LATE CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1483, 17 June 1905, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright Roceivod 9.68 p.m., Juno 16. London, June 16. Twenty members of the St. Hilda’s crew, who were sentenced to three weeks’ imprisonment at Hongkong on the 3rd June for refusing to sail for fear of capture, have been released. Received 9.40 p.m., Juno 16. A cook aboard a vessel from Buenos Ayers, which arrived at Middlesborough via Hamburg, died of plague at Manchester. Tho vessel has been disinfected at Hamburg owing to the discovery of dead rats. Another German suggestion in the event of tho expected failure of the Morocco conference is that Germany and France arrive at a separate agreement as an addition to the British, French and Spanish conventions. The British Admiralty has relinquished he system of fixed or ground mines. Received 10.52 p.m., June 16. Sydney, June 16. A fall of stone at Broken Hill South Mine killed two miners, Noble and Edwards. In the, Waterloo Cup deciding course Lamb’s Lanoline beat Haynes’ Fondling, and won. ' Arrived, at 12,10 p.m., tho Mararoa. Newcastle, June 16. Sailed, the Whangape, for Lyttelton. Melbourne, June 16. Arrived, tho Tomoana, from London. Brisbane, June 16. Arrived, Manuka, from Vancouver. Received 12.55 a.m., June 17. Sydney, June 16. The metropolitan football team to meet the New Zealanders to morrow are Byers, Hughes, Christie, Bridge, Timms, Moore, Wallisford, Williams, Carey, Carroll. Melbourne, June 16. Haydn has been scratched for the Grand National Steeplechase.