LATE CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 919, 18 June 1903, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

FIENDISH MURDER. By Telegraph—Frees Association—Copyright Received 1 a.m , June IS. London, ,1 one 17. The boy Knowles has been committed for trial for the Stockton murder. The d- fence set up was that apple peelings found in tiie stomach suggested that death was due to convulsions, and that Knowles buried the child from f. ar. RUSSIAN FLEET. St. Petersburg. Jnn^lT. Govc-rumcnt is uunumg three lasttorpedo boats to snengttii-n the Black Sea fleet THE TARIFF QUESTION. KIR, HARRY KAWKONK DESPATCH.

By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright. Received 11. id p.m., June 17. LONDON, June 17.

Mr Balfour, replying at Mansfield regarding .Sir Harry Dawson's references to the Government's policy, said that the Colonial Ollice sent no telegram, hut Lord Salisbury sent a despatch in KS97, denouncing tho Berlin German treaties, and instructed the Ambassador to declare l la-

step intended to remove the harrier against the British Empire's internal fiscal arrangements as inconsistent- with the close tics of the com-t mercial intercourse which would be consolidated between the Motherland: and the colonies. Possibly Kir Harry Rawson had that in view in replying further. There was no reason to ask Kir Harry Rawson what declaration was referred to. PERSECUTED JEWS. REMARKABLE RETRACTION. ST. PETERSBURG, June 17.

Father John, of Kronstadt, after denouncing the Kishineff outrages, retracts his statements, saying that lie had received trustworthy private letters from Kishineff, which show the Jews were to blame for tiie outbreak.

POLITICAL CRISIS

PREMIER OF HUNGARY RESIGNS.

BUDA-PESTH, June 17. M. Szell, Premier of Hungary, ha resigned, owing to obstruction t the Army Bill. M. Tisya has bee summoned.

FLOOD CALAMITY IN AMERICA

FIVE HUNDRED PERSONS

DROWNED

LONDON, June 17. Five hundred people were drowned at, Heppncr. The damage is estimated at a million dollars.

AUSTRALIAN NAVY. Adelaide, June 17. The second annual Conference of the Commonwealth Chambers of Commerce had before it a resolution favoring Die establishment of an Australian navy. It, was rejected by a large majority. Most of the speakers favored the Federal Government’s proposal to increase the subsidy.