LATE CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 912, 10 June 1903, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

By Telegraph. Press Association. Copyright Received, 11.8 p.m., June 9.

London, June 9. In the House of Commons Mr Brodrick stated that an ono. mous stock of unwashed military blankets stored in Capetown took tire by spontaneous combustion. Eighty thousand wtro sold for £1495. owing to an officer’s error of judgment. ~ Capetown, June (?. . Tho Transvaal Legislature has sanctioned the exclusion of colored persons and aliens from the municipal franchise. New York, June 9. The American squadron has been ordered to Valparaiso owing to social disturbances. London, Juno 9.

All Abyssinian General asserts that there arc English prisoners in the Mullah’s cauip. They are supposed to bo ctlieers oi Major Plunkett's force wounded during the recent lighting at Jumburru. Negotiations for their exchange for prisoners held by the English are proceeding. The Sunday hospital collection at St, Paul's Cathedral totalled illoOO. Captain Wells, Chief of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade, has succeeded K. W. E. Middleton, as chief agent of the Conservative Party, Paris, June 9. Thirty-fivs hundred French troops, with ten guns, are operating against Figig- Six hundred melinite shells, fired by the French gunboat Mussie against Zenaga, occasioned much damage. If tho Arabs continue stubborn, other villages will be bombarded, lieceived 12.5 a.in., June 10.

London, June 9. In the House of Commons, Mr Austen Chamberlain said that it was inadvisable to appoint a select committee to inquire into the question of mail contracts. An inter-departmental committco would elicit full information. A big question had arisen in connection with the Australian contract. The British Government wus precluded from excluding any British subject from employment oil the ground of color, and it was doubly impossiblejin any contract wherein India was a party. The House approved of a vote for sending a relief ship to tho Discovery Expedition. Received 1.4 a.m. June 10. Sydney, June 9. The full Court has confirmed the sentences of Jones and Grand, tho Auburn murdorors.

Received 10.22 p.m., Juno 9. Sydney, Juno 'J. The Rev. George Lane, President of the Australasian Methodist Conference, has received a Doctorship of Divinity from tho Victoria University, Toronto. At tho Mayor’s quarterly luncheon tho guests included Lord Tonuysou, Admiral Rawson, and tho Admiral and oflicors of tho Japanese licet. Lord Tonuysou said that forty years ago Imporial Federation was a grand vision. Now it was almost a practical reality, uud would bo complcto wlion tho colonies decided on closer union (or tho common good. Tho preamble of a grand schemo of federal dofcncc had boon signed on tho battlcliold of South Africa. Proposing the toast of tho Japancao navy, ho said he considered tho alliance would contribute to tho peace of tho world pud tho advanco of civilisation. Admiral Kamimura, replying, said that tho alliance with Great Britain was viewed with iutenso gratification in Japan. Melbourne Juno 9.

In tho House Mr Deakiu, in moving tho second reading of tho Judiciary Bill, said that it was practically the sumo bill as was introduced last year. Combined with a Proceduro Bill to follow, it would provide a complete equipment for a High Court. The object was to croato an Australian Court of Appoul which would decide finally matters aflocted by local laws and so minimise tho number of cusob sent to tho Privy Council, with attendant delays and great expense. Touching tho delay aud dangers, ho Baid it took tho Privy Council from one to five years to doal with appeals, tho average being 21 months. Ho instanced tho recent Now Zoalarid case to show tho risks of appealing to the Privy Council on questions of purely local laws. The totai cost of tho High Court ho estimated at thirty thousand pounds annually.