LATE CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1411, 23 March 1905, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Received 9.20 p.m., March 22." Calcutta, March 22. Tho Indian Budget shows a surplus from the last financial year of £2,996,000. The estimated surplus for the current year is • £3.485,000, and the estimated surplus for next year is £904,000.

Paris, March 22. M. Tallandier, French Minister at Tan.gle.r, reports that an explanation of the Frenoh proposals completely reassured the SultaD of Morocco.

Amsterdam, March 22. The-Netherlands Government have decided to employ coeroion towards Venezuela unless five imprisoned Dutchmen are released.

Received 10.30 p.m., March 22. • Sydney, March 22. Sailed, at 2.8 p.m., the Viotoria. " The Warrigo takes up the Pilbarra’s Island trip, and leaves to-morrow. . At the wool sales the market was firm at last month’s rates.

Melbourne, March 22. Sailed, the Monowai.

Brisbane, March 22. Natives report that the remains of a large ship have drifted ashore on Yorke Peninsula, 50 miles south of Batavia river. The beach is strewn with wreckage, including stanchions, deck-house, and large quantities of sagq, and flour. The evidences show that they have not long been in tho water. A Government steamer has gone to investigate. Received 12.2 a m., March 23. London, March 21. The Daily Mail Btates that the police force in India is being reorganised at a cost of a million sterling per annum to enable it to hold the country in emergency and" release the troops for service at the front,

Received 1.3 a.m., March 23. Sydney, March 22. More plague rats have been found in Darling Harbor. The labor unions, upset by the Full Court’s ruling, intend to appeal to the High Court, and also ask an amendment of the Arbitration Act. Melbourne, March 22. The racehorse Wairiki has been shipped by tho Monowai for New Zealand.