LATE CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 897, 21 May 1903, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

By Telegraph—Frees Association—Copyright llc-ceived 11.17 p.m., May 80. London, May 'JO. Arthur Shrewsbury, the etiek-.-ter, suite-r----ing trout an internal complaint, committed suicide by shooting himself with a revolver. Sofia, May JO. The advent of the PvtrotV Ministry is considered favorable to peace. Received 1 a.tit., May til. Constantinople, May JO. The Sultan's mullahs sent to pacify have been carried to tile' mountains by Albanian ciiic is if an Ipi it. The au-hor ot an- i xp.osion at the Uttoman Hank at Saiouica has lieen arrested. Important disclosures lea to a lresh ois* covery of explosives. London, May JO. Mr Hay, basing his action on Russia’s pledges, insists on c.aiming an equality of commercial privileges enjoyed m Man churia by other nations, including Russia. Reuter says that Mr clay learns that Btiiain has notified China of her U’illilinness to accept, like America, a settiieim nt ol the' indemnity oil a si.ter basis, with a reservation for deficiency payments to be made in gold. Eleven Hundred Dervishes fiercely attacked Abyssinian. - * at Burtilli on the left batik of ihe Wcbishcbiii. Auer iignting -15 minutes they were repulsed. Twenty one Abvssmians and thre'c hundred Dervisties were killed.

Sc. Petersburg, May 20. Bogdanoviteh, Governor ot Ota, while walking m the Town Park, was shot head by two miscreants. Received 1.22 a m., May 21. London, May 20. Lord Onslow lias succeeded Mr Hanbury. Sydney, May 20. Arrived at 7 p.m., the Mokuiu ; sailed at 4.30, the Wtstralia. Sir John Lackey, President of the Legislative Council, has resigned owing to failing health. Melbourne, May 20.

An empty passenger train from Kcw ran into a stationary goods train at Hawthorn. The guards-v.ui was derailed. Tho guaid of the goods train, Lassan, had his leg cut off. Tho accident was due to tho driver mistaking the siguals during the flurry over the gauge-glass bursting.

The graduates oi Dublin University residing here have decided to memorialise the Dublin University to confer a Doctorship of Laws honoris causa on Mr Irvine, in recognition of his statesmanlike quality. Experiments conducted by Dr, McCarthy to produce raiu in drought districts is attracting attention. The method is to send up columns of gas obtained from chemicals, the nature of which is a secret. If this is done continuously for iJ2 hours it will produce rain over a range of ninety miles. It is alleged that on one estate near Inglewood an inch fell as the result of tho experiment.