GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 902, 28 May 1903, Page 4

GENERAL CABLES.

By Telegraph —Press Association Copyright.. BONBON, .May, 21!. The Daily Telegraph states that, the Royal Commission to ileal with the question of Tralles Union relations with capital and labor will consist. of the Right lion. A- O. Murray Lord Advocate for Scotland (chairman) Sir W. Thomas, Lewis Arthur Cohen, K.C., Sidney Width (member of London County Council), and Sir Godfrey Lushinglon. , . , Commenting on Mi' Cluunbei him s despatch on Lite claims of the South Australian Government to report direct to the Colonial Cilice on certain matters, and not through the Federal Government, the Standard says that the controversy reveals a rock upon which the Federal Constitution might conceivably lie wrecked. It hopes the danger is more imaginary than real. .. The battleship Audacious will shortly lie stationed at Felixstowe, which lias been selected as the new lia.se for the torpedo-destroyers instruction ID >Li 11a. German advices state that, it is intended at Tokio that every mail steamship leaving Japan lor Korea shall carry lad male and 7a female .Japanese colonists to settle in Korea. Russians complain that the Japanese are over-running Korea and Manchuria, and wresting away, the trade. , , , The Korean Government, ordeied the arrest of the Koreans who are selling their land and buildings to Russians and Chinese. Two men, named Porter and I lesion, have been arrested at Sileby, Leicestershire, for shooting Constable Wilkinson dead. It is believed that they, intended to shoot another constable, who was active against poachers. The motor race accidents in P ianee have caused extra precautions to he taken in connection'with the forthcoming great race in It eland. A Canadian Society of four hundred members has been formed m London, with the object of promoting trade relations on a pieleienLial basis, and intercolonial communicaUOIIS ’ PRETORIA, May 2(1. The standing orders require that all speeches made in Dutch in the Transvaal Legislative Council shall he made through an interpreter. CONSTANTINOPLE, May 2(1.

One hundred Macedonians in Smartest KasLoria district, using dynamite bombs, had a severe fight with

the Turks, whose artillery destroyed the village. The whole hand was annihilated.

NI3VV YORK, May. 30. Tito Irish Industrial League has l)ooit incorporated in Netv York lo assist the fanners of Ireland. It is Imped that it will raise a million dollars during the current year. PARIS, May 20. The newspaper Matin has opened a fund to assist in equipping Dr Charcot’s expedition, whose object is to search for the Swedish Antarctic expedition under Grotto Nordenskjold despatched, last year. Despite the rules forbidding polities an aristocratic French yacht dull voted for M- Wakleck-Rosseau’s non-el-ection. Many members thereupon resigned and established a rival club on a non-political basis.