LATE CABLE NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 350, 26 February 1902, Page 2

LATE CABLE NEWS.

AIM V? W By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright SYDNEY; Feb. 25. A serious condition of affairs lias been manifest for some time in connection with Sydney’s tvater supply. There is sufficient water, but the means of conveyance are inadequate. It is estimated that it will be necessary to spend a quarter of a million to make the city safe against water famine. The first conference since Methodist Union has opened. The Rev. Wools RuUledge was elected President. £heating at the annual dinner of the Hibernian Benefit Society, Father Banbury lamented the decadence of an independent spirit among Irishmen, arid their descendants in Australasia., “ We are now,” he said, “entirely and directly ruled from the Mother Country. Whatever is dictated by the Imperial Government we must abide by.” “ The most prominent public men,” he said, “ did not seem to have the spirit to stand up and say, ‘ Australia will be a nation.’ If they had the real Irish spirit, that feeling would cmry out that policy here, to be loyal to no Imperialism, but to free institutions, and a free flag.’i MELBOURNE, Feb. 25. The Federal House has placed sheep washes and disinfectants on the free list. Dr Fitchett has been elected as the ill st President of the United Methodist Conference^