LATE CABLE NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 323, 25 January 1902, Page 2

LATE CABLE NEWS.

By Telegraph—Press Associauou—Uepyrigbi London, Jan. 23. William Redmond visits America to continue his brother’s campaign. Mr' Wanklyn shoit'y n o’. ■ s and Mr Watson seconds an amendment on the Address-in-Reply, urging the prosecution of pro Boors tor seditions utterances. Hi will quote Mr Seddon's utterances. Kruger in a note in the Hutch Press, in reply to Air ChamM Jain, says that the Boer leaders claim complete indepen deuce, and that negotiations are hopeless without it. Robbers wounded a German lieutenant patrolling at Chunling Chong. Berlin, Jan. 23. A German Imperial Loan has been covered sixty fold. Paris, Jan. 23. The warship Charlemagne has been ordered to Tangiers in connection with the murder of two French officers on the Algerian-Moroceon frien tiers. LONDON, Jam 24. A satisfactory trial of a British submarine boat has been made at Barrow. The vessel attained a speed of ten knots. Mr Fitlitz, who has been appointed Professor of Modern Languages at the Wellington University College, has sailed in the steamer Barharessa. Blockhouses at Kleatesdorp, Iteuterdorp, and Zeerust have been completed, continuing the work on to Mateking. MELBOURNE, .Jam 24. In the tariff debate a proposal has been made to place linotypes, monolines, and kindred machinery on the free list. Fine rains have fallen. BRISBANE, Jan. 24. Fine rains have fallen in the Central Divisions. Floods are reported in various directions. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. REASON WHY SCHEEPERS WAS EXECUTED. AGITATION IN IRELAND. By Telegraph Pt ess Association—Copyright LONDON, Jam 24. Mr Brodrick, in the House of Commons, stated that Scheepers was executed for seven cold-blooded murders o'' natives and flogging white men. Mr Balfour said that no ueace proposals had reached Government since July from anyone able to speak on behalf of the Boer leaders. Mr Redmond moved an amendment complaining of the refusal by Government of a measure for compulsory land purchase as a revival of coercion and suppression of free speech. He also declared that resistance was a duty, while rebellion was a question of expediency.

Mr Hayden, in seconding the motion, asserted that there were two thousand branches of the land league. Mr Wyndham, in reply, said that out of two hundred qnd eleven now boycotted, only twenty-seven were attributable to the league. He admitted that twenty-six leagues had branches exercising a prejudicial economic effect. An ill-considered seneme of compulsory land purchase, lie said, must defer for years the housing of the British poor. The Government intended to further all necessary agricultural and industrial prospects in Ireland.