LATE CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1377, 11 February 1905, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

By Telegraph—Proas Association—Oopyrigbj Received 10 p.m., Fob 10. Sydnoy, Fob. 10. Arrived, at 8 p.m., tho Mokoin. London, Feb 10.

Tho Seotcb Minors Federation voted £2OO weokly to assist eighty thousand strikers in Belgium. Tho news that tho Commonwoalth has re opened negotiations with tho Orient Company is hoartily weloctno in tho city. Received 12.01 p.m., Feb 10. Sydney, Fob. 10.

Tho statement that negotiations havo been resumed with the Orient Company has not transpired hero. The s oublo announcement may bo based on tho fact that Kenneth Anderson, deputy chairman of tho Orient Company, has arrived at Melbourne; whore ho had a conversation with tho Postmaster General. Hobart, Fob 10. Sir Georgo Turner ha 3 entirely receded from original scheme of hypothecating tho gross railway rovenuo if,the Commonwealth took over tho States’ debts. Ho now asks tho States to pass a measure making interest on tho dobts a first charge on their consolidated revenues in order to make up tho diil'oronco botweon the throo quarters of customs and the amount required for interest payments. Sir George Turner is also willing to ask Parliament to mßko the,Braddou clause perpetual, or extend it' fifty years with a sinking fund of ono per cent to extinguish the debt.

);‘Y : Paris, Feb 10. The French Government has introduced a Church Disestablishment Bill, St. Petersburg, Feb 10. There is continued chaos and uncertainty in Poland. Some employers qt Lodz are giving strike pay, but others refuse. There have been further collisions at Warsaw and Radom. Men employed on tho War-saw-Vienna railway havo struck for eight hours.