LATE CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 1002, 22 September 1903, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Received 10.05 p.m., Sept. 21. London, Sept. 21.

Tho King unveiled a memorial to Queen Victoria in Craithio Church. Dr Gillespie, Moderator, pronounced a panegyric.

Brisbane, Sept. 21.

In response to a telegram from tho Mayor to the Mayors of leading towns of Queensland, it was agreed to send a cable to Mr Chamberlain approving of his action.

The river Mclntyre was in high flood on Saturday and Sunday, but is now subsiding. A portion of Goondiwindu and all the surrounding country was under water and the crops spoiled. One selector lost 1000 sheep.

Received 1.7 a.m., Sept. 22. London, Sept. 21. Austrian newspapers four that Mr Chamberlain’s ultimate victory will rendor England less impotent to repel foreign fiscal aggression. Tho Russian press declares that Mr Chamberlain’s fall rids the world of the old and principal element against Euro pean peace.

Constantinople, Sept. 21,

It is reported hero that Bulgarian engineers assisted sis Russian volunteer officers surveying a coast fortified camp for 180,000 men.

Madrid, Sept. 21. Sonor Selvela retires from the leadership of the Spanish Conservatives, owing to the unpopularity of the Frauco-Spanish alliauee, which would necessitate reconstruction of the navy.

London, Sept. 21. Tho Marquis of Linlithgow has returned in much better health after undergoing Continental treatment.

Received 1.18 a.m.. Sept. 22. Sydney, Sept. 21. At the settling for the Spring meeting Mr Crick stated that ho had backed Ossian for the Melbourne Cup to win £42,000 down to 100 to 5. He had also backed tho combination of Soots Guard and Ossiau for tho two Cups for £OO,OOO at 1000 to 2.

Received 1.14 a.m., Sept. 22. Capetown, Sept. 21. Sir A. J. Lawley, speaking at Klip River, statod that Government had spent a million on foodstuff, half a million on seed loans, a milliou and a half for transport, and one million four hundred thousand for administration, chiefly connected with repatriation. Received 1.18 a.m., Sept. 22. Melbourne, Sept. 21.

The Federal Government decided to appoint Sir Sainuol Griffiths as Chief Justice, and Sir E. Barton and Mr O’Connor as Judges of the High Court.

Hobart, Sept. 21

Mr Nicholas Brown, Speaker of the House, is dangerously ill, and unlikely to recover.