LATE CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1375, 9 February 1905, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright Received 9.26 p.m., Feb. 8. London, Feb. 8. Despite the chief agent of the Conservative oentral office intimating that ho is unable to countenance opposition to Lord Hugh Cecil, a representative meeting of the Greonwioh Conservative Association, by 46 to 32, invited him to retire at the next dissolution and preve-t the loss of a scat owing to tho _ ,stion. Mr Lee’s amended of his statement as to tho navy * regarded in Berlin as a termination of the inciden v Mr Balfour, in reply to a .deputation concerning tho unemployed,-' said the Government were considering the establishment cf peimanent machinery to enable tho woiklesa to tide over—a period of hardship, avoiding the creation of a permanent class depending on the State for mployment.

Received 12.20 a.oi., Feb 9. London, Feb. 8. Mr Lee, in a fresh speech at Eastleigh, said that his former statement of general principles was no menace to anybody. Tho meaning put into it never existed in his mind, A fatal case of plague haß occurred at Liverpool, aboard a steamer from Rangoon, where there is a serious outbreak of tho disease. Brussels, Feb 8. Them are forty four thousand strikers at Belgium. Sydney, Feb. 8. The unveiling of portraits of both the King and Queen in the National Gallery was performed by the Governor. The King’s portrait was presented by Earl Beauchamp, and tho Queen’s by the women of New South Wales. Both were painted by Longstaff, the Australian artist. Sailed, the Zealandia. Melbourne, Feb. 8. Sailed, tho Mocraki.