LATE CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 901, 27 May 1903, Page 3

LATE CABLES.

By Telegraph —Press Association—Copyrig Received JO.IS p.m., May 26.

London, May 26. Mr Balfour presides at the Allied Coin nial Universities dinner (,n July JUth. Il is expected that as a result of thy conference an Imperial Conference wdl bo formed to deal with questions affecting general university education. A famine causing terrible suffothtg prevails in South China. Thirty thousand women and children have been sold i.uo slavery since February. The Korea" bsovornmont ordered 100 arrest of the Koreans who are selling their land and buildings to Russians and Chi neso. New York, 'day 20.

Two hundred thousand men in Great ni New York ;u'e idle, owing to strikes urn; lockouts. Constantinople, May 20. Tho Albanians have released the members of the Sultan’s peace nits.,ion. Received 11-il p.m., -tty 26. Constantinople:, May 20. Heitcheff, creator of tec .MueeUooiim revolutionary organisation, was km-d in a skirmish at Piuiitza. His death is likely to paralyse the movement. St. Petersburg, May 20. Prominent Jewish financiers in Bondon and llerlni are bringing pressure to 0-;ar upon tho Russian Government to prevent further Jewish massacres. *vi. Ho V'/ltte, Russian Minister of Fin nice, warned Inc CV.ar that, a repetition of the massauros would he disastrous to Russia's fiuai.ee, Tho Czar has ordered tho suppression of Jew baiting. London, May JO. Tho British and American delegate i to the International Telegraph Conference to be Jjeld in Bunion have i)ten instruct! d to oppose the compulsory adoption ot the new cable code.

Tho military at Capetown sold blankets at did apiece. Twenty thousand were retained in South Africa and one hundred and eighty thousand were shipped to England. The British Mercantile Marine Committee report that the objections against the employment of foreign acumen do nut apply to Lascars and other Asiatic British subjects who are especially mol ill as firemen in hot climates, and competent to act »3 stokers of war ships. Iteecivcd lI.bO p.m., May 26. Adelaide, May 2G. hi reply to the mining export’.-, recent oondcjunacory report, au oliicicti return has been publimed showing that the Government buttery at A.ltungu crushed between October loth and March olst Gib tons Irom the White range mines, yielding Sl7 ounces, and I fill ions from other Arilimgti u mes, yielding 1H l ounces. Received 11 21 p.m., May 2G London, May 20.

Bicjlmmurns followers, assisted hy Tiji chiefs, tin eaten valuable inim-nry convoys oil lim Morocco and Algerian irontier. The French are sending troops to protect. All oincr l’owers oppose iho British and American proposal to allow China to pay tho indemnity in silver.

Mr A. li. Biiavv, til a speech at Chester, said there was no divergence between Mr if hfour's and Mr CimuiDoilain’s pielerenulul trade p tlicy. l'nis revealed that tho speeches had been arranged beforehand. Earl Beauchamp, addressing tho Bitliiinglmm Liberal Club, said he wgs eonlidcnt Jonn Bright would have pulverised tno preferential tariff proposals. Ho added that England was unable to imperil tiie trade of the whole world for tho sake of the Colonies. Now York, May 2(3. A tornado at Nebraska did half a uiillicui pounds worth of damages. Twentyono persons woro killed. The towns of Nuimuu and E,in field were destroyed. Received 12.24 a.m., May 27 London, May 26.

Tlie Derby betting is—lb to Bon Rock Sank, JUO to 11 against Veuieias, 15 to 2 TTuatsani, If to 1 Mead, 20 to 1 llabelais. Sydney, May 26. It is reported here that tho Tasmanian hop crop nas Doen cornered up till 1906 by loading New South Wales brewing concern i. Brisbane, May 26. Sailed: The Jcssoric, for West-port.