LATE CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1635, 27 December 1905, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

By, telegraph, Press Ass’n, Copyright , Itoroivcd 931 e.ra, Dee. 21 London, Deo. 23. Tbo Viceroy of Nanking has settled tho mixed oouit d ffioulty. Tho British assessor romainß. At tho reeling of the Houldere Shiippiog lino, Mr Gajford, of Giyford and Company, produce merchants, sa tbe rotes far carrying rofrigorated were absolutely unvemuncrativo and the position wos unlikely to improve until the insulated tonnage available and tbo quantity of tno»t .to bo earned more closely approach each other Tolrio, Dee. 21. Tho China Japanese treaty baa been BionoJ. It opens sixteen ports and cities including Harbin, to the w orld a trade and entitles Japan to build an Aatung* Mukden railway. Received 4 49 p.m., Dec. 21 Sydney, Dec. 16. Arrived, the cruiser Cambrian from England; Advance, from Now Zealand. Sailed, tbo tug Bir William Wallace for Now Zealand, and tbo Maheno at 2.20 p.'m. Sydney, Dec. 24. Sailed, tbe Moano for AucklandRccoived 4.49 p.tn., Dec. 24. Sydney, Dec. 23. George My!u», lato master of tbe barque 1 La Bella, was cha-ged with manslaughter of Harold Watsoo, a seaman drowned in | the La Bolla wreck, and was remanded ponding the arrival of a warrant from Melbourne. Received 9.4 a.m., Dec. 25. London, Deo. 24. Aird and Son are progressing with the Constantinople Barrage Canal costing two millions. Captain E. F. Thursby, at present commanding the cruiser Encounter, has been appointed to tho command of tbe cruiser Kiog Alfred. Captain Elliott, of the Bacchant, has been appointed to the Encounter. . An Australian smelting corporation is being formed with a capital of 000 to acquire options on the properties of the Smelting and Refining Company of Australia and the Caledonian Copper Company.

Capetown, Dec. 24. South African prolific crops reduced the < native labor supply on the Rand from 98.600 in April to 86,760 in November. Melbourne, Dec. 24. Arrived, the Honowai. Harvest prospects are very encouraging. Sydney, Deo. 22. The warship Cambrian, en route to Australia, hoisted the British flag on the Ashmore group, consisting of three low islets between Timor and King’s Sound, Received 12.49 a.m., Dec. 36- % Rome, Deo. 25. M. Fortis has formed a new Ministry, himself taking the portfolio of Minister of the Interior, and M. Guilliano, Foreign Affairs.

Tokio, Dec. 25.

The opening of Manchurian towns to foreign trade occurs after the eighteen months allowed for evacuation by Russia and Japan. Received 12 38 p.m-, Dee. 26. Sydney, Deo 25.

Sailed at 2 p m. the Sierra. There was glorious weather for the holiday, which wa3 observed as usual in a semi-religious manner. Kieran, who died after an operation for appendicitis, was brought to Syiiaey to b 3 buried to-morrow.