LATE CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1834, 15 August 1906, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

PRESS ASSOCIATION—COYPRIGHT R'eiivod 9.44 p.m., August 14. London, August 14. _ Admiral Fanshawe has succeeded Ad« miral Sir Robert Harris as President of the Royal Naval College at Greenwich. Two hundred unemployed at Finchley iQ a starviog condition were selected to commenco tho work of construction of a reservoir at Hampstoed. They were offered 6£J an hour, and demanded 7d. Tnis was not conceded, and they thereupon walked away.

Calcutta, August 14. A meeting between tba Ameer of Afghanistan and Lord Minto is arranged ta tako place at Agra. Belgrade, August 14. Fighting took place between Greeks end Bulgarians at Nicholas, Bulgaria. Thirty wore killed, and part cf tbe town was burned. Tbo Bulgarian Metropolitan perished in the flames. Received 12 54 a m , August 15. London, August 14 Orders have been issued at Devonport for the immediato mobilisation of ibe fleet reserve. This is interpreted as a test of preparedness or a fresh series of manoeuvres.

Obiluary, suddenly, Mrs Craigie, otherwise John Oliver Hobbes. The Siuth African Colonies’ Concerted Products Exhibition opened io London in February will be transferred in March to provincial oentres. It is intended to transform various South African commercial agencies in Loudon into one cential agency. Adelaide, August 14. Natella has been charged with murder, and remanded for a week. Tbe upper portion of the body of the murdered woman was not in the sack. It is still missing.