LATE CABLES

Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 511, 6 September 1902, Page 2

LATE CABLES

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Washington, Sopt. 5. The Government denies the reported intention to annex liayti,

Pekin, Sept. 5. The Boxer proclamation issued at Canton, inciting a massacre of foreigners, is attributed to the commencement of tiie building of the Canton-Hnnkau railway.

Berlin, Sept. o. At the unveiling of a statue of Emperor Fredrick at Posen, the Kaiser, in the course of a speech, said lie regretted that a section of his subjects of non-German origin had experienced difficulty in accepting his Polish policy. It was a downright lie to assert that- he had any intention of interfering with anyone’s religion; nor would racial peculiarities or traditions be extirpated, lie added: “My duty is to see that the province remains irrevocably bound to Prussia, and to see it become a good Prussian and a good Herman territory.

Capetown, Sept. 5. 11l Parliament, Sir Gordon Sprigg introduced a Loan Bill providing X 2,795,000 for harbor, and XT,(316,000 for railway construction.

The Supreme Court at Pretoria upheld the right of the Boer Government to commandeer horses belonging to aliens in tho late war for the purposes of common defence.

New York, Sept-. 5. Tho Kaiser, M. Loubot, und tho Shah have congratulated President Roosevelt on his escape.

London, Sept. 5. Mr Scddon invited the Federal Steam Navigation Company, lloulden Brothers, Lucknalls Steam Steamship Lines, Elder, Dempster Company, Shaw Savill and Albion Company, New Zealand Shipping Company, Union Shipping Company of New Zealand, Ocean, J. I’. Corry, George Thomson, and McArthur Shipping Companies to tender for tho direct steam service between South Africa and New Zealand.

Tho Royal party are visiting Dunrobin Castle.

Lord George Hamilton is mentioned as suecessor to Lord Hopetoun as GovernorGeneral of Australia.

The Trades Union Congress, by a vote representing 961,000 members as against 306,000 rejected a resolution in favor of compulsory arbitration courts. They demanded legislation legalising peaceful picketing and restoring to unions tile rights imperilled by recent decisions of courts, also a clear definition of the law of conspiracy.