LATE CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 847, 23 March 1903, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

By Telegraph- Press Association—Copyrighi

Received 12.56 a.m., March 23. London, March 22. Home buyers are keenly competing for ulerinos and crossbreds, and continental uuyers lot' Meanos. The total bales catalogued to date are 133,672, sold 124,452. A thousand people attended the King’s Court, held yesterday, including Mr Reeves and many colonials. One pom-pom is being issued to each cavalry regiment in the British army. Received 5.4 p.m,, March 22. Paris, March 21. The total of the three years’ deficit in the French Budget is twenty-five million six hundred thousand pounds sterling. The Budget Committee recommends economies in the army and navy, aud reorganisation of fiscal administration. Fresh taxation will be announced. Loudon, March 21. The Daily Express slates that a woman’s bkuil nas ueeu touuU in the out nuuse uf Moat larrn. Further remains were unearmed ut an islet in ms Moat. l'ue Imperial Fuud Supplies Company .mo ucquneU cold storage aeeCuinuiuUutlou at Poplar, with connection by railway with companies commencing operations in riiaogow, Liveipool, Maucnester, Noitinguuui, and Bnsiol. Obituary : Charles Godfrey Loland, author ot Hans Breetmaun’s ballads aud other books ; aged 70. Received 5.14 p.m., March 22. Sydney, March 22. Sailed last evening, the Monowai, for New Zealand. The hearing of the Lawson bankruptcy case has been adjourned tin Wednesday. The insurance on building aud stuck of Heutsch’s bond totals 4i1d0,50U, distributed amoDgst thirty-three compauieß holding direct policies. It is understood that a considerable amount is reinsured. On the stock the South British holds a line of £2360, and the New Zealand a similar amount. On the building the New Zealand has a line of £4275. Received 1.7 a.m., March 23. Sydney, March 22. The trustees of the Sydney Cricket Ground have donated £4OOO to the Drought Fund. A rumor was current hero that General Hutton had resigned owing to political interference with his reorganisation of defences. General Hutton .emphatically denies any intention to resign. He states that at no period since he assumed command has there been so much hope of the successful issue of his scheme of reorganisation as now.

Brisbane, March 22. Hamilton, of New Zealand, won his heat in the diving contest. Prospects of .the complete break up of the drought are more hopeful than ever. Good rains still continue.