LATE GABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 818, 5 February 1903, Page 2

LATE GABLES.

By Telegraph —Press AssociationCopyright. Received 10 5 p.m., Feb. -1. Sydney, l'eb. 1. A progress report of the stock returns to the end of lust year gives some idea of the disastrous effect of the drought. Singletou aud Cornua districts have not yet supplied re; urns, out tiie final figures wiit he largely altered. The number of sheep is stated to bo 2 [,-*7O 00' 1 , a decrease of 17,:>S1.01)0 coin pared with the previous year; cattle. 1.100,000, a decrease of

S‘JN,(mil: horses. Slid t>s4, a decrease of I'd,-I To. In IsOl there were

id,Ml,ooo sheep. Sinew then there lias beeu a steady yearly decrease. The Labor Conference severely commented on the utterances of Justices Bring aud Rogers, while adjudicating in recent cases, where they took occasion to condemn the Shearers’

Union strike tactics, aud adopted a resolution for presentation to tho At-torney-General. declaring that the remarks constituted unwarranted attacks on the Trades Union, and showed bias unbecoming the judicial bench, and asking that, in the interests of justice, the Judges be called upon for an official explanation. Arrived, at 1 p.m., the Mokoia. -DR” DOWTE.

New York, Feb. Dowie holds a mission at New York in October, assisted by two hundred converts. If it proves successful he will build another Zion city. MURDERESSES EXECUTED. London, Feb. o. The murderers Sack and Walters have been executed in Holloway Gaol. They displayed remarkable fortitude. PLAGUE OUTBREAK. Perth, Feb. o. Plague officers ridicule the suggestion that tho outbreak was due to a fresh importation, aud declare that the germs have been dormant siuee the previous outbreak.