LATE CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1566, 23 September 1905, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

By telegraph, Press A'ss’n, Copyright Roooivod 10.10 p.m., Sopt. 22. London, Sopt 22. General Booth is willing to submit omtgraut candidates for tho approval of tbo Agonts-Gencral. Tho amalgamated society of railway servants, by a largo majority, voted for tho compulsory annual lovy of a shilling a head for tho support of Parliamentary candidates and the payment of members eloctod. Obituary: Colonel Frank Rhodes of Capetown. Ho died of blackwater fever I contracted in Uganda. Received 10.40 p.m., Sept. 22.

Ottawa, Sopt. 22. Canada complains of the Japaneso soizing a schooner laden with salt, bound for Saghalion. Received 12.1 a.m., Sept. 23, Sydney, Sept. 22. Mr Lvons, owner of the steeplechaser Up to Date, has decided to keep his horso in Australia.

Tokio, Sept. 22. Admirals Jossen and Shimnra met at Oorniloff Bay and agreed to a zono whenoe warships and contraband were excluded, Tho narrowest portion of the Tartary Straits will be neutral. Admiral Shimura gave a pass to a steamer with provisions for Kamekbata. Tho Mikaßa’s Are is attributed here to an explosion. Otherwise, tho veteran crew, accustomed to formidable emergencies, I would have extinguished it.

Antwerp, Sept. 22. Tho collapse of the quay has stopped. Received 12.13 a.m., Sept. 23. Sydney, Sept 22. Arrived, the Marjorie, from Kaipara j the Mokoia, at 6 p.m. The Court ordered Miohaol Kinnano to cancel tho sale of five cottages for £IO,OOO to Mrs Scanlon through T. M. Slattery, her agent, on the grounds that defendant agreed to pay Slattery £2OO commission on the completion of the sale, and that £IO,OOO is far in excess of the value. St. Petersburg, Sept. 22. The inquiry whether President Roosevelt was willing to waive his claim was made by Baron Von Rosen, Russian Minister, and not by the Czar direct.

Reoeived 1.15 a.m.. Sept. 23. Sydney, Bept. 22. Earley, ex-President of the Labor League, has been elected employees' representative at the Arbitration Court in place of Mr Sam Smith, who is ill. The Government has completed arrangements for the manufacture of iron and steel in tho State, and have entored into a contract with the' Sabdford and Lithgow iron worlfs for a seven years’ supply. Ninety per cent, are Commonwealth orders. . The price iB about 6 per cent above the cost of the past five years. I It is understood that steel rails and all large seotions of rolled iron and steel above tho capacity of the existing works will at present be excluded. The contraot for delivery starts in January, 1907. The contract haß still to reoeive Parliamentary consideration.