LATE CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1740, 4 May 1906, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

Rg telegraph, Presa 'Asa’n, Copyaisht Received 11.6 p.m., May 3. London, May 3. King Edwaid opens the Chapel of Si. Miohael and St. George at Saint Paul’s on June 12.

Melbourne, May 3.

Hides, good, are unchanged in price ; other sorts bavo declined an eighth of . a peony. . The Federal Parliament opens in June. Hobatt, May 8. Arrived, tho Tongatiro, from London.

Received 12. G a.m., May 4.

Loudon, May 3,

The British Fire Insurunco Companies will not recognise liability for carnage done to buildings in San Francisoo by earthquakes or buildiaga destroyed by the authorities. Sir H. Campbell-Bannerman resumed the discussion. One itßin in the Budget of postal reform ia to reduoe common colonial money orders not exceeding one pound fiom fourpenoe to threepence from July Ist.

St. Petereburg, May 3. Count de Witte’s resignation is officially confirmed. J. L. GoremykyD, a member of the Uouncil of Empire, will probably be his successor.

Sydney, May 3. The whole of tho meat trade delegates have withdrawn from the Chamber of Commerce Conference. The representative of the New South Wales Freezing Company explained that it had undertaken without serious interference, to damage the meat export trade. Mr Deekin is desirous of having the general election in Octobor. Mr Reid concurs, and urged that a redistribution measure be tbe first wotk of the EB3sion.