LATE CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 695, 15 December 1902, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

TKh'ATY WITH ABYSSINIA. KKarra gka.ytki) to okfat BRITAIN. By telegraph—Press AssociationCopyright. LONDON, Dec. 'i. A treaty between Ore.it Britain ami Abyssinia was entered into in June last, helming the boundaries of Bntish •Soudan. Abyssinia grants to Ore.it Brtain tiie right to construct the .Soudau-Ug-anda railway line through Abyssmia : also to the lease of territory near Itai.g. on the Haro liner, as ;l commcreial station. 'ITIK TROUBLF IN MOROCCO., Till.' SULTAN SKLKS SIIKLITIH FROM TIIK STORM. el I’FOPI.K KILLKD THROUCir TRLACUMRY AND PANIC. MOROCCO, Deccinocr K>. The Sultan of Morocco is retiring to his .summer residence at Mekinez.. lie is sending strong remforc'incuts lo Fez. where, through the trent-fiery of a tribe in opening lire on the troops a panic occurred in a narrow valley.' result mg in eighty-three being lulled and many wounded.

HALF A MILLION’ UN l-.'MPLO Yi'D. KKIR riARDIF’S APPKAI.. LONDON.. Dec. 13. Mr Keir Ilanlie declares that there are lialf a million workers out of employment in Ureal Britain. lie urges the Uoveniincnt to devote CJoo,mm to supplement local cinrts It) provide work for the destitute. Tills DYING AKCIIDKAOON, SIR TIIOS, HARLOW SUMMON I'D. LONDON, Dec. 13. The two doctors a t tend in a; to flic Archbishop of Canterbury nave summoned Sir Thomas Harlow, physician to the King's household, to :t consultation. A bulletin issued at elevtn o'clock to-night announced a further loss of strength.

TIIO.SK hatters, FEDERAL 00VKRNMKN !’ RACKS DOWN, SYDNEY, Dee. J I. The detention <>i the hatters lias given rise to ;l good deal of adverse criticism in certain quarters. Sir .John See strongly protested to Sir E. Hatton against the detention of white labor imported tinder eon-.'act lor a special' (industry, as hemg opi used to the spirit of the lui.nigia'ion Restriction Act. Sir E. Barton, after lengthy co isaleration of the case, last, night ordered their release. Previously the Federal authorities had heen advised that sixmore hatters had arrived i>y the Dm ha at. Fremantle for the same firm, and not heen allowed to land. I’eritresion was also refused to an Indian lie a of importers in Melbourne to nr'itg out a mitnher of Brahmin expert workers in silk and Eastern goods,

THE ECONOMIST'S OPINION, LONDON, Dec. i.'i. The Economist newspaper 'ays Unit the exclusion of the hatters is inconsistent with the principles of the Imperial Conference, which aimed at the maximum facilities of Imperial n tereommunication ami maximum identity m legal rights enjoyed in tacit j: ; rt. of tlie Empire by citizens in ail. The law as enforced in Sydney is ;l dangerous encouragement to the South African labor party to shut Australians out or the Kami/ CYCLING IN MELBOURNE, MELBOURNE, Dee. 11. At the Austral wheel meeting the mile race resulted : Chatnpness 1, Gudgeon 2, Forbes .'i ; won by ;l wheel, the lime being 2.33 2-olhs. The ten-mile race resulted • Beauchamp 1, iMorgan 2, Lewis 3 ; won by a foot time, 21 min. Si see.