LATE CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 872, 23 April 1903, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright. Received 11. Pi vm „ April 22. NEW d ORK. April 22. Albeit Attains, a w. ahliv iolury organ* iscr. nicknamed He Policy King'of New lva. ii - uvi v liter,e.d ;i year’s imprisonment lor keeping a belling establishment. Joe -V" fork Bu.. s :i;.hin't m cor-re.-ponuen: su.-v Unt I’resifern 1;,,,.-, v v m-u-rmim-! pro-.,. ;pn: u-mmn - expressed iksiic for tin most complete -amity with America v appreciated, mid xviil be met more than ha,; way. He informed tiie Cabin.. that ho would brook no continuance or their .subordinates’ efforts to create in Anuriea the impression that Germany is Am.-rica’s enemy. Berlin, April 22. The Gcrma.ii.Asiatic Railway Company has been incorporaiL-Li with half a million sterling capital, nominally to construct Chinese State railways. Received 11.24 p.m., April 22. Loudon, April 22. The Lord Mayor opened the Baltic Mercantile Shipping Exchange. They are tne handsomest and eompletest in tho world, costing half a million. Ln connection with Colonel Cobbe’s capturo uf hiteeu hundred camels, Lieut. Miller, commanding twenty Somalis, charged a party of the enemy in the bush, himself killing eight. llis horse was speared. The infantry arriving, killed sixty and captured six. English employees at Fez have refused to depart unless the French military mission quit simultaneously.

Ring Edward has arrived at Syracuse Bay. Mr Balfour stated that no change has taken place in tho Bagdad railway question. Tho Times’ Vienna correspondent states that an official despatch from Constantinople asserts that many Albanians have been arrested there. l’recantionary measures have been taken in the Albanian garrison m Ziiias, where suspicious elements have been exiled. William W’astcneys, barrister of New Zealand, Inis been declared bankrupt on his wile s petition. Tiie liabilities are live thousand and assets ml. In the course of the examination lie attributed his failure to iiis wife’s litigation. Mr Hanbury, speaking on tiie Agricultural Vote, said that owing to tho profitable use made of offal in Chicago it paid Americans better to send dead meat than live cuttle to Great Britain.

St. Petersburg, April 22. Tho Russian Geographic Society is sending a scieiitilic expedition to Mesopotamia. LATEST MESSAGES.; Received El2 a.m., April 2d. LONDON, April 2d. Tho T'inics says that it. is almost, inconceivable how Britain should have entertained Ihe Bagdad railway scheme. Them was no single gain in return for tint sinking of British capital, besides gratuitously irritating Russia, mid it is harder to helicve how any British .statesman, mastering the papers, could for a moment, liesiiatc in action towards the project. The concession was sighed on March oili, also tiie Company's, statutes. They prove that the promoters rely not on earnings, hut on a kiloiuelrie guarantee at the cost ot increased duty on British sea-borne trade. Tile Anatolian railways owning the concession invites indispensable foreign capital, Imt ensures real control in German hands ; it obtains an extension of its own concession, and security of control for nearly century of Ihe Gonstaiitidople end of (be Bagdad railway, besides prospective contracts and privileges .secured lo (he detriment of Britain; utilisation of steamers on the iSlial llehrab, Euphrates, and Tigris, and the right lo establish ports' at Bagdad, Basta, and Zubeir ; a branch terminus,' uiiicli Hritaiii is invited to assist, iu constructing at Koweyt, where Britain does not admit tiiat such rigliis are at the Sultan’s disposal. The completion of the. Konia-Bugdnd iVailWny must precede tiie working o.vmv Jiassa-iUgdad section, a prohibition winch prevents ilie natural development ol British trade from the I’erxian Ciuii inland.

SYDNEY, April 22. Jhe I runners’ Conference lias eonchided. H, resolved that the iStalestie compensated for properties taken over by the Coiiunonweall.il, by payment m cash, or in Commonwealth bonds oi .'H per cetif.; that debts of llu; lutes should he taken over as uoon as possible; that aliens natiirafo*d in one Shite should not be considered aliens in another Slate; that the Slates maintain I lie right of directly communicating with the Ii penal Government on matters within their own powers, without reference to tiie Commonwealth.

NORFOLK ISLAND, April 22. the. Council oi. Eiders has resigned in a body as a protest against (lie dog tax ; also tu direct attention to other grievances.