LATE CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XII, Issue 1075, 17 December 1903, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

By Tclegrach—Press Association—Copyright Received 11.58 p.m., Dec. 16 Sydney, Dec. 16. Arrived at 6.15 p.m., Waikare ; sailed at 2.45 p.m., tho Zcalandia. H.M.S. Scylla, cruiser, with time-ex-pired crews, has sailed for Portsmouth. Severe gross fires are reported in various districts. Thousands of acres are devastated.

Melbourne, Dec. 16. Sailed, the Warrimoo. Received 12.7 a.m., Dec. 17 Bombay, Dec. 16. The Tibet Mission crossed Jclt-p Pass unopposed, the villagers being friendly. Vienna, Dec. 16. The Emperor cf Austria has warned the Servian Minister that no perfect understanding between Austria and Servia is possible until tho regicides are punished, He hinted that tho Powers would adopt graver and more effectual measures than giving their diplomatists leave of absenco if the regicides retain influence.

Capetown, Deo. 16. Lord Miiner has arrived at Capetown, General De la P.ey is visiting Ahmednagar, India, trying to persuade 500 Boer prisoners there to abandon their irreconcilable attitude.

London, Dec. 16. Tho Bishops of Loudon and Rochester appealed to churchmen to fight tho London County Council elections on the education question. Received 11.55 p.m., Dee. IG.

BERLIN, Dec. 16. Twenty-two doctors examined tile growtiis extracted from the Kaiser’s throat. All declared them to he malignant. Received 1.30 a.iy,-, Dec. 17 s BERLIN, Dec. 16.

Count Von Billow has warned .Social Democrats that, anyone opposing the law will he relentlessly crushed. Socialist leaders’ incitements to class strife amounted to terrorism.

Count Posadowsky, Minister of the Interior, denied the circumstances of Germany’s comparable conditions before the French revolution., If a revolution ever broke out many would lose their heads if they opposed the constituted authorities. WASHINGTON, Dec. 16’.

America is pressing- Korea for a definite answer in regard to the opening of Wiju.