LATE CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 994, 14 September 1903, Page 3

LATE CABLES.

MAKING PREPARATIONS. .GERMAN TRAINING SHIP ON WAY, TO BEIRUT. By, Telegraph—Press Association—- . Copyright., . Received 8.45 p.m., Sept. 12. • , BERLIN, Sept. 12. The German training ship Moltke, with dOu meD aboard, has left Lisbon for Beirut. , FACTORY DESTROYED BY FIRE. A LUCKY ACCIDENT. PARIS, Sept. 12. A factory at Marseilles, where the plague originated has been accidentally totally burned down.

THE YANKEE GRAB. PROMPT, PROTEST BY GREAT BRITAIN. WASHINGTON, Sept, 12. Great Britain has protested to tho United States Government against the recent seizure of islands near ißo'rnoo, by American warships. Mr Hay has ordered an investigation into the matter.

A REFORMER-LOSES HIS HEAD. CHINA’S METHODS! PEKIN, Sept. 12. The Chinese reformer Shenkwei, ,who was correspondent of several Japanese papers, has : been beheaded at Pekin. ■ IRISH UNIVERSITY QUESTION. PROPOSED CONFERENCE. LONDON, SejpL 12. Sir Robert Taylor, the author of the recent Land Conference in Ireland, is convening a conference in ' i Dublin of Catholic and Protestant ! educationists, to arrange a ; settlement’ of the Irish .University question.

BANNERMAN’S MEMORANDUM, yIIE TRIES TO EXPLAIN. ' LONDON, Sept. 12. The newspapers have published Sir H. C. Bannerman’s memorandum, laid before Lord Huntingdon, Commissioner, showing his objection to the establishment of a chief of general staff, on the German pattern He objects to> tlie accusation that hq then advocated a policy of muddling and that through his objection arose a fear that the appointment of a chief of staff would impart a military tone to our general policy.

AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Received 1,2 a.m., Sept. It. SYDNEY, Sept. 13. The police raided a “two upI’’ 1 ’’ school in Engine street, and made 84 arrests. , , The steamer Croki struck the Seal Rocks, aiaid was beached on a sandy bottom: There is six feet of water in the held. The passengers and crew are safe. The secamer Boveric, from Melbourne to Newcastle, in ballast, has been towed to Jervis Bay, her propeller having carried away. BRISBANE, Sept. 13. In the football match, New. South Wales defeated Queensland by 12 to 5. Sailed, late last night, the Monoiwai.