LATE CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 428, 29 May 1902, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

By telegraph—Press Association— Copyright. LONDON, May 28. The Daily Express stares that Lord Kitchener will shortly be appointed Adjutant-General at the War Office.

Llewellyn has been selected as ihirteenth man in the test cricket team. It is rumored that Lockwood, who took nine wickets for 59 against Essex on the first Mav, was also asked.

Boer prisoners at St. Helena insist chat peace has been proclaimed, and are packing in readiness to return to South Africa.

The torpedo-destroyer Recruit lias been re-floated and towed to Penzance. Ingram, Bishop of Stepney, has informed the clergy of his diocese that

he declined to attend churches where incense was used, or where the general rules of the administration of the Sacrament are not observed.

i\lr Seddon, speaking at a complimentary luncheon at Capetown, said the colonies must help the Motherland

to bear the burden of maintaining the supremacy of the seas. The feeling at Ottawa favors reciprocal arangements between Canada,

Australia, and other colonies if Ureat Britain is not prepared to accept preferential tradeA deputation of the Home and Foreign Produce Exchange and Butter Associations, accompanied by the AgentsGeneral, asked Mr Hanburv to prohibit the manufacture and sale of milk blended butter. Sir W. P. Reeves

said that blended butter, if sold, ought to bear labels to that effect. Small

buyers would then understand what they were buying. Mr I-lanbury was sympathetic, and said it was hard if the colonies had to suffer. The deputation had better leave the matter in his hands. He thought speedy legislation necessary.

Count Tolstoi is dying. PARIS

May 28.—M. Loubet, speaking at a luncheon at Dunkirk, said that his visit to Russia had cemented the links of affection, honor, and interest of the allies. He hoped, he said, to induce moderation of the domestic quarrels in France. ST. PETERSBURG. May 28.—The Russian Treasury is paying the landlords ol Kharkoff and Pultava districts eight hundred thousand roubles for losses caused by the peasant riots. Sydney, May 28. Mr Copeland cables that there were nearly nine thousand applications for the New South Wales loan, aggregating 354 millions. The Premier claims this to be a record for Colonial loans.

Tho Council has adopted the Address-in-Reply. Tho Government referendum proposals in connection with the reduction of members were adversely criticised. Both Houses, also the Federal House, adopted an address congratulating the King on his coronation. A meeting convened by the ConsulGeneral of France and the Mayor adopted a resolution of sympathy with tho sufferers at Martinique and St. Vincent, and appointed a committee to collect funds. Municipalities throughout tho State will he asked to assist- tho movement.

In tho Assembly tho Loader of the Opposition moved an amendment to the Address in-Reply, to tho effect that the policy outlined in the Governor’s Speech in reference to constitutional reform and reductions of members involved a serious departure from what was put before the electors by the Ministers at tho general election, and that it was equivalent to a breach of faith with tho people and Parliament. The debate is proceeding.