LATE CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1615, 30 November 1905, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

By telegraph, Press ABs’n, Copyrigl

Received 9.45 a.m., Nov. 29.

London, Nov 29. The Queen'a Unemployed Fond has roaohod £IOO,OOO. Roceiyod 10.44 p m., Nov. 29.

Tho King has appointed a commission to enquire into tho working of the poor law. Lord George Hamilton is ohoirman, Other members are Charles Booth, Professor 0. S. Looh, secretary to tho Council of tho London Charity Organisation Sooioty, Miss Ootavia Hill, Mrs Sydney Webb, and several looal government officials.

Berlin, Nov 29,

The Kaiser, in opening the Reichstag, deoUrod that Germany’s relations with all Powers were corrootj and with the most were good and friendly. Ho welopmed the highly gifted Japanese people to the ranks of tho Great Powers, and expressed the liveliest sympathy for the Czar’s effortß to effeot a new arrangement of domestic affairs.

The German press imply that Greal Britain is the Power the Kaiser meant when alluding to the correct relations. London, Nov. 29.

The Times says tbers is no need for alarm. Tho Kaiser’s objoot is to find monoy for the new naval programme. Received 11.88 p.m., Nov. 29.

Sir Arthur Niobolson, formerly Ambassador at Madrid, has been appointed Ambassador at St. Petersburg. Lord Tweed Monk, at Froserburg, referring to Home Rule, said that instead of frontal attack, Liberals must adopt gontler, perhaps slower, methods to introduce a Home Rule Bill next Parliament. If they were ;of tho character of 1886 and 1893 Bills the effeot would ooly be to oourt defeat.

Vienna, Nov. 29.

Twenty thousand workers, male and female, marched quietly the Reiohsratb. Tho Emperor witnessed the procession, and remarked : “ I wish all suooess to the Franchise Bill. The movemoat has been irresiatible.”

Reoeived 12.25 a.m., Nov. 30. , Sydney. Nov. 29. Sailed at' 1.25, the Vicoria. Barns, Philip and Co. are advised of the arrival in the Marshall Islands of the steamer despatched to re-open trade with German possessions [in the Pacific. The new regulations are working smoothly, and the treaty is being observed. Melbourne, Nov. 29. The House of Representatives is making good progress with the Trades Marks Bill. Clauses dealiog with the trade union mark have been deleted. The Attorney-General submits new clauses in place thereof. Sailed, the Warrimoo. The Senate out down by £IOOO the vote for maintaining the Government House in Sydney as a residence for the GovernorGeneral. Several New South Wales Senators were absent when the vote was taken. Reoeived 1.5 a.m., Nov. 30. Sydney, November 29. There was a reflection of the London sale prices at opening, which was slightly weaker. Afterwards there was aocive competition, the sale closing strong at the previous day’s rates.