LATE CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 977, 25 August 1903, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Received 11,5 p,m., August 24. Capetown, Aug. 24. A meeting held here, and attended chiefly by Australians, resolved to petition the King through the Governor for tho release of Lieutenant 'Whitton, of the Bush Veldt Carbineers.

Berlin, Aug. 24. Leid, editor of the Socialist paper Vorwaerts, has been arrested for falsely asserting that the Kaiser builds as an Imperial residence a strongly guarded and isolated castle on an island near Spaudau. St. Petersburg, Aug. 24. Japan has erected a Consulate hero. Rome, Aug. 24. Obituary : Menotti Garibaldi. Receivod 12.56 a.m., Aug. 25 London, Aug. 24. In the Birmingham Tariff Committee’s leaflet the speakers declare that Mr Chamberlain’s plan begins with the establishment of Imporial federation, which is the only possible foundation of a fiscal union. Commercial reciprocity arms Great Britain with the means of securing better treatment from manufactures abroad and stimulates colonial farming. Received 1.15 a.m., Aug. 25. Sydney, Aug. 24. Mr Reid has commenced the election campaign. No opposition so far is announced.

Mr Wragge, writing to the press, states that he is tired of Australia, and intends leaving it. Adelaide, Aug. 24.

Dr. Ramsay Smith [jhas applied for a board of enquiry into the charges on which he is suspended.