LATE CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 939, 11 July 1903, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Received 10.30 p.m., July 10 London, July 10. Tho Privy Council case, Mitchell vorsus New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Compauy, a petition for leave to appeal, was dismissed. The Standing Committee of Trade has accepted tho Government Adulterated Butter Bill, reducing the amount of water allowed in pure butter from 20 to 16 per cent.

The widow oi Edward John Eyre, exGovernor of America, at one time Lieut.Governor of New Zealand, has been granted a Civil List Pension of 11100 per annum. Dir A. Dangax, ot Sydney, purchased the Royal Agricultural Society’s Show champion Suffolk stallion. Lord Roberts ha? expressed a desire that his appeal for the restoration of captured Boer Bibles containing lamily records should bo brought uuder tho notice of Colonial troops who sewed in the war. Received 10.45 a.m., July 10 Paris, July 10. President Loubet, replying to a congratulatory address at Calais, said that his visit to England produced a profound im prexsion upon him. It showed that more justice was shown to France abroad thau she did herself.

Received 10.58 p.m., July 10. Jb’urxs, July 10. M.Deloyte, lecturing sit Bordeuux, said that foreign producers were displacing French wines on the English market in an alarming faskioD. He urged Bordeaux merchants to agitato for a commercial agreement with Great Britain, who was disposed to come to an understanding with France over commercial subjects. Capetown, July 10. In the Assembly Mr Jameson moved that Government should establish cold storage depots in order to lesseu the cost of living. The debate was adjourned. The shipping trade at Capetown is practioally at a standstill, owing to a strike of colored dockers. Steamers are leaving without discharging. Received 1.4 a.m., July 11. LONDON, July 10. The King telegraphed to President Loubet : ‘‘ Deeply touched by your message. My most ardent desire is that the rapproachment may. be lasting.” Received 1.15 a.m., July 11. SYDNEY,, July 10. The Employers’ Unions of Sydney and Melbourne are each forming a iund of £20,000 for the purpose of lighting the Federal Government at next election. Good rains are falling in South Eastern Queensland, Northern New South Wales, and the coast. Received 1.21 a.m., July 11. BRISBANE, July 10. The Premier, in a letter to . Sir E. Barton, protesting against the Federal Government extending the Vancouver mail coutract'without tonsuiting ehe State Governments, stated that had the opinion of his .Government been taken it would, in view of the "present state of finance, have required very serious consideration before its approval were givem especially as to the increase of cost which it is understood has been agreed upon.

SYDNEY, July 9

At the annual meeting o£ the Pastoralists’ Union, the President conigratulated members on the i'aut of their having passed the turning point ol the drought losses. The efforts of the Government to fix minimum wages would interfere with industrial conditions, and was almost the only cause of the unemployed difficulty. After twelve months' experience of the Arbitration Act, the outlook was unpromising. The first effect of the law had been to multiply and intensify disputes to an enormous extent. The sooner the Act disappeared from the Statute Book, ■the better it would be for the State. In regard to the coming shearing, the industrial agreement would not apply, owing to the small number of sheep to be shorn. There was certain to be a large surplus of labor.