LATE CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1447, 6 May 1905, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

By Telegraph—PresßlAssoolatlon— Copyright Received 9.17 p.m., May 5. • London, May 5. Admiral Cyprian Bridge states that the 12-inch wire guns are not discredited. Only it ought 1 to be recognised that the life of a modern gun is shorter than believed. It is reported at St. Petersburg that the Government propose to sell to France and the Belgian Company three of the moat prosperous State railways for eighty million sterling.

Reuter’s Warsaw correspondent states that a boy ten years of age jeered at a patrol soldier, who cleft the boy from shoulder to waist with a'sabre.

Received 10.12 p.m., May 5. • Sydney, May 5. The general naval manoeuvres of the Australian squadron for 1905 have been postponed for the present. The Cadmus has received orders to proceed to Hongkong.

As the outcome of controversy the Chief Justice announced that the Full Court would sit sp-s long as deemed expedient in any capital. This will probably effect a saving, the Court sitting for a longer period in one city, instead of moving about regularly whether business deemed it or not. The new arrangement will be for the head-quarterß of the Court to be to a great extßnt at Sydney. At the annual meeting of the A.M.P. Society a highly satisfactory report was presented. The accumulated funds had increased to 20£ million, while the bonus distributed was the largest yet, and much larger than that of any mutual life office m the British Empire. Mr Richardson reported satisfactory business in New Zealand. The report was adopted.