LATE CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1437, 25 April 1905, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

By holograph—Press Aueociation—Copyflghl Received 4.65 p.m., April 23. London, April 22. Tbs Times soys that tho tyranny Ol Labor legislation is imperilling the pros perity and orodit of Australia.

Sydney, April 23. Sailocl, at 2.10 p.m. yesterday, the Wai karo.

Towns has aocoptod Stanbury’s challenge to row for the championship and £SOO asido, timo and place to bo fixed later.

Tho atoamoc Fultlo, from Madras via Fiji, has arrived with a oase of small-pox aboard. The victim is a coolie. The vessol’s crew have been quarantined, Melbourne, April 23. Arrived, yesterday, tho Monowai. Received 9.10 a.m., April 24. Capetown, April 23.

The newspaper Transvaol Loader statßß that Mr Lyttolton has intimated that the Transvaal will not be permitted to incur any further largo financial obligations until the payment of the first instalment of the war contribution loan has been arranged. Received 9.40 a.m., April 24. Sydney, April 24. There are two more cases of plague. Archbishop Kelly, in the course of a speeoh, condemned socialism, and declared equality for all impossible. Mr O’Sullivan, ex-Minister of Works, is a passenger by the Waikare. He goes to New Zealand to enquire into tho working of State insurance, compulsory arbitration, oloser settlement, and unemployed questions; Tho Commercial Travellers’ Conference decided to style the organisation the United Commercial Travellers’ Association of Australasia, and include New Zealand and Tasmania in the representation. Tho annual report of tho Socialists’ League states that in Australia capital was checked by labor legislation, which did not help labor or anything else.

Thursday Island, April 24. Japanese smugglers recently successfully got away with two pearling luggers. Received 10.8 p.m., April’24.' London, April 24. The Powers have again vetoed Crete's union with Greece. There were alarming earthquake shocks early yesterday in Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Notts, and Lincolnshire. Obituary—Joseph Jefferson, actor, aged 76.

St. Petersburg, April 24.

Fifteen thousand bakers at Moscow have struck. Only municipal oveDs are working, and the price of boead has trebled.

Sydney, April 24. The Lord Mayor yesterday entertained 1088 city poor to an Raster dinner in the Town Hall.

Tho bowling chawpionship of Australasia was won oy Young Ghatewood, beating Gartnell Chatswood by 21 to 17. The Yicsoriaa players failed to get into the final.

LONDON, April 24. •A i billiards, Stephenson* 18,000* beat Dawson,, with 16,036. SYDNEY, April 24,

(The Fultana recently took a shipload of coolies from Madras ho Suva,, but was strictly; quarantined before resuming the voyage ho Sydney, Obituary;; .Charles Messenger, at one time a iamo,us sculler. A shock of .earthquake at Mjallo Pass, New, Hebrides, at the end of March was followed by, a tidal .wavq that lifted the schooner Dola, Which was ashore, into! deep, water.

At the stock sales in connection With the show, three Ayrshire bulls,: •belonging to Mu *l, Graph, of New) Zealand, were sold for, 15, 21„ and 32 guineas’ respectively. The milk-, ing test 'was won by, Wedlock’s cow, a Durham-Ayrshire cross.. Hex three days’ milking yielclfed 139,9 pounds of mi lie, containing, 8.64 pojupds Of -but* ter* MELBOURNE, April 24. .The Political Labor Council Conference adopted resolutions, that the ideal qf the parey is the gradual nationalisation of the means of production, distribution, and exchange, in favor of a graduated, unimproved lan.d tax, with exemption! of £SOO, and the abolition of the Legislative Council, T;

FREMANTLE, April 2-U Sailed, jbhet Murihiki, fo.r Nero Zealand* .