LATE CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1598, 10 November 1905, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

By; telegraph. Press Ass’n, Copyright

Reoeived 12.3 a.m., Nov. 10.

,r; , Capetown, Nov, 9, !s A scheme is mooted to utilise Victoria Falls for transmission of power to Witwaterßrand. Expert opinion is favorable. The estimated minimum supply is half a million horso powor in the driest season. Actually tho Rand oonsumea 150,000 power, costing £3,000.000 per annum. Cutting a canal at a point below tbo falls would inorease the supply to a million horse-power.

New York, Nov. 9. MoLellan’s majority was 8485. Hearst demands a rooount. He alleges that wholesale and outrageous illegalities were practised.

Tokio, Nov. 8. Owing to the failure of the silk, ootton, and rioe crops, there is a great famine in Fukuahima, Miyagi, and Iwate. Over a million are on the verge of starvation.

London. Nov. 8, The London press hope the British will extend practical sympathy to the faminestriokon people of Japan- »

Reoeived 10.28 p.m., Nov 9. Sydney, Nov. 9, The divorce suit Dailey v. Dailey is creating a stir in sooiety. The petitioner is a son of the late Hon. W. B. Dailey, and the go respondent is the petitioner’s younger brother. Adultery is alleged in various parts of Europe and New South Wales. The Judge ordered suppression of the publication of evidence. Two plague infected rats were recently caught in Darling Harbor.

Received 10.6 a.m., Nov. 9. Sydney, Nov. 9,

Thera were high temperatures in Victoria and New South Wales yesterday; at Mildura it was 113, Melbourne 93, Bourke 111, and Sydney 90. The Beaunoir has arrived from Suva, in tow of the tug Champion. Melbourne, Nov. 9. .

Some of the supposed victims of the Salterwatsr river accident have reported themselves. It is believed now that only two were drowned. The D.S S. Co.’s new steamer Maheno, which has arrived from Glasgow, made the voyage in 41 days. She experienced heavy weather, at the start, and it was satisfactorily proved that the vessel iB a oapablo sea; boat.