LATE GABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1595, 27 October 1905, Page 2

LATE GABLES.

By telegraph, Press Aes’n, Copyright Rcooivod 10.83 p.ra., Oct. 26. Melbourne, Oct. 26. I Hidoß are firm. Now Zealand good con- I ditiouod were in special request. Tallow I is unchanged. I At a speoial general meeting of the Colonial Mutual Life Society tho report 1 | dculing with the sixth quinquennial in-ve.-tigatinn waa adopted. Thcinv'stiga tion discloses a surplus of £261,541, of which £211,540 is left for appropriation and divis’o.i. A policy of strengthening the financial pos t’oa of the Socioty has I beon steadily pursued. I Received 12.28 a.m., Oci. 27. I Melbourne, Oct. 26. I In the Federal 1 House Mr Thomas I moved that the Commonwealth Govern--1 ment should approach tho Imperial and Canadian Governments with the view to I steps being taken to acquire a Canadian I laod line and one of tho Atlantic cables in I order to comple the State-owned line from I Australia to England, The debate was 1 adjourned.

Roaeived 1 a m Oot. 27. London. Oct 26. I The Duke of Devonshire, replying to a 1 Hampstead elector, said that while he I would bo unable to voto for any tariff I reformer his support of a Freetrader would depend on the latter’s opinions on many other questions. . 1 King Edward is sending a Bpecial I message to Tokio, probably headed by Mr Arthur Connaught, to oonvey the Order of the Garter to the Mikado. The Legation at Tokio will henceforth be an Embassy." The Toulon squadron aud a portion of Lord Beresford’s aro participating in a fe’e at Genoa, where King Emanuel and Queen Helena are inaugurating harbor works. „ , Admiral Birileff’s Black Sea squadron has gone to Anatolia; it is surmised that it has gone to be in readiness for a MaceI donian demonstration. It is affirmed in Vienna that the Powers are unanimous. It is semi-offioially deolared that Germany I has done and is doing her utmost to inI duoe the Sultan of Turkey to aooept the I Powers' financial scheme.