LATE CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 907, 4 June 1903, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

By Telegraph. Press Association. 0 <pyru-i t Received M.M p.m.. June ■>. NEW YORK, June 2. The filial fatalities a! Topeka were liny. There were about the same number in Kansas City , and fifty in Kalb Valley, Arizona. LONDON. June 2. News jias been received that, tin* country 'between Gunnaii, Tsien, and Tonkin is in a stale of rebellion. Two hundred French subjects were surrounded at Yuuanfn. The construction of the railway to Mougntis interrupted. I-'tfty-Ki.v Mmifs wort' killcii and twenty wounded m tile attack on M. Jounart. ROME. June 2.

Father .Schuller, a German, Ims been elected \. icar-General of the Franciscan Order, in succession to Father Fleming, who has been appointed secretary to the Pope's Biblical Commission.

BRUSSELS, June 2. At the International Congress at Brussels, Mr B. Pickard, President of the Miners Federation of Great Britain, presided. A resolution claiming eight hours us a day's labor was carried unanimously. Received 11.43 p.m., June 3.

LONDON, June 2. Mr Copeland,, in a loiter to the Standard, reviewing Australia s trade, says that if m the next lurty years liie increase is at the same rate as it is now, it will he worth an effort on the pari of the Mot norland to secure and retain the lion s share. .Should the diversion of the trade to foreign countries continue to grow, or would the Empire traue ehtinnel he made more atiractiu* After urging that there was no need

to tear me Woi Id m iiseal anus against Great Britain,if .Mr Chamberlain's policy is adopted, .Mr Copeland adds : “ This is already the ease. Whereas Cobdeii aspired to a doublesided reciprocity. British manuka’turel's and producers cannot satisfactorily carry on n mamiiaciureis, having the cheapest white labor, mid an ever-open maiKet wherein to undersell British products. Mount 1 lee la is active, and is emitting sulphurous llames and dust. Two and a nail naileries have left Ain Sefra for Belli Omni. The latter will in future he a base against Kigig, which will he occupied temporarily.

OTTAWA, June 2. The Lieutenant-Governor oi British Columbia, has dismissed Colonel prior, the Premier, and summoned Mr Macßeride, leader of the Opposition, to form a Cabinet. PARIS, June 2.

The German cruiser Ama/.oiie, wnik conveying mails lor Prince Henry: squadron at Brest, grounded. Shi was refloated, and is being repairei in the naval dockyard at Breste. Prince Henry's visit to Madrid i: interpreted to foreshadow close economic relations. SYDNEY, June 3.

Mr Robson, a Legislative Councillor and a member of the Methodist Commission which recently visited Fiji to enquire into tile slate oi the missions there, declares that the agitation for federation with New Zealand, notwithstanding the ceaseless efforts of two or three people, is freezing out —in iacl is dead beyond resuscitation. Any proposal to federate with the Commonwealth would so far as the Fijians are concerned, meet with the same fate. Arrived, at L3U a.m., the steamer Warriinou.

JL 1. ilt I It ) #in 11 v • Scotch claims to have invented a Hying machine which will travel one hundred miles an hour, and cany weight up to a thousand tons. No balloon is used. It is purely a mechanical contrivance driven by a gasoline motor. The military authoiiLies have forwarded particulars oi the invention to the Defence Department at Melbourne.

Received 11.5 p.m., June 3. LONDON, June 2. Chinese Imperial troops have retaken the town of Luianfu, which anti-dynastic rebels recently caplurThc Chinese Resident has advised Thibet to settle commercial relations with India in a friendly spirit.. Lord Curzon intends to re push the mountain railway across the Himalavahs into Thibet. The Daily Mail states that Lord Curzon will visit and remain 1,1 England for three months, and will be reappointed Viceroy for a term of two years, Lord Nortlieote, Governor of Bombay, acting as Viceroy in the interregnum. Gustav Ran and William Smith, two seamen sentenced to death in

connection with the murders on tho barque Veronica, have been executed at Liverpool. The Dublin University Council lias recommended the admission of women. ST. PETERSBURG, June 2. It is reported that the Czar intends to promulgate a new law of succession, enabling liis eldest daughter to succeed, failing the birth oi a son. CAPETOWN, June 2.

The Gauss lias readied Capetown all well. Site was icebound for a year. She reached sixty degrees 30 minutes south latitude. They communicated with the Discovery expedition. Received 1.57 p.m., June 3. LONDON, June 2.

The Financial News strongly supports Mr Chamberlain’s and Mr Balfour's preferential policy. 11 predicts that Unionist dissentients will commit political suicide unless they .support Mr Chamberlain. Fifteen thousand looms have been stopped in .South-east Lancashire in order to curtail the production of cotton goods.

The Rothamstead trust is appeal ing for State assistance in order t extend its field of agricultural cxpei iments.

Moorish troops brought to Feztwt heads and two hundred Kabyle prisoners.

The cricketer Shrewsbury, (who committed suicide) bequeathed one thousand pounds to the Nottingham Hospital. Playing against Sussex Gilbert Jessop scored 286 in less than three hours.

NEW YORK, June 2. The Supreme Court a 1 New Tori refused a writ of habeas corpus in re gard to Whitaker Wright, and declared his offence extraditable. ST. PETERSBURG, June 2. Russia declines to place further orders for warships abroad. PARIS, June 2.

Lightning exploded the submarine mines at Cherbourg harbor just as a German liner was entering. She hud a narrow escape. NEWCASTLE, .June 3. The Norma lias been safely towed in. HOBART, June 3. Arrived, at- noon, t lie Ruapehu, from London. Received 11.21 p.m., .June 3.

LONDON, June 3. The first-class battleship Exmouth has been commissioned to replace the Victorious on the Mediterranean sta-

tion. Moorish soldiers under French officers are proceeding via Algiers to reinforce the Figig garrison. The French force will summon the Leaugua tribe to surrender the murderers and looters ; otherwise their stronghold will be bombarded. CAPETOWN, June .3. Mr Nourse, representative ol the

Johannesburg Chamber of Mines, has recruited one thousand natives at Lake Nvassa. One thousand others are anxious to go south.

The Gauss wintered well off newlydiscovered land in latitude 62.2, long 89.18.

BRUSSELS, .June 3. At the instance of tlie British delegates tiie Miners’ Congress passed resolutions favoring fixing the minimum wage and nominating Jliners’ Union candidates for Parliament.

LONDON, June 3. According Reuter, the pnopcct of a o:n; high e.iinmis.’i'in to sci lie oul.-.t..iHiing quest ions between America and Canada is less hopeful- It is hinted in olUtiui circles in Washing!,m :!i.i • r Mi i :,.iDi.-ru.iin !,.:s l.ekl nut :';.e hope o pniereuii.il i leal m. . il . . ill.lire .Ve 1 hat *'• - da i, h’s.s u•*s 1 1 ■ : evp; nci; v v. nil A;: i: . . i ■ V.h.s.gii 1 autin i lvs tk . nci.-ci .-.u> S • visit :<>ii "i oiiiei i minor - ih eel Adl’.lll.ii Pi lined P.v be. M placed nil lhe id : list . nl I.:- own nquest. v?r t'hambiT 1 .! I 'i 1;. s invited seven mingh.un LiluT.ll L IIIIUIPM AissiK'M11.hi lo a gulden party -a his t.irmilighaiu residence on the 2hth. King Edward aiiends the review al Aldcrshol on the 22nd NEW YORK. June 3. Half n million dollar.' damage was done at Gainsville m two mmul.-s. The tornado was pn'ceded by a lew minutes of iltßv blackness and hot. s . uiiii- aw. Two upper stones oi a u jjil. crowded With operatives. was

1 n'i (>i| and earned liuniircus oi teei. Railway stations, churches, and a score oi collages were demolished. The sun was shilling again within live minutes. , Six hundred square miles southward of Keokuk was inundated. The loss of property m Kansas city is twenty million dollars. Si. Louis is threatened with a dis-

astrous Mood. Received LI a.in., -'uni- ■ BERLIN. June 3. The Nurd Deutsche Zeltung denies that Germane punished t anada. Ihe tar ill law was automatically opci alive It denies intending with < “ relations of tlie Motherland and the colonies. Britain on several occasions had emphasised that the coUuncH must lie considered as countries \y U iheir own larit'i system. Hence they were treated as independent customs

LONDON, June 3. Mr l laldme, speak,ng at Ast lmto.i, said lhai national wealth 'yes increased by the free import <>i _i aw material and free import oi ; Income tax icuinis showed a sin \ growth of wealth. A duly on I ; would hem-tit some enemies , " “ colonies would ask lor a .In y m, n material. A preicvci.tm duty ui wool would rum Bradioid. I 'i( ki. note of federation was the ic.Ri-’J; thin of Ihe Empires common puinoses. including defence, Impcii.J Court of Appeal, federal mil, nlucat ion system, improved means ' transit. Mr Cliaiuhcrlain s |iolu y was a Jaap in tJu* k. The Stiiiiilard, commenting <m Hu. Nord Deutsche article, says that H was an indefeasible doelrme that ... colonial concession lo the Motlu - I iiul was sul.iecl, I<> the c.mscni m approval of outsiders. The assumption that England occupies "si a y the. same position as an alien stale was now disowned. , . The 'rums, mpl.-i.-c« Germany s sett ; tific adjustment of duties, 01 withholding according to the pamem.ii class or conditions. Commenting on the divergence between Australian statesmen and the Australian press, the same paper says that protection in Australia wonh not be held to exclude arrangements of a business kind which the ingenuity ol statesmen may devise. It was necessary m tho meanwhile, so far as the Muthcrlana was concerned, to instruct the constituencies of the dangers threatening should the economic tendencies of the work. at>a‘g° develop as they promise to do, to tho dts advantage of this country. Received 1.40 a.m., June 4. Sydney, Juuc o.

Sailed : 5.1 J p.m-, /.ealandia, / The schooner reported m distress at Broken Buy was the four-masted American schooner Resolute, with a cargo of timber for Sydney. 'I ho tug irou M 1 « , vessel to Sydney. When oil North Hhd in a heavy sea the line parted, and the vessel drifted perilously close to the rocks before the tug got her again. Received 1.00 a.m., Juno 4. Melbourne, June !).

In the. House Mr Bruce Smith, debuting' the Address-in-Reply, scathingly condemned Mr Barton. He taunted him with lacking courage to submit the preferential trade question. Little did Mr Chamberlain know of the wretched, miserable parochialism of public men here when he expected he would get great assistance from them in furthering his m-pa* ideal of Imperial unity. Sir L. Barton had adopted an extraordinary paradoxical attitude in regard to preferential trade. Assurance was given by Sir E. Barton in London that he would submit the question to Parliament. Ho had doubtless given Mr Chamberlain some sort of hope to me.-t that reoi rocky which he regards as indispensable to tho movement. Mr Smith said that personally lie regarded tho preferential scheme as impracticable.

Received 12.2 ami., June 3. London, June 3. Tho Co operative Societies Conference at Lancaster approved of the formation of an Industrial Provident Society to work the State quarries near Penhryas, and to provide employment on equitable conditions for the workers at tiro Bethesda quarries. Brisbane, June 2.

It is expected that Parliament will meet the second week in July. It is understood the Electoral Bill will provide for the reduction of the Assembly from 72 to 56, of whom two will probably be representatives of the Civil Service and railway men. New York, June 2.

A tornado in Georgia killed eighty cotton operatives and a hundred and twenty otheis. There was great destruction of property. Fifteen thousand Philadelphian strikers secured tiieir demands, and ninety thousand others have struck. All the ingrain carpet mills are at a standstill, lhe employers threaten to close the mills for a year. Capetown, June 2. Tho German Antarctic ship Gauss has passed Durban, bound for Capetown.