LATE CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 941, 14 July 1903, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Received 10.5 p.m., July 18. New York, July 13. There have been eighteen additional deaths in New York. Tho heat wave is now broken. A negro was stabbed, hacked, and slowly tortured to death in the village of' Devon, West Virginia, for assaulting a little girl. Pierpont Morgan’s entire collection, valued at six million dollars, has been offered to a projected art gallery in New York, with money to build a wing to contain it. Other collections are promised, also a million dollars for maintenance. Capetown, July 13. The Kaffir dockers hero have accepted sixpence reduction to threo shillings per day. .London, July 13. The Admiralty directs that a relief expedition by the Terranora will sail from Lyttelton early in December, the Morning co-operating with her. j Received 12,50 a.rn., July 14. Pekin, July 13. The conference at Port Arthur includes the Governor of Vladivostock, Russian agents at Korea, railway and steamship officials, and a group of St. Petersburg financiers. The chief question discussed is the consolidation of Far Eastern possessions under control of a GovernorGeneral. A Russian Mining Lumber Company, which is practically a Government institution, controls the timber concessions of the Yalu, and is introducing tramways 1 and electric light at Niuchwang, Mukden, 1 and Karbin. 1 There are 80,000 troops at Port Arthur, and 16,000 more are expected. Received 1 a.m., July 14. Washington, July 13. President Roosevelt replied to King Edward : “I thank you most cordially for your kind message, and sincerely and gratefully appreciate the courtesies the ! officers of the fleet received at the hands ! of Your Majesty and the English people.” Received 1.10 a m., July 14. London, July 13. Mr Copeland, in a letter to tho Standard, instances the experience of the corn tax just suppressed with the experience of Victoria and New South Walos under different economic policies, with a view to showing that preferential duties unappreciably raise the cost of food. The tariff should be capable of being lowered or suspended according to necessity. One principle affirmed by a Tariff Act should provide for an import duty on foreign wheat, of say two shillings, with a rebate to colonial wheat of a shilling, thus slightly advautaging the United Kingdom farmer compared with the colonial, then make progressive increases in the foliowiug years to four stuffings, with a rebate of half a crown in favor of colonial, with a duty on flour slightly above that on wheat, j London, July 13.

The Union Bank balance-sheet Bhows deposits to bo 1115,949,226 ; casb investments, 45,904,762 ; bills and securities, 414,371,228.

Received 1.18 a.m.. July 14. St. Petersburg, July 13. Tbe Czar ordered a fresh and more stringent enquiry into the outragos at Kishineff. London, July 13. Obituary : William Ernest Henley, litterateur.

The Daily Mail’s Washington correspondent' states that the loss resulting in tho building trade by the strike is estimated at thirteen million sterling. A Constantinople telegram published in Paris states that an engagement of Turkish and Bulgarian troops is reported on the frontier, which the Turks accuse the Bulgarians of crossing. The Bulgarians allego that the Turks intended to occupy the neutral zone. A Council of Ministers, hurriedly convoked, considered the situation, and fresh troops have been summoned.

The Times’ Constantinople corresponpondent asserts that the Porte has issued fresh instructions for pacificatory measures in Macedonia, ordering them to spare Bulgarian families harsh treatment, and appointing a roving commission to superintend measures.

Capetown, July 13.

General Botha, in the course of an interview, said that foreign unskilled labor wrs unnecessary. Development work alone was proceeding at tbp mines, with no output. If desired Africa was able to supply suffi cient labour both for development and output. Mining magnates were manipulating the labor market in order to secure the importation of Asiatics.