LATE CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 450, 21 June 1902, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

By telegraph—Press AssociationCopyright LONDON, June 2b. A Canadian Contingent of (100, incitiding a number who took part, at Paardeberg, received an immense reception at Liverpool. Lord Roberts reviewed 1200 Native troops at Hampton Court. His Majesty the King is better. Lord Salisbury presided at a Cabinet meeting at his London residence. Mr Brodrick has announced that the King is granting a second decoration to troops completing IS months’ rervice in South Africa. Mr Wyndham stated that he would drop the contentious clauses if the remainder of the Land Bill were agrefl

Mr Chamberlain said that the three millions mentioned in the terms of surrender was not applied to loyalists’ compensation. Compensation at the Cape and Natal, two millions, wouid be chargeable to the Transvaal out of the first loan raised, except the damage at the Cape by rebels, who were natives, which falls on the Cape Government.

Sir John Anderson, the Hons. Baillie, Bertram, and Cox, the Colonial Office having a representative of Mr Chamberlain, met the Hon. Mr Barton and Sir John Forrest at Charing Cross. The crowd loudly cheered Mr Barton while he was driving in the Royal carriage to the Hotel Cecil. Sir Michael Hicks-Beach’s statement in reply to Mr Morley, is favorably commented on on the Continent, especially in Berlin. Obituaries : The King of Saxony and Lord Acton.

SYDNEY, June 2(1. The steamer Mararoa has arrived from Auckland.

MELBOURNE, June 20. The Senate has reduced the duty on socks made of cotton, except those containing silk, to ten per cent.,- and yarns to five per cent. SUVA, ’.lllllO 20. The steamer Miowera arrived here last n ght-.