LATE CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 1058, 27 November 1903, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

By Electric Telegraph—Per Press Association—Copyright. Received 12..14 a.in.,- Nov. 27 E SYDNEY, Nov. 26, A minister of the Christian Church applied to use the Town Hall for a meeting proposed to be held by J. A. Bowie in February.. The Town Clerk stated that recent New York cables were unfavorable to Dowie, and he suggested that the Council insist on a cash deposit of £-100 to cover possible damage to property if Dowies reception were hostile. The minister declared that the New, York cables were a bunch of lies concocted by Dowie’s enemies., Flo prouuced Zion journals in proof of what he said. The Council agreed to the clerk’s suggestion of a deposit, also to reserve the right to cancel the letting of the hall should trouble ensue at the earlier meetings. LONDON, Nov a 26,

The Times Tokio correspondent reports that Russia remains silent regarding Japan’s minimum proposals It is feared that unless a basis of agreement is arranged before the Japanese Diet opens on December 6th, the situation will probably be carried beyond diplomatic control. The Daily Express states that the Princess Alice has not eloped, but appealed to the Pope for a divorce, owing to her husband’s unkindness and extravagance. Received 1.10 a,in.,- Nov* 27 g SYDNEY, Nov. 26.

The wool sales of the week closed very active. Prices for finer qualities of merinces and crossbreds were liirmly. sustained. Inferior" and wasty were out of favor, particularly crossbreds.

The heat wave has been experienced in the greater part of the State. It was 95 in the shade at Sydney, while twenty stations registered 100 and over. At Mount Hope it was up to 107,

Coincident with the caterpillar visitation, myriads of large whitecolored butterflies have appeared in the coastal districts.

Received 12.14 a.m., Nov. 27. MELBOURNE, Nov. 26. The tallow market is weaker, shippers now, operating. Rates have declined 10s per ton. Quotations are —Mutton, 4:23 10s to £24 10s, mix-

ed £2l 10s to £22 Is. Hides : Supplies are light; New Zealand is in good demand at unchanged prices—stout hides are quoted at 6d to 7Ad. heavy s)d to sid, average and medium 4ijd to 4|d, calf 5-gd to 6d. Received 12.30 a.m., Nov. 27.

LONDON, Nov. 23. Lord Rosebery addressed a great Liberal demonstration in the Surrey Theatre. 1-Ie said .that postponement oi a dissolution, witlv such an issue in the'air, was impracticable—impossible. He declined to believe that the country would change the iiscal policy on the personal pledge oi any statesman. Mr Chamberlain would have done well to try to ease the .enormous growth of expenditure. Mr Chamberlain was a Jeremiah ; he discovered a decrease .which did not exist, and proposed a remedy which the nation discarded when brought, to the verge of ruin. They promised higher wages under protection in the teeth of the fact that in every protected country in Europe wages were lower and the hours longer than in Britain. , State Socialism was a logical outcome of Mr Chamberlain’s scheme. Would Americans, the most pugnacious people in the world, take ■retaliation lying down ? The first of the new proposals would be ■.bitter warfare with our cousins, wherein we stood to lose everything and gain nothing. Britain’s greatness and prosperity was due to the fact that the world was her granary, A free Empire must continue to be identified with a free loaf. Do not, lie said, allow the sublime idea of Empire to be mixed with taxation of the children’s bread. Lord Rosebery concluded by outlining what he described as a practical, ■heroic policy, the stimulation of education, temperance, and thrift, cot-ton-growing within the Empire, the removal of real, tangible grievances, namely, the greater facilities given to foreign ships, which are not subject to the same regulations as ours; development of the port of London, and the promotion of a commercial policy, especially in the Far East.

Received 10.36 p.m., Nov. 26 Constantinople, Noy. 26. A favorable impression has been created in diplomatic circles in Constantinople by the Porte’s written reply accepting in principle all the points of the AustroRussian scheme, and the expressed hope in the application of reforms that everything calculated to humiliate Turkey would bo avoided. M. Delcasse’s latest speech where he declared that Turkey would bo committing a groat mistake unless it frankly accepted reforms embodying effective control which was indispensable to prevent a fresh insurrection and assure the peace of Europe, and advice to tbo King of Greece to accept the scheme in its integrity,,impressed the Sultan. Paris, Nov. 26.

The British Parliamentary Party, accompanied by Agents-Genoral, visiting France, wero warmly feted at Calais and Paris.

New York, Nov. 26.

Parts of Petersbury, owing to the floods, aro in darkness. Some theatres closed owing to the failure of gas and electric light.

Received 10.54 p.m., Nov. 26. London, Nov 26. Five hundred cotton cloth weavers at Burnley struck as a protest against the Americanisation of the industry by the firm proposing to reduce wages 3d per loom and transferring certain duties to extra hands, thus enabling woaverss to give undivided attention to their maohines,

London, Nov. 26.

Mr Winston Churchill, speaking at Oldham, endorsed every word in the Duke of Devonshire’s speech, and declared that if the Conservative party become protectionist ho would leave it and steadily oppose it. Mr Churchill intended io address another meeting, but the Conservative Club was closed against bim. He spoke from a cab, and had an enthusiastic reception.

Mr Bryce,' at Salford, said the coming election could not be lopg delayed! The date depended upon when ■‘""d of the Government, who the m.— ‘ —"tati tvfred orders is outside the Govern.- * M( «e to, to the Government to ask the „ dissolve. .The Government would be met by an absolutely united Liberal party.