LATE CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 410, 8 May 1902, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

PICTURE OF THE KING

By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright.

LONDON. May 7

Lord Beauchamp lias commanded Mr Longstafl, a Victorian attist, to paint a portrait of the King :n Coronation robes for presentation to the Sydney Art- Gallery. The King accords a sitting soon after tie Coronation

HORSES FOR WAR DEPARTMENT q'he Daily Mail stales that the War Office lias abandoned the idea of breeding horses. Registration is considered" the most practicable and cheapest. Canada has agreed to nonish live hundred horses yearly, full grown and

trained by Canadian weal troops at an annual cost of twenty thousand pounds. Australia will also supply a proportion for Indian mods.

FRENCH AND RUSSIAN IN-

TRIGUEri

The Morning Post as. crts Russia supports ivlokukowsKi, the French Minister at Bangkok, in demanding the cession oi Lwang, in Prabang province. Siam’s independence 'is thus jeopardised. British attention is urgently called to the movement. RAILWAY ACCIDENT. NEW YjliK, May 7.

A train conveying pilgrims to Luurder was derailed near Amiens. Nine people were killed, and eleven injured. ' GREAT EARTHQUAKE. MADRID, May 7,

A severe earthquake lias occurred at Murchia. The tower ot the cathedral oscillated ; the facades of the cathe-

dral and convents were damaged ; schools and churches elsewhere .were damaged and closed. Boulders rolled down the Tuensandi Mountains. 'lhe shocks were felt in South France.. the dying queen. THE HAGUE, May 7. Queen Wilhelmina is weak, and her condition is very critical. SHIPPING.

SYDNEY, May 7. Sailed : Zealandia, for New Zealand. NEWCASTLE, May i. Sailed : Quiraing, for Dunedin, MELBOURNE. May 7. Sailed : Warrimoo, for New Zealand. FOUR CASES OF PLAGUE, SYDNEY, May 7. Four cases of plague occurred to-day, one being fatal. RACING. ADELAIDE, May 7. The Cup resulted : idler 1, Victory 2, Flagship 3. IdUr won easily.. Time, 2.511. Div., £5 12s. TROUBLE IN RUSSIA, ST. PETERSBURG, May 7.

Twelve thousand Poles demonstrated at Warsaw. The cm airy and police charging, killed several and woundea one hundred.

DEATH OF BRET HARTE. NEW YORK, May 7. Bret Harte, the well-known Ameri can writer, is dead.

DEATH OF ADMIRAL SAMPSON. NEW YORK, May 7. Admiral Sampson, of the American Navy, is dead.