LATE CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 898, 22 May 1903, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

By lelc-graph—Press Association—Copyright Received 10.-10 p.m , May 21

Ottawa, May 21 Canada has extended to September iiOth the limit within which goods purchased in Germany prior to April 10th may cuter without surtax.

New York, May oy A firm at Chicago handling a bug- p , iv t of the Californian fruit trade Ins tailed. The liabilities arc three million dollars. Received 12.-10 a.tn.. Muv 22

rmis, May 21. In the Chamber of Deputies M. Combes justified the prohibition of preaching by members of suppressed preaching orders. They were entitled to secularise and obtain ihc same rights as other priests, but secularization must be effective and regular. A Radical proposal to separate Church and State was negatived by i>7B to 2-17. A motion of confidence m M. Combes was carried by PK> to 2i>7. Received 12.4 b a.in., May 22. Ottawa, May 21. Blizzards and snowstorms in Burniieru Alberta, Canada, have caused losses of cattle and other stock lo tho extent- of fivo million dollars

New York, May 21. Yesterday was tho hottest 20th ever recorded in'New York. Received 10.-12 p.m,, May 21 Sydney, May 21. A plague rat has been fouud at Woollooiuooioo.

Ilanna has been sentenced lo death for toe murder of his wife in March last. A man named Hiluiro has been remanded for sentence for bigamy committed in Auckland in March, lsilH. At the outset the judge reserved the question of jurisdiction for the Full Court. Objection was raised that the second marnago look place outside New South Wales. The point was also noted that there was no evidence that New Zealand was a British possession, or that bigamy was a crime there.

An application for a writ of attachment against Laws, bankrupt, a rule absolute was granted, and ordered to lie at his office for ten days. Bankrupt explained that lie had no intention to ilout the order ot the Court to file accounts which are now in course of preparation. Ho stated that he had endeavored to realise the estate, but negotiations failed. BRISBANE. May 21. A fatal case of plague lias occurred at. Buudabcrg.