LATE CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 426, 27 May 1902, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

RIOTS IN RUSSIAV By telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. ST, PETERSBURG, May 26, Troops suppressed a revolutionary demonstration at Saratofl, south-east Russia. BIG DONATION.

The Czar has given ten thousand pounds to the Martinique fund. LONDON, May 26, Yuanshikais’ opposition will probably secure the rejection of a German firm’s offer of fifteen (not fifty) million taels for an opium monopoly, though Ching advocates its acceptance. A LIBERAL OFFER.

Instead of presenting the Imperial Government with a cruiser the Natal Government offer to contribute thirtyfive thousand pounds annually io the Navy. ' MODERN CRITICISMS, The United Free Church of Scotland by 531 to 263 adopted a motion of the Rev. Prinoipal Rainy, First Moderator of the United Free Church, that, it was not the duty of the Church to proceed against the Rev. George Adams Smith, Professor of Old Testament History at the United Free Church College, Glasgow, in tonnection with his book published last year, entitled “ Modern Criticisms, and the Preaching of the Old Testament,” though the Assembly did not accept the critical theories advanced in the book. MAN REFUSES MILLION-DOLLAR POSITION.

The German press asserts- that Ballin, manager of the Hamburg-Amer-ican Steamship Line, has declined Mr Pierpont Morgan’s offer of the managership of the Navigation Syndicate at a salary of a million dollars. CONVALESCENT SOLDIERS.

Surgeon-Captain Baywell and if :eutenant Taplin, New Zealanders in South Africa, are convalescent, ami have resumed duty. DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH.

The Knighthood of the Garter has been conferred on the Duke of Marlborough.

BURGLARS. PARIS, May 25. Fredrick Humbert’s studio at r.irfg has been burgled. It is suspected that influential people, fearing to he implicated in the Humbert frauds, employed burglars to seize incriminating documents, MAIL SERVICE. „ SYDNEY, May ?.6, Mr Spreckles has arranged for the mail boat to leave Sydney every third Monday, commencing with the Ventura on June 23rd. The boat will leave Auckland on the following Piiday, arrive in ’Frisco in twenty-one days, and enable the mails to be delivered in London in 31 or 32 days.