LATE CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 486, 28 July 1902, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

THE KING,

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, July 26. The King steamed round tho Isle of Wight.

BRITAIN AND CHINA. Britain and China havo settled the terms of the now commercial treaty.

CHOLERA EPIDEMIC. A hundred and eighteen iresh cases o: cholera have occurred at Cairo.

RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.

A circular has been issued by the French Premier, enforcing tho Religious Associations Bill. It exempts charities, orphanages, asylums for aged, also schools which were previously allowed a delay of six years to become lay establishments.

HANDSOME DONATION

Tho King has handed the King's Hospital Fund a donation of .£IO,OOO, given by it. Lucas.

BOWLING TEAM,

Footli Selland, the well-known bowler, has announced that he is unable to arrange for a team of English howlers to visit Australia this year.

A TRAGEDY,

Sydney, July 27. A tragedy has occurred at Buunaby, near Goulburri. A selector named Lewis attacked his wifo with a hammer, and then attempted suicide. He took poison, and is at present in a critical condition. Tho parties lived unhappily.

SHEARERS’ DISPUTE

Melbourne, July 27,

A conference of the Pastoralists’ Association and Australian Workers’ Union to fix the shearing rates in Southern Kiverinu proved abortive. The shearers demanded 25s per hundred, but the Asso eiation refused, though they were willing to make some concessions. Troubio i 6 likely to result.