LATE CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 429, 30 May 1902, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

CUBAN REPUBLIC. By telegraph—Press AssociationCopyright. LONDON, May 29. Great Britain and France have officially recognised the Cuban Republic. CORN DUTIES. One hundred and seventy trade union delegates, representing a million workers, met in London, and adopted resolutions protesting against, the corn duty, A REPRIMAND.

The Admiralty has severely reprimanded Lord Beresford ior some of his speeches, delivered while he was on full pay.

FRENCH MINISTRY. The Times Paris correspondent says that the new French Ministry will notbe formed before June 10th. M. Combes, Vice-President ot the Senate, ex-Minister of Education, and a strong anti-clerical, will probably succeed M. Waldeck Rousseau ior the Premiership. MR CHAMBERLAIN.Mr Chamberlain is suffering from a chill and gout. lie will tie absent on the re-assembling of the House of Commons.

NEW SOUTH WALES LOAN, There were over thirty-six hundred applicants of a hundred apiece for the New South Wales loan. They received the full amount ; other applicants a .small percentage. IMPRESSIVE FUNERAL, NEW YORK, May 29. Baron Pauncefote’s funeral was an impressive ceremony. Secretary Hay and the ambassadors of the other Powers acted as pall-bearers. President Roosevelt was present. Sixteen hundred troops escorted the coffin. MISSING EXPLORERS. “ George Kennan, an American explorer, with a journalistic companion, started to explore Mount Pelee a week They have not returned. " A QUEEN’S DONATION. HAGUE, May 29. Queen Wilhelmina has given a thousand marks to the SL Vincent runeb POLITICAL SPEECH. OTTAWA, May 29, Mr Tarte, Canadian Minister for Public Works, speaking at Montreal, said that if Pierpont Morgan bought the Canadian-Pacific line, Canada would build another railway. He declared that a fast Atlantic steamship service would be running within two years, He did not believe that Great Britain would ever accord Canada preferential treatment. OBITUARY. SYDNEY, May 29. Obituary : Captain Laidman, marine surveyor for the Underwriters, one time well-known in the New Zealand trade. BALMAIN COAL. There are encouraging developments of the Balmain coal mines. Since the men started driving, the seams have considerably thickened. The company is now selling eighty to one hundred tons of coal a week. Tests have proved to be of good quality, ENGLISH BOWLING TEAM, Advices have been received that ‘ail English bowling team of twelve or sixteen players is to sail for Australia in August^