GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 1972, 7 January 1907, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

Pross Association—Copyright. LONDON, Jan. 4. During earthquake shocks in Mon lnouthshire housos were much shaken The success of General. Booth’s an tisuicicle bureau is so markod tlia branch offices have been opened ii the largo provincial towns. Mr W. P. Peeves, New Zealand High Commissioner, is sending the Wellington branch of the Navy League a piece of canvas from the Victory’s sail used at Trafalgar. Fourteen thousand of all classes visited the lato Baroness BurdettCoutt’s catafalque at her Stratton street residence. M. Gambon, the French Ambassador in London, lias been appointed Ambassador at Berlin. PABIS, Jan. 4'. The South African footballers de-

| fon tod a team representing the Racing Club, France, by 59 points to.o. Cassatt, president of the Pennsylvania Railway Company, lias died, leaving estate valued at 2u million pounds sterling. The Federal Court, Chicago, has sustained eight indictments charging the Standard Oil Company with accepting railway rebates. The trials are proceeding.

BERLIN, Jan. 4. The officers of the Hamburg steamship lino liavo decided to yield to the shipowners’ demand. Uermany, in the current year, builds an armored turbine cruiser of 20,QU0 tons, costing £1,300,000, not including cost of armament. CAPETOWN, Jail. 4. The Boer leader, Van Blonmicnstein, who is opposing Abe Bailey for the Krugorsdorp seat, does not favor the immediate repatriation of Chinese, and considers the Imperial Government’s control qf the natives I as an obstacle to such legislation as would ensure labor being obtained from native sources,

MOROCCO, Jan. 4. The Angora tribesmen have submitted- to the Sultan of Morocco. Raisuli intercepted and robbed tlie Bonimesawar tribesmen of presents intended for his successor.

(SYDNEY, Jan. 5. English farm laborers are arriving in fairly large numbers, as the fesqlt of Government assisted Immigration, Senator >jt. Ledger, Interviewed, claimed that a splendid women’s vote had won the anti-Socialist victory in Queensland.

lhe Herald, dealing with the question of repatriation of Kanakas, calls attention to the fact that in the Island of Malaita, from whence a majority' ol the Kanakas of Queensland aye recruited, each villusc keeps a number qf female slaves for jmnioral purposes. Female children bqrii in Australia are regarded as not possessing tribal rights, and there is little doubt they wll be made slaves when they return with their parents. The Herald* adds that the missionaries will give sanctuary to all as far as they' can, but even the mission stations of Malaita are not altogether safe against raids. The matter is one requiring prompt attention, with a, vew to preventing the deportation of young'girls,' born and reared in Queensland, to such a life. It is too repugnant for even the warmest advocate of Kanaka expulsion to contemplate.

BRISBANE, Jail. o. Ex-Senator H iggs, in q letter to the newspaper Worker, gives amongst the reasons' for the defeat of the Socialist party that in Queensland there was a more lavish expenditure of money than at any previous election. It came from rich shareholders in rings and trusts, ' which were threatened by' the labor platform, from men whom it pays to contribute thousands of pounds to keep out of Parliament tlie representatives of the masses.

A fire in the main street of Roma destroyed five and damaged five shops. Tjiere js no estimate of the (lamngp,

MELBOURNE, Jan. 5. Mr Taverner has been re-appointed Agent-General for three years, at a salary of £IOOO.