LATE CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XII, Issue 1080, 23 December 1903, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright Received 10.25 p.m , Dec. 22. Berlin, Dec. 21. Sergeant Like, of tha German army, has been sentenced to eighteen months’ imprisonment and degraded for seventeen cases of cruelty to soldiers. Received 10.-14 p.m., Dec. 22. Melbourne, Dec. 22. At the annual meeting of the National Mutual Life Association tho report and balance-sheet wero unanimously adopted. The chairman referred to the great increase of new business, increase of funds, and the saving in expenses, tiie high rate of interest earned on invested funds, and tho small amount of outstanding interest. He also referred to the high place occupied by tho association compared with British oiiices.

Suva, Dee. 22. Arrived—The Hauroto. Received 12.47 a.m., Dec. 23 St. Petersburg, Dec. 22. Sentences passed at Kishineff on tho authors of the disturbances causing the massacres at Gretschin and Morasjuk, who were indicted for murder, have received seven and five years respectively. Twenty-two others were sentenced to terms ranging from six months to two years. Ttvelvo wore acquitted. Those found guilty wero ordered to pay costs. London, Dec. 22.

German spinners having sufficient orders until the summer decline Lancashire overtures to restrict production. Lord Twccdmouth, in a lector, states that although the fiscal policy must be tho main issue at the bye-elections, the blots on the Government’s record are so black that they arc impossible to escape notico.

Received 1.11 a.m., Dec. 23 Sydney, Dec. 22. Arrived, at- 3.45 p.m., the Monowai. In the Arbitration Court tho Northern Miners’ Federation applied for an injauction to restrain tho Northern Coliiery Proprietors’ Association from reducing the hewing rato on the Ist January ponding decision by' the Court on dispute with tho Dudley Company ovor the hewing rate. The Court refused the application. The Thornliebank’s leak was found in the butts of tho plates, where several rivets wore started. Further cargo will bo discharged, and tho vessel will be docked for repairs.