LATE CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 985, 3 September 1903, Page 2

LATE CABLES.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Received 1.4 a.in., Sept. 3. London, Sept. 2. Commenting upon the Duke of Devonshire’s emphatic denial of a rumor published in the Westminster Gazette that he intended resigning, the Standard says : It was what everybody knowing ins character and career would have expected from a statesman enjoying a large measure of national reputation for steadiness and strength. The Standard proceeds to suggest a duty exclusively for revenue purposes of Is tld to 2s on foreign grain, also a revenue duty on Hour. It advises Mr Chamberlain to abandon Imperial preferential tariff, and release Unionists from a position of uuenedurakle embarrassment. It adds : Government might devise a curtailment of the operation of forc-igu trusts and Scale-aided producers, A floating exhibition nr British manufactures starts to visit nil the colonies early next year, representatives of nearly one hundred firms accompanying it. Deceived 11.43 p.in., Sept. 2. Pekin, Sept. 2. A Prussian company at Tientsin chartered the- American owned and British registered steamer Stanley Dollar to fetch lumber from Yoligampho. A Japanese gunboat prevent, d the steamer entering the harbor on the ground that it was not an open port.

Received 10.31 p.m. Sept. 2. SYDNEY, Sept. 2. The balance of lho.se. charged with playing “ two up ” have been dealt with. The chairman of the school was fined £SO, and twenly-one others 50s each.

Received 1.2 a m., Sept. 8. Sydney, Sept. 2. Sailed : 2.50 p.m., Talime.

Melbourne, Sept. 2. The Senate adopted a resolution in favor of Government negotiating with tho Slate Government with a view to the adoption of a system of old age pensions throughout the Commonwealth.