LATE CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 1006, 26 September 1903, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Received, 10,45 p.m., Sept, 25 London, Sept. 25. The Australian mare Niphetos has been backed for £2OOO at 20 to 1 for the Cambridgeshire Stakes. Received 10.53 p.m.. Sept. 25 Hobart, Sept. 25. Dr Butler gave notice of motion in the Council to reconsider tho Income Tax Bill with the view of making it operative from the Ist January next. The Government aro prepared to accept this settlement of the differences between the two Houses, but if tho Council rejects it on Tuesday' they will on Wednesday ask for a dissolution.

Received 12.1 n.m,, Sept. 26. London, Sept. 25. The tenants have purchased the Duke of Leinster’s Kildare estate, 44,000 acres, for jG1,u51,053. Twenty-five years is allowed for payment of purchase money. Mr Birmingham assured the Birmingham licensed victuallers that ho concurred in the necessity of tho earliest legislation to prevent licensing magistrates appro priating publican property without com pensation

Constantinople, Sept. 25. The Sultan has issued an irade accept.ng Bulgaria’s proposals for the pacification of .Macedonia. Ho has instructed Helmi Pasha to execute tho reforms through Maecdoniau vilayets and Adrianoplo without delay, and dosist from further punitive measures. A mixed commission representative of tho different nationalities will be appointed. Restoration of tho villages and repatriation of refugees has been orderod. Sofia, Sept. 25.

M. Petroff, tho Bulgarian Premier, is sceptical of tho Sultan’s sincerity, since there is no assuranco that Turkey will discontinue military preparations. London, Sept. 25.

Tho Financial Times says that tho break up of ihe drought and adoption of a policy of retrenchment, with economical administration, justify a hopeful view of an Australian revival. Tho Chronicle warns Mr Chamberlain not to expect Mr Deakin to make concessions to English exporters detrimental to Australian manufacturers, oven if tho English consumer is taxed for tho benofit of colonial produco. The Morning Post lauds Sir E. Barton’s patriotic statesmanship, and states that Mr Deakin is a worthy successor. Tho Government comprises tho ablest administrators and debaters in tho Commonwealth.

Received, 1.5 a.m., Sept. 25 Thursday Island, Sept. 25. Arrived: Tho dredge Whakariro, on routo to New Zealand.