CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 1967, 31 December 1906, Page 2

CABLES.

PJIISBB ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT. Received Dec. 30, 4.24 p.m. LONDON, Dec. 28. A slight earthquake is reported from North Saghalieii. The Board of Trade, is experimentally offering individual firms confidential information heretofore issued to Chambers of Commerce by the Commercial Intelligeme Branch. The Standard understands that a Peerage will bo offered to Sir Win. Durant. . Received Dec. 30, 4,24 p.m. SYDNEY, Dec. 30. At r i'nttersall’s meeting the Car-

rington Stakes resulted: Pompous, 1; Comatawah, 2; Banzai, 3. J here were eighteen starters. The betting was 7 to 2 against, Arlington, 4 to 1 Pompous, 20 to 1. the others. Pompous won by a length, the time being 1 min. 13:1 secs.

PERT! 1, Dec. 30. The Perth Cup resulted: May King 1, Spinder 2, Charles Stuart 3. Received Dec. 30, 1 a.in. LONDON, Dec. 30. In the football match the South Africans defeated Lanelly by. 10 points to 3. Obituary: Tucker, formerly Art Professor, in Melbourne. Received Dec. 30, 12.24 a.m. SYDNEY, Dec. 30. The meat trade difficulty has been amicably settled. The masters accepted the proposal of the men to go to work to-morrow on the conference terms instead of starting on them a week later. NEWCASTLE, Dec .30. Arrived, Brantley front Dunedin. PORT STEPHENS, Dec. 30. Sailed, Rio for Wellington. MELBOura H, Dec. 30. Arrived, James Craig for Thames; Warrimoo. MELBOURNE, Dec. 30. In the cricket match V ictoria v. South Australia the visitois in their nrst .innings made 2t>0 —Gelirs io, Mcßae 49, iVlayne Go, Jennings 41. Victoria lost three wickets for 58 — Vaughan 20. Received Dec. 30, 1 a.m. SYDNEY, Dec. 30. The cables dated the 29th are missing.

AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA. ROBBERY BY TERRORISTS. Received Dec. 30, 4.47 p.m. ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 28. Terrorists attacked Mietzyrzec station, Vistula railways. They ordered the employees to stand up; then they dynamited the safe, and stole 1900 roubles. DISORDER IN CUBA. AMERICAN TROOPS ASSIST. AUTHORITIES. / Received Dec. 30, 4.42 p.m. HAVANA, Dec. 23. The civil authorities being unable to maintain order in Cuba, the American troops have been considerably reinforced, and aro suppressing disorders. THE GREAT STORMS. WRECK OF A JAPANESE LINER. THRILLING SCENES. Received Dec. 30, 4.47 p.m. LONDON, Dec. 28.

Thrilling scenes were witnessed at Redcar during tlie rescue up to midnight of seventy out of a hudred and twenty of the crew of the Japanese liner Awamaru, wrecked on West Car Rock. There was a terrible sea running, but later on the balance of the crew got away from the vessel, some in lifeboats, some in fishing boats, and the .rest by means of the ship’s boats. Several trains were snowed up between Carlisle and Ediuborougli. The •passengers were foodless all night. Many telegraph, wires are down. All places north of Glasgow have been cut off, also Penzance.

EMIGRATION FROM SPAIN. DESERTING A TOWN. Received Dec. 30, 4.47 p.m. MADRID, Dec. 28. The whole of the nine thousand inhabitants of Bigar, Spain, decided to emigrate to America. LONDON, Dee. 28. The Presidents of Nicaragua and Uruguay offered transports, and to supply capital for spinning mills.

MOROCCO. \ RAISULI’S PRESTIGE CRUSHED. Received Dec .30, 4.24 p.m. MOROCCO, Dec. 28. The bulk of the Sliireefian army proceeded to Anjera border. The chiefs of tlie neighboring villages were shown the Sultan’s letter, deposing Raisuli and appointing a pasha from Tangier to succeed him. The meeting was cordial. The chiefs, glad to get rid of exactions' ,swore obedience. ** Sir Mahon.med GaWis (Minister for War) expkmed ;3 J}be reforms. The chiefs were sijjwgfied. The Fahsia tribes aseinblcs to-day to hear the loiter read.

Raisuli’s prestige has been crushed There arc indications that lie will proceed to the interior.

Raisuli was appointed Governor of the Tangier town aiid district, and had his own army. He, however’, was expressing a desire for a massacie of the Christians of Tangier, and ip i aliens ways had been conduct! eg himself tyran icully. To protect the Europeans, Franco and Spain sent, several warships to Tangier, and 2209

Loops ready to land." Then the Moorish Minister for War• appearui at Tangier with ail army of ,'iOOO men, and encamped within the walls of Tangier. His object ostensibly was to remove Raisuli from liis post; but apparently he concerned himself only with • preventing Raisuli cominitti .g such acts as will justify the landing of the European troops. Gabbas was in a strategic position, for if Raisuli attached him lie would have the support of the foreign troops, and if the European troops attached liim he would have the support of Raisuli. Pf pliably the latter will be heard f'ioin again.)

A MINISTER’S SURPRISE^ OFFICIALS CAUGHT NAPPING. Received Dec. 30, 4.3 p.m. LONDON, Dec. 23. The Chronicle states that the new French Minister fof'tlie Colonies, disguised as a linen merchant; went to the Ministry to seek information, and found two-thirds of tlie officials i-vore übss ”5., The.,me;iorit.v-.are .like! v

GERMANY’S LITTLE WAR.

JUBILATION OF CENTRE PARTY,

Received Dec. 30, 4.35 p.m. • . BERLIN, Dec. 30

The Ceni re is ‘jubilantly arguing that the Bundelzwartg surrender justifies the Reichstag’s attitude. TJlo North German Gazette upholds thcGovernment's action, and reprints ill: reply to the Centre, the Kaiso’. ’s speech cabled on the 11th August last, f

(A cablegram received on the 27th stated : “In official' circles in Berlin it is confidently believed that the war in South-West Africa will lie soon

ended. The rebel leader, Join: Christian, with 155 men and 124 rifles .has surrended at Bundolwartz, They have been given locations near Keetinundshoep and Kalfontein.)

A TRAGEDY. PERTH, Dec. 29. A man named Viscoinrich shot a young girl, named Campbell at Belmont and then shot himself. Both are dead. The cause is unknown. MASSACRE BY INDIANS. NEW YORK, Dec. 28. One hundred Yagui Indians, near, Valencia county, Sonora, Mexico, massacred twelve whites engaged in the construction of a railway. SUEZ CANAL CHARGE.

MELBOURNE, Dec. 29. Mr. Deakin recently sought through the Imperial Government to secure a reduction of the Suez Canal dues, on the ground that the high tariff placed restrictions on trade by the shortest route. Lord Elgin, replying, encloses a letter from the British directors of the Canal, pointing out that the increase of traffic was proportionate to the growth of the maritime commerce of the world in a very exact measure, and paradoxical as -it may appear, the directors had been assured by large shipowners that while they welcomed reductions in tariff, these reductions practically had no effect in increasing traffic. A matter of far greater importance was the widening and deepening of the channel. The directors considered any further reduction would practically amount to a sudsidy to ships using the Canal at the cost, to a great extent, of pecuniary loss to the British Government. Lord Elgin adds: “I am informed by the Treasury and Board of Trade that they concur in the directors’ views, therefore, I think nothing would be gained by an attempt to pursue the object.*' with due regard to the interests of \ those who have purely financial concern in the affairs of the Suez Canal.”