LUTE CABLE NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 347, 22 February 1902, Page 2

LUTE CABLE NEWS.

By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyrigh

LONDON, Feb. 21

In the House of Lords Lord Onslow, replying to Lord Lamiiigton, ex-Go-vernor of Queensland, saiu that the Pacific Island Laborers Bill was a subject entirely within the 'Commonwealth jurisdiction. Doubtless care would he taken that laborers returned to their own villages. At the Bank of Liverpool trials, Francis Kelly and William Stiles pleaded guilty of conspiracy. Kelly offered to restore twenty thousand pounds, and .Stiles £3570 to the bank. 'Die Judge insists on the fullest possible restitution. Sentences wjll be passed on Saturday. Obituary : Earl Fitzwilliam. ADELAIDE, Feb. 21.

At, noon to-day the >S:otia had laid 13-13 knots of the Adelaide-Fremantle section of the Cape to Australia cable. Marconi assured the shareholders in the company interested mi his system that the post o ffice monopoly alone prevented the commercial utilisation of his system between Great Britain and Ireland. The same monopoly prevented commercial messages within jtliree miles of the shore limit. His system at present utilises seventy ships and twenty-five land stations, able to transmit twenty-two words per minute. The absolute secrecy of the system is a certainty. MADRID, Feb. 21.

Fresh fighting lias taken place at Barcelona. Supplies are becoming short. The residents are leaving owing to the strikers’ threats to employ dynamite.

ROME, Feb. 21

The Pope’s Jubilee has been inaugurated at Stopters province. Seventy thousand people were present.