LATE CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 854, 31 March 1903, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

CUBAN TREATY. By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright,

Received 11.19 p.m., March 30. NEW YORK. March 30. The Cuban .Senate has accepted the d America a Senate’s amendment, to the 3 reciprocity treaty. ( SENSITIVE CHINESE. ; LONDON. March 30. ; The Chinese Court, after the cere- - niouy of worshipping the tombs of , the Imperial family 'in April, retires ] to Paotingfu, where it. remains as llong as possible, owing n> the humiliation of residing at Pekin under foreign guns. ASSASSINS. COPENHAGEN, March 30. The walls of Copenhagen have;been placarded, warning the Kaiser not to pay his proposed visit. Some of them threaten “ death to the t» rant.”MAMMOTH STEAMER. Received 11.36 p.m., March 36. LONDON, March 30. ...The Moldavia, the largest steamer of the P 3 and O, Company's fleet, has been launched at Greenock., MARCONIGRAMS. The New York correspondent of the Times daily transmits Marcouigrams to his paper. The cost is a little in excess of “the telegraphic rates bc--1 tWCCfI England and France. J CZAR’S MANIFESTO. 1 ST. PETERSBURG, March 30^ 1 The Czar’s manifesto relieves the r peasants of eleven and a-lialf million s pounds arrears of taxation.

A WONDERFUL CUN. SOO SHOTS PER MINUTE, By .telegraph—Press AssociationCopyright. NEW YORK, March 29. The Cleveland machine-gun, firing 800 lib projectiles per minute, has been tested at New York.... Gener a l Miles declares it is the most wonderful and deadly, machine-gun in existence^ IMPORTING THE PLAGUE. FREMANTLE, March 30. The steamer Sultan has arrived from Singapore. The chief steward is suffering from plague. .The vessel has been quarantined, but she bad previously been for 24 hours in free communication with tbe shore. THE POOR KANAKA. MELBOURNE, March 30. Sir Edmund Barton repudiates the suggestion that Kanakas are deported from Queensland io be killed, cooked, and eaten. Every precaution, he says, will be taken, and if there is any danger in Kanakas being returned to a particular island they, >vili be taken to another.