LATE CABLE NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 361, 11 March 1902, Page 2

LATE CABLE NEWS.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, March 10. Seven hundred men in the railway workshops at Durbau have struck for an extra shilling per day. The Government refuses to concede the demand. King Edward and Queen Alexandra havo agreed to become patrons for a bazaar in aid of French charities in London in June. Chakir Pasha has been released by tho Turks. Tiie British and Japanese, with the support of Shanghai commercial concerns, are co-operating to elect two shipping representatives on the new Conservancy Board. The Germans complain that they ■are not represented, although owning onethird of the tonnage. Habibullab, anticipating trouble, asked Haddab Mullah io defer his visit to Cabul. Haddah is not expected to officiate at tho Ameer’s Coronation. Washington, Mar. 10. The ground of inexperience and also the question of status, especially as the Kaiser intended to invite her to Germany if she went to England, prevented Miss Roosevelt’s visit to London during tho Coronation. Sydney, March 10. Business men are protesting against tho Government proclaiming St. Patrick’s Day a public holiday, on the grounds of there being too many holidays. Tho Methodist Conference also entered a protest. Already twenty-six employers’ unions and fifty-two employees’ unions havo registered under the now Arbitration Act.

Light raius fell in the country districts to-day.