LATE CABLES

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1619, 5 December 1905, Page 2

LATE CABLES

By, telegraph, Press Ass’n, Cooyrigl Received 10.2 p.m , Deo. 5.

London, Deoombor 5. King Edward, visiting tho oatlls show at Islington, and hearing that eight of tho Now Zealand football team woro presont, asked to sco them. Ho shook hands with Tyler, and oongratalatod him on tho buccoss of tho team, and expressed a hope that they woro onjayiog their visit. Sir T. H. Sanderson, Permanent Undersecretary of the Foreign Ollioe, has been raised to the peerage. Mr John Atkiuson, Attorney-General for Ireland, has sucooodod Lord Lindloy at Lord, of Appeal, Lord L'ndley haviDg resigned. Mr J. H. Campbell, SolicitorGenoral for Iroiand, succeeds Mr Atkinson. Sir Alfred Walls, who bat just resigned tho Justiceship of the King’d Bench Division, has boon created a P.ivy Councillor. Sir Georgo Sydonham Olnrko, formerly Governor of Victoria, has been decorated with the Grand Cross of St. Michael and St. George.

Received 11.22 p m , Dec. 5, St. Petersburg, Dec. 5, House porters at Mosoow have struck, objecting to being considered police eorvants.

Offioial investigation shows that massa*ores occurred in 180 localities. Father Gapon, in tbo course of an interview, deolared tbab extremists make a grave tactical mistake in expecting demooratio institutions, immediately the workers’ nerves were stretched to a breaking point by tho feverish propaganda of extreme parties. Unlers the revolutionists were more cautious, and unless the workers' leaders refrained from rushing into action and then withdrawing when tens of thousands were cast into tho streets cold and hungry, their revolutionary spirit will weaken, and the masses, losing selfrespect, will join the Black Hundred and the dregs of society. The outbreak at Kieff is due to the commander’s brutality to officers and some soldiers.

Received 11 29 p.m., Dec. 5. London, Dec 5. Tho New Zealand Loan and Meroant le Agency Co.’s profit is £121,952. After paying interest on prior lien, second, and third debentures, the fca’anoe is £5151, whereof £3548 meets the cost of the Act dealing with trustees’ceit’fioatrs; £1603 is carried forward. Received 1.10 a.m., Dec. 6.

A Court circular announces that Mr Balfour’s resignation has been accepted. King Edward’s audience with Ba'four lasted 20 minutes. Lords Lansdowne and Cawdor afterwards had an audience with KiDg Edward. His Majesty summoned Sir H. Campbell Bannerman to attend this morning. The Timas hopes that Sir H. Campbell Bannerman, by a sincere oompronjise, will rally all that is best in the party, without whose co-operation the stability of the Cabinet mu'tbs exceedingly doubtfu 1 , Hissuccess at the polls depends his ability to appeal t > !h-> great body of comparatively new opinio l. It is expected that Grey will be Foreign Secretary, and Mr Asquith Chancellor of Exchequer, and Mr Burns in the Cabinet as Representative of Labor. It is understood that Sir H. Campbell Bannerman for the time being will be First Lord of tho Treasury. Received 12.17 a.m., Dec. 6. Sydney, Dee 5. Cohen and Eon were found guilty of conspiring to defraud their creditors. The daughter was acquitted, and the father was sentenced to four yeara, and the son to nine months. Tho Arbitration Court rejected the claim of the Coal Lumpers’ Union for increased pay. The Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the railway coal contracts also report on the relations existing between the Chief Commissioner and fellow Commissioners, and the effect of the administration of the depat tmeot. Recoiued 1.16 a.m., Deo. 6. Sailed, the Whakalaue for Auckland. Newcastle, Dae. 5. Arrived, the Rakanoa from Auckland, London, December 5. Advanced Liberals suggest that Sir E. Grey should be Mr Lyttelton’s successor to the War Office instead of Foreign. Other names mentioned are: For the Colonial Office, Sydney Buxton or Bryce, aud Gladstone as Postmaster General.