LATE CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 839, 13 March 1903, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

By Telegraph—Press AssociationCopyright. Received lu.-lo p.m., March 12. LONDON, March 13.

Inconvenience is arising owing to the delay in filling Mr Clarke's vacant-} on the Pacific Cable Board.

Ellesmere states that the Bridgewater trust expires in the \ autumn, leaving him neither richer nor poorer since ne had received an income from Bridgewater estates for thirty years. The Westminster Gazette says that Mr iSeddon’s threats against tne London money-lenders are nonsensical, suggesting that he is prepared to cut on ms nose io spite his face. Mr Wyndham announces that the recent gales have caused irreparable damage to Phoenix Park. Thousands of trees have been destroyed.

While Sir Frederick Jeune was summing up, Lady Gordon left the Court and disappeared with the child. Her husband states that he is not aware of her destination. He expected to find her at home at Calais. A telegram states that she arrived there early yesterday, and proceeded to Paris.

Reuter’s Aden correspondent reported that a battle had fatten place between the Abyssinians and the Mullah. A thousand were killed. The Mullah’s mother was captured. Received 1.J7 a.in., March 13. SYDNEY, March 12. Good rains have fallen in the Riverina.

The driver of the Melbourne express had a sensational experience near Wagga during the heavy rain storm. The line was under water. The rain fell in a perfect cataract. The water was driven into the engine, and it was with the greatest difficulty that the fire, was prevented from being extinguished. The Chilian training ship Baquedano has arrived from Valparaiso. The examination of Lawson, the bankrupt, has been adjourned until the 19th, accounts not having been tiled. MELBOURNE, March 12.

Both Houses have appointed seven managers eacii to confer on the Reform Bill. The Labor party complained of not being represented. The Premier said that the party had absolutely apposed the Bill all along. Sutherland and Randrup have qualified in their heats for the Sydney ±IIOOO cycling handicap. Frank Kuhn, a well-known jockey, accidentally killed himself while handling a pea-rifle. BRISBANE, March 12. Gill, employed in the Government printing office, has been stricken by the plague.