LATE CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 518, 3 September 1902, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

CALLIOPE DOCK. THE ADMIRALTY DECISION. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, Sept. 2. The Admiralty purchases the land adjoining tho Calliope Dock, Auckland, for the purposes of a coaling station. AWFUL FOLLY. CAPTIVE BALLOON BE LEASED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, Sept. 2. Spectators playing with a captive war balloon at Leatherhead, Surrey, released it. A man clinging to a rope was carried a hundred feet; then 110 dropped and was killed. Three, who were inside the car, pulled the valve rope, and descended safely. MR CHAMBERLAIN. CANNOT VISIT COLONIES AT PRESENT. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, Sept. 2. Mr Chamberlain regrets official duties at present preclude his acceptance of the Premiers’ warm invitation to visit the colonies. CHINA’S CUNNING. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, Sept, 2. Reuter’s Agency states that China has rescinded the abolition of the likin until all the Powers have agreed to increase the import and export duties.

WORKERS’ CONGRESS,

SPEECH BY JOHN BURNS. By Telegraph. Press Association. Copyright London, Sept. 2, A Trades Union Congress being held in Hoi bourne Town Hall represents a million and a half workers. Mr W. C. Steadman, who is the secretary of the Barge Builders’ Unton, is president. The Bishops of London, Rochester, and St. Albans wrote welcoming the Congress. Mr John Burns declared that they had met at a critical time when there was a law inflicting heavy strokes without strict impartiality. Unionists were determined at all costs to resist attempts of an unscrupulous plutocracy to deprive them of the rights of combination. TRAIN DERAILED. 25 NEGROES KILLED, By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright New York, Sept. 2. A negro train was derailed at Alabama, 26 being killed and 50 injured. MOUNT KEMBLA MINE. By Telegraph— Prw? Association—Copyright Sydney, Sept. -. A great fall cf earth, the result of heavy rain, has blocked the entrance to the main tunnel of the Mount Kernbla mine, impeding restoration work.

FEDERAL HOUSE. A GOVERNMENT DEFEAT. By Telegraph—Pres3 Association—Copyright Melbourne, Sept. 2. In the Federal House, Mr Watson, leader of the Labor party, moved to refer the Bonus Bill to a select committee. He considered it necessary, before granting a bonus to the iron industry to obtain definite information on all aspects of the question. Mr Kingston declared that the Government would heartily oppose the appointment of a committee. The House had the information, and the Senate bad endorsed the Government- proposal. To postpone the matter would wreck the proposals. After a lengthy discussion Mr Watson’s ruot'on was carried by 30 to 15. Mr Deakin thereupon declared that he was compelled to move the adjournment. The members attend to-morrow to discuss the Senate’s Tariff Message. The House adjourned. A LUNATIC’S FREAK. GETS BLOWN UP.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Sydney. Sept. 2. A patient at the Paramatta Asylum, working in a quarry, evaded the keeper and lay-across a charged hole, after the fuse had been ’ lighted. His body was smashed up.

Melbourne, Sept. 2. An injunction has been granted restraining Bloomfield producing “ Wrong Mrs Wright" at the Gaiety Theatre, on

bo grounds of its similarity with ' Wrong Mr Wright.”

Sydney, Sept. 2. Excepting Bon Voyage, Myall, and Sequence, each horse cased a point for the Epsom Handicap. There is no chungo n the betting.