LATE CABLE NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 284, 11 December 1901, Page 2

LATE CABLE NEWS.

By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright Paris, Dec. 10. The French Minister of Finance attributed the deficit of six million pounds to the South African crisis and granting bounties to military cadets. It is stated that France will be represented at the Brussels Sugar Bounties Conference, but will concede nothing without reciprocity. Vienna, Dec. 10.

Dr Von Koerber, the Premier, has threatened to suspend tho Constitution and dissolve the lteichsrath, unless the Budget is passed. A thousand Poles jf all classes participated in the anti-German demonstration at the German Consulate, Lemberg. The troops dispersed them. London, Dec. 10.

It is reported that Mr Andrew Carnegie supplies ten million dollars to lish the university extension system in America, with headquarters at Washington. The prosecution in the Bank of Liverpool case allege that the confederates systematically plundered Goudie, who benefited little by the robbery. English newspapers agree that the Industrial and Arbitration Bill now before the New South Wales Parliament is a great experiment and should be watched with keenest interest.

The Amsterdam dockers have abandoned the organisation o£ the European boycott against English shipping, owing to tho slight support the movement received. Sydney, Dec. 10. The Assembly, in reply to questions whether thoy had seen a cable inviting Mr Barton, as representative of the Commonwealth, and Mr Seddon, of New Zealand, to attend the King’s Coronation, and if the Premiers of tho various Australian States had been invited, Mr See said that all he could say was that he received no invitation, and was not anxious about it. Melbourne, Dec. 10.

Tho new Governor, Sir George Sydenham Clarke, and Lady Clarke arrived by tho Victoria. They were escorted up the bay by a torpedo boat, and met and welcomed by the Government steamer with a Parliamentary party aboard. They landed at St. Kilda, and subsequently thero was an imposing military procession. They were then escorted to the Exhibition Buildings, where tho Governor was sworn in in the presence of a largo and brilliant gathering. Tho route was gaily decorated, and was lined by great crowds of spectators.