LATE CABLES

Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 68, 4 December 1902, Page 2

LATE CABLES

SERIOUS STRIKE RIOTS

TWO KILLED—MANY WOUNDED

By Telegraph—Press AssociationCopyright.

LONDON. December 3. Three thousand strikers at Yladidavicay, at Host nr on Don, stoned the Cossacks, wounding ten.

The strikers refusing to disperse, the Cossacks tired a volley. Two strikers wore killed and nineteen wounded. Similar scenes were enacted, at LichoreUkaia.

NEGOTIATIONS WITH COLOMBIA

AMERICA AND THE CANAL. NEW YORK, December 3. Negotiations with Colombia are progressing. Mr Hay has secured a clause conceding t.o America perpetual control of the strip of land necessary lor the Canal.

TRIAL OF MAJOR GLEN

FOR PUNISHING TREACHEROUS GUIDES.

NEW YORK, December 3. Major Glen, of Manila, will shortly lie re-tried for executing native guides who misled the column at Samar.

LAND VALUES AT ORANGI

BOOMING THE PRICE. CAPETOWN. Dee. 3. Land values at Orange have doubled as compared with 1899.

PROTESTANTISM IN KOMI

COMMISSION OF CARDINALS

ROME. December 3. IBs Holiness the Pope lias appointed a commission oi Cardinals to provide for the preservation of the faith against Protestantism in Rome.

STRIKE AT MARSEILLES.

THE DETAINED PASSENGERS ROME, December 3.

The strikers at Marseilles have supplied crews to convey the detained passengers. The crews of Die tugs have .Rimed the strikers.

PAPAL CONSISTORY. ROME, December 3. The Papal Consistory has been postponed to February. STORMY SCENES. Berlin, Dec. 3. Stormy scenes and deadlocks in the Reichstag continue. SHANGHAI. Berlin, Dec. 3. It is scmi-officially announced here that tho date of the withdrawal from Shanghai is dependent on the availablo transports. BAD SERUM. Bombay, Dec. 3. luuoculation in tho Funjaub has bccu suspended. Bad serum caused 10 deaths. The contamination is attributed to changes suggested by the Plague Commission in tho method of preparation. OUR FRIEND. Rome, Dec. 3. Signor Frinotti, the Premier, states that Great Britain is permitted to cross tho frontier of tho Italian hinterland in Somaliland. Italy had exerted her utmost authority to prevent contraband arms, and ardently dosired to maintain and consolidate the traditional friendship with Great Britain.

LABOR CONFERENCE,

Sydney, Dec. 4, The Australian Labor Conference have passed a resolution urging a Foderal navigation law for the protection of Australian shipping against unfair competition, providing for tho supply of lifesaving and other equipment ; n White Australia, and Federal old ago pensions to bo adopted as planks, It is suggested that tho money for tho latter be provided from direct taxation. Motions were carriod in favor of National life and fire insurance and Commonwealth bank issuo. Tho Conference declared against tho continuance of the naval subsidy. If any mouoy was available for naval defence it should bo devoted to the formation of a navy ownod and controlled by the Commonwealth. Mr McGowan, leader of the New South Walos party, strongly opposed tho determination as unwise and impracticable. A motion was passed that the military policy of the Commonwealth should bo defensive, not offensive, and the military oxponditure should he reduced to that spent in the year prior to Juno COth, 1899.

THE MONOWAI. Arrived, 3 p.m., the Monowai,