LATE CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1456, 17 May 1905, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

By Telegraph—Press Assooiation —Copyright

Reoeivod 10.41 p.m., May 16. London, May 16. Tho Northampton bootmakers’ delegates, after demonstrating at Trafalgar Square, returned home.

France eonda a deputation to Berlin on the occasion of tho Crowu PriDce’s marriage. The announcement oreatod a sensation in Berlin, creating a new situation Ottawa, May 16. The Dominion Government is spending throe million dollars in fortifioationß at Beaumont and other positions on the south shore, in order to render JQuebec impregnable.

Received 11,56 p.m., May 16,

London, May 16. Herr Tattenbaoh was received with the customary pomp at Fez. % In the Privy Counoil the appeal Bastings v. Callaghan was allowed, with costs. In the Houbo of Commons the Government secured a majority of 98 ia upholding the Board of Education in applying local authority in default of the Act to Merioneth, Sir William Anson, Parliamentary Under-Secretary to tho Board of Education, showing that the. local authority by pretexts endeavored to starve out and distress voluntary schools. Margaret of Connaught’s marriage will be celebrated at Windsor on Jane 16th.

Beceived I a.m., May 17. Sydney, May 16. Before the Tariff Commission Dr Fiaschi declared that alcohol was an excellent stimulant if not abased, both in health and disease. This would never be a wine drinking country until the people were accustomed to drinking wine at mßals as they now did tea. The custom would be beneficial and assist digestion.