LATE CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 938, 10 July 1903, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright Received 10.29 p.m., July 9. London, July 9. A civil list pension of £250 has been ' granted to Mr Justin McCarthy, tho wellknown novelist. The Lough Vale Celtic ornaments, recently declared to bo treasure trove, have been presented to the Royal Irish Academy. The Atlantic Shipping Ttust’s profits for the half year totalled £150,000. Router’s Shanghai Agency reports that a secret conference of high Russion officials is proceeding at Port Arthur. It is expected to decide in favor ol Witte’s peace policy.

Received 0.23 a.m., July 10. NEWCASTLE, July 9. Sailed : The New Guinea, fur Auckland.

MELBOURNE, July 9. The Naval Bill debate is proceeding. Mr Reid (Leader ol the Opposition), concluding a speech dealing with Australian and Empire defence, wherein he expressed sympathy with those favoring the creation of an \ Australian navy, said in giving his cordial vote for this agreement as some slight acknowledgment of the -great benefits derived from the Empire he could not shut his eyes to tiic fact that the -payment of a subsidy was beginning in a very plausible way—a way that, had it been submitted in 1887, would have been rejected by, the people ol Australia..