LATE CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1662, 31 January 1906, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

By telegraph,, Presa 'Asa’n, Copyright Received 9.45 p ui, Jan. 30. Sydney, Jan. 80. Violoria in their seoond innings soorod 297. McAlister eoorod 128 by careful oricket. only giving ono okaDce. Laver male 24 New South Woles won by 145. lotho Sydney Thousond Handioap, J. Arnst has bean placed oa the 55 yards ma*k, and R. Arnst on the 75 yaidj. Melbourne, JaD. 30. Tbo stock rxohange has donated £IOO to tho bush fires relief fund. A mooting in tho Town Hall was largely attended and liberal subscriptions promised.

O town, Jan. 30. Canada’s exports to Britain for the halfyear onded Dooember amounted to 83,999,000 dollars, and the imports 38,609,000 do’lars.

CapttDwn, JaD. 30.

At the instance of Colonol Sir A. Woolssampson 60 offioors of the irregular forces at Johannesburg arc cal iog a meeting of irregulars who participated in tho war for the purposo of protesting against any tampering with the vital priooiples of tho conBtitut’on,

London, JaD, 30,

The Time j’ Johannesburg correspondent says that by jerrymandering with tho constitution tho Governor would please the Boer leaders, and decide dearly in favor of a Krugerian rogime. On the other hand, accepting the constitution as he finds it, would at Ica4 allow the colony without prejudice to work out its own salvation. Received 12.9 a m., Jan, 31.

London, Jan. 30. Lord Rob arts, addressing tho Liverpool Chamber of Commerce, said, 11 We should aim at a total of one million including auxiliaries. One half of the total is needed for tho defence of India and the other to fit us for maintaining a European struggle. The militia should be earmarked as the first reserve of a foreign service army of two hundred thousand regulars. Our Yeomanry volunteers I should be expanded and every ablebodied man ought to undergo a few months’ training in camp.

Vienna, Jan. 30,

Austria has closed her frontier against Servian cattle owiDg to Servia and Bulgaria forming a Customs Union. Bulgaria and Servia, replying to Austria’s and Turkey’s protests, decline to abandon the Union. It is estimated that Servia will lose £750,000 sterling in the first year’s Customs.

Calcutta, Jan. 30. An agitation has been re-started in India for a reduction or abolition of the tea duty in Great Britain. Cairo, JaD. 30. In the presence of many Sheiks Lord Cromer opened part of the SoudanBerber railway.

Berlin, Jan. 30. Herr Tsohirsebky, Prussian Minister a! Hamburg, hes succeeded Herr Richthofen Minister of Foreign Affairs at Copenhagen,

Morocco, Jan. 30, The Moorish proposals for taxation at the Algeciras ConfereDoo are chiefly aimed at foreigners. St. Petersburg, JaD. 30. A bomb thrown at Tiflis killed General Griazucff, the Viceroy’s chief of staff. The assassin was arrested. China sett a steamer and removed 600 Chinamen from Vladivostok. Others wish to leave, The troubles continue.