LATE CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 960, 5 August 1903, Page 3

LATE CABLES.

By Telegraph— Press Association—Copyright Received 9.45 p.m., Aug. 4, 1 , London, Aug. 4. Tho King and Queen witnessed the Kaiser’s yacht Meteor win the schoonors’ handicap race at Cowes regatta. An engagement is announced between Lord Ivoagh’s oldest son and Lord Onslow’s eldest daughter. Tyldesley and Braund have accepted the Marylebone Club’s terms to join Warner’s toam of cricketers for Australia, the latter on condition of tho Somerset County Club agreeing. In tho House of Lords the Irish Land Bill was read a second time without division. y The Haguo, Aug. 4. Queen Wilholmina and her consort visit the Netherlands colonies in tho ooming winter, the Queen's mother acting as Bogent during her absence. St. Petersburg, Aug. 4. One of Russians new battleships, of the same typo os tho recently launched English battleship King Edward the Seventh, will have a tonnage of 16,500, and a speed , of 18 knots. The armament will consist of four 12-inch, twelve 8-inch, and eight turret guns. She will cost elevon million roubles, and be tho lareest and swiftest vessel in the Russian fleot.

Vienna, Ang. 4. * Twolvo waggons laden with stones bocame uncoupled ascending an incline and crashed into a passongor train on the Suchar-Austrian-Silesia line, killing 80 and injuring 50 seriously. Tokio, Aug. 4. Japanoso newspapers assert that Russia is building barracks throughout , Manchuria and storing rifles at strategic points. Received 12.17 a.m., August 5. Hobart, Aug. 4. Sailed: 4 a.m., Paparoa for Now Zealand. Melbourne, Aug. 4. In the House several petitions were presented in favor of a prohibition on the importation and sale of intoxicating liquors in Now Guinea. Mr Fyah said that nothing had yet been paid the Federal Government in respect to the existing agreement between the States and the 'Eastern Extension Co.; <£21,000 on the estimates for new lines involvod an agreement between the Commonwealth and company.- ", In the Now Guinea Bill, in Committee, a new clause was added, prohibiting the importation, manufacture, and ealo of intoxicants or opium in the territory, except ing for medicinal purposes on the order of a doctor, and repealing the present laws allowing tbo production and sale. Mr Mangher, the mover of the clause, stated there were fourteen licenses in the territory. It was scarcely credible that they could all get a living from the 500 whites resident in New Guinea; The assumption was that much liquor got to the natives. Sir E. Barton and Mr Reid opposed the prohibition, and contended that the present legislation was working well. Another new clause was adopted providing that 5 per cent of territorial revenue oaoh year be devoted to the maintenance and welfare of'aboriginos. ■Received 0.29 a.m., Aug. 5. LONDON, Aug 4. All sections of the Irish press comment favorably on the King's | farewell-message. The Nationalist organs declare that the Royal visit cannot fail to improve the prospects of homo rule. The Freeman’s Journal says thrift until Ireland is granted independence there can be no active’ loyalty. Received 1.2 a.m., Aug. 5. SYDNEY, Aug. 4. Replying to a deputation representing the Methodist body, who complained of the insufficient local opticn clauses in the new Liquor bill, the State Treasurer declared that he .would never bo a party to a Bill allowing the closing o£ hotels under any circumstances without compensation in some shape or form—- ‘ real compensation, not, shadowy.”