meeting at Heidelberg condemned the introduction of Chinese labor. TIENTSIN RAILWAY. PEKIN, July 4. The final award of M, De Triug, arbitrator in the Tientsin railway siding dispute, shows that, the railway acquired the land prior to the troubles of 1900. The railway company thus triumphs over Russian claims at all points.

THE PERSECUTED JEWS. WASHINGTON, July, 4. President Roosevelt, in what is practically an official announcement, states that he has determined to forward the Hebrew petition to the Czar. The situation is delicate, hut ■it is unofficially stated at Washington that Mr J. W. Ruddell, the American Charge d’Afiairs at St. Petersburg, will discover if the petition will be received, and if an answer lin the negative is given, the matter Will end.

t EXPLORATION. LONDON, July -3. An ethnological expedition under the auspices of the Royal Society and Royal Geographical Society is to start for New Guinea in August.

AGGRESSIVE BOERS.

Two thousand Dutchmen attended a meeting at Heidelberg. The Standard's correspondent says that Botha’s tone was aggressively hostile. He complained that amnesty, pledges had not been fulfilled, and he hoped for a complete amnesty, .within a fortnight. The t'aal was treated as a foreign language.; Boer teachers ought to conduct the education. The Dutchmen must retain their land. The moderates regard the meeting as the initiative of a highly dangerous movement.

IRISH' LAND BILL., . LONDON, July 4. •The committee of the Irish ‘land(lords resolved that Mr Wyndham’s concessions endangered the .working of the Bill unless remedied, as landlords .were unable to sell.