LATE CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1876, 4 October 1906, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT Received 11.00 p.m., October 3. London, Ooiober 3

Rev. Edgar S'anword’s appeal at Boma against a fine imposed for libel on Mojor Hoj-rstrom in connection with the Congo atrocities has boen postponed for a year. Cairo, October 3.

Tho Sinai frontier agreement has been eigD;:d at Cairo, including a guarantee in respect of Bedouin and other rights of property.

New York, Oct. 3. Cotton in New York has made a further riso of 35 points. Received 1,12 a.m , October 4,

Sydney, Ooh 3. The Bowling Association has selected thirty two p'ayers for the inter-Stoto matoh against New Zealand. The match will ho played atObatßwood. Sailed at 3,40, tho Viotoria. At the wool sales greaßy touched 12ijd, and scoured 22|-d. Aftor her viotory in the Craven Plate Solution was purchased by Sir Rupert Clarke for four thousand guineas, subject to veterinary inspection.

Hobart, Oetober 3. Sailed, the Pakeha, for New Zealand. Newcastle, October 3. Arrived, Burgomaster Hackmann, from Dunedin.

Perth, October 3,

The Treasurer, referring to the motion carried at the State Premiers’ Conference in favor of the termination of the bookkeeping method of the Commonwealth at the end of five years, and that three* fourths of tho Customs revenue be returned on a per eapita basis, said that by suoh a proposal West Australia would lese three hundred thousand annually, which savored of brigandage. They must not exploit West Australia for the benefit of their own States.