CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 1975, 10 January 1907, Page 2

CABLES.

I'ltliHß ASSOCIATION COPYRIGHT. Received 10.54 p.m., Jan. 9. LONDON, Jan. 9. King I'M ward will open Parliament in State.

The Times, commenting on the Pool'd of Trade returns,' says: “Britain lias done nothing fiscally to bring about the present period of prosperity, which was considerably overdue. Tho wave of trade activity is general in all the Protectionist nations as fully as in Britain. The Times’ Agra correspondent says that the Ameer halted at Nowsliera and Kawalpina. Ho showed kis knowledge of artillery by paying close attention to the field pieces. He expressed admiration for the movements of tho troops.

NEW YORK, Jan. 9. The Sun, a New York journal, commenting on railway and other disclosures, denounces the methods of the men controlling corporations,' in corruptly buying infamous advantages over competitors ,buying legislators, and vitiating. the moral sense of the whole community. MOROCCO, Jan. 9. The chief of the Wedras tribe is negotiating with Gcneryl Guebbas as to terms for the transfer of Raisuli. ROME, Jan. 9. The Pope, owing to tho separation

law, has relinquished France’s Peters’ pence, amounting to £20,000 sterling per annum. PIETERMARITSBURG, Jan. 9. Subject to Parliamentary sanction, Mr. Moor (the Premier) proposes to oiler Crown Lands to settlers on Natal, rent free, for 5 years, with loan to provide implements, cattle, and seed on easy terms, Received Jan. 10, 11.25 p.m. LONDON, J •. ... 9. The Union Bank has declared a dividend of 10 per cent., and a bonus of 2 per cent.; £35,000 has been added to the reserve, £IO,OOO to premises account, £20.000 to the offices’ fund, and £31,000 carried forward. Major Long, of the Army Service Branch, inspects the meat packing establishments iii South America and Australasia.

COLOMBO, Jan. 9. Stevenson’s copra mills at Colombo have been burnt. The damage is £50,000 sterling. NEW YORK, Jan. 9. Mr. Taft, addressing the Army Committee at Washington, urged increased artillery. PEKIN, Jan. 9. Chinese Commissioners sent to Manchuria recommend the Government to reacquire the railway, milling and other privileges from Russians and Japanese. Received 1.10 a.m., Jan. 10.

SYDNEY, Jan. 9. A case of plague is reported. The victim was employed in a warehouse in the centre of the city. One hundred tins of opium were seized aboard the Miowera bearing the mailt of a Vancouver firm. A man has been arrested in connection with the discovery of the bomb at Mosman Bay. It is alleged that he threatened the owner of the house for dismissing him. A quantity of the fuse and detonators was found in the man’s house . Arrived at 4.15 the Monowai; sailed at 2 the Wimmera.

MELBOURNE, Jan. 9. Arrived, Speciulant, from Kaipara. Notification has been received by Captain Collins,- Federal Representative in London, that commissions for Australian and New Zealand medical officers in the navy will be available for a further term of 3 years.

AMERICA AND JAPANESE. CALIFORNIA’S STAND. Received 9.7 p.m., Jan. 9. NEW YORK, Jan. 9. Air. Lardel, Governor of California, in a message to the Stato Legislature, declared that President Roosevelt, with others from Eastern parts of tho country, failed to understand the racial difference between Japanese and Chinese on the one hand, anil the whites 011 the other. The Japan-

ese could not make good American citizens He adds: “Until the courts decided otherwise, California reserves the right and privilege to conduct under State, National and treaty laws its schools in’ tho manner it deems best, and this without the slightest disrespect to the national Government or foreigners.”

DEATH OF THE SHAH. Received 10.54 p.m., Jan. 9. LONDON, Jan. 9. The Daily Alail’s Teheran correspondent announces the death of the Shah . AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA. GUARDS TALK OF DEPOSING ' CZAR, Received Jan. 9, 11.25 p.m.

LONDON, Jan. 9. The Tribune’s St. Petersburg correspondent mentions that a gathering of officers of the guards to devise a shower of petitions urging the Czar to destroy tile Douma and restore. autocracy. If the petitions fail it was proposed to remove the Czar, and substitute one of his uu cles.

ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 9. Count Witte, interviewed, declared tJiat if the Domna were irreconciliable like tho first, it would be dissolved, and possibly an effort made to further restrict file suffrage, and if a third Domna were unworkable the Czar’s October manifesto would bo repealed.

DINIZULU. PIETERAIARITZBURG, Jan. 8. The Natal Government consider the evidence insufficient to prosecute Dinizuhi in connection with the recent Natal rising.

t Commenting on a previous cable- ; gram, it was pointed out that there* ■ could be little doubt that Dinizulu was cognisant of the intention to rebel, He did not take the field, but d he had desired to do so he could not,, as ho weighs a good deal more than 20 stone, and whs in ill-health. There worn reports in June that lie had “doctored” his regiments fori war, and that messengers from the rebel leaders had visited him. Hoi no doubt, was in a very difficult posi- I tion. If he had proclaimed himself I (or the rebellion the war would have) attained much greater dimensions, | and at the same time had he really | been against the outbreak be could have prevented many of the impis | from taking the field. It is the opinion in Natal that the chief danger from the Zulus lies in the fact that in Dinizulu the natives have a | < king to whom they owe the same blind obedience that was given to Chaleo, Panda, and Cotewayo before bill). Should his connivance in the rebellion be' proved there is little doubt the opportunity will be seized to depose him. Mr. Steinbank was treacherously killed in May when c near a ford in the Vryheid district cl with Constable Sells and Mrs. Stei- v bank and another lady. The cou- cl stable also was wounded, t

MESSAGE OF PLACE

i. STEAD AGAIN TO THE FORE

LONDON, Jan. 8. Mr. W. T. Stead is touring Europe and interviewing tho leading statesmen on behalf of the Hague Conference. He states that Sir H. Camp-bell-Bannerman is likely to represent Britain at tho Hague, and adds that Sir Edward Grey authorised him to

declare that Britain proposed that civilised nations should come to an understanding in preventing war or rendering it rare. Sir H. Campbell-Bannerman also desired that all civilised countries should contribute pecuniarily towards tho cost of spreading peaceful ideas ,and attached importance to the necessity of making it obligatory that before two bellicose nations commenced hostilities twenty days should elapse, thus enabling friendly Powers to offer to mediate.

CONSUMPTIVE GERMS. AERIAL INFECTION. ADELAIDE, Jan. 9. At a sitting of the Science Congress Dr. Greig Smith, president of the sanitary science section, referred to , as most dangerous the method of aerial infection from a consumptive s cough. He considered the danger of infection through the sputum was exaggerated. When thrown .to the ground it fell as paste, which drieu in a stiff mass that broke up after a lapse of considerable time into comparatively large particles, which were not easily transported. Exposures to light and air weakened the bacilli to such an extent that they were unable to set up tuberculosis in an extremely sensitive guinea pig, otherwise than with the greatest of difficulty.

COMMERCIAL. THE WOOL SALES. I'll ESS ASSOCIATION- COI’YBIGIIT. Received Jan. 9, 7 p.m. ANTWERP, Jan. 9

There was a good attendance at the Antwerp sales. The market was fairly animated. Compared with the November sales merinos showed from par to 5 centimes advance. Common crossbreds were irregular. Fine crossbreds rose 10 centimes. 1984 bales from La Plata were offered, and 929 sold.

Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, yesterday. The third series of Christchurch wool sales was held to-day. The attendance of buyers was again large. A catalogue of 15,569 bales was readily disposed of at rates well up to those of the last sale, 143 d being realised for several lots of super, halfbred. Merino wool is firmer than before, the local factories competing vei-y keenly for it. CHRISTCHURCH, last night. The third wool sales of this season’s series was held at the Canterbury Hall to-day, when 15,569 bales were catalogued. There was a large attendance of home, continental and local buyers, and the competition was exceptionally keen. The catalogues contained a good proportion of good stations clips, the merinos being of better quality than that offered at the previous sales. All descriptions of half-bred were very firm, and prices if anything in advance of those ruling at the previous sale. There appeared to be no change in crossbreds, but merino sold better. Very few lots wore passed, and the sale concluded to-night. The range of pirices was:—Super-merino, 12d to 133 d; medium, 10|d to 113 d; inferior, 9jd to 10jd; quarter bred, I2d to 143 d; super, half-bred, 13d to 15d; medium, lid to 12d; inferior, lOd to 12d; Corriedale, to 14*d; super, three-quarter-bred, 12d to -J3d; medium, IOJd to ll£d; inferior, 9£d to 10 jd; super, crossbred, 12d to 12Jd; medium, lOd to 11-id; inferior, 9d to 93d; long wool, 9d to 10|di Shropshire, lOd to 12d; merino pieces, B£d ; first'half-bred pieces, lOd til 13d; second pieces, BJd to 9|d; first crossbred pieces, 8d to 9d; second pieces,' 6d to 7-Jd; locks, 5d to Od. /The highest priced clip was J. Phillips, The Point, Rakaia, whose merino sold up to 133 d, and half-bred lod. Culverden merino made up to lo.ld; Gerald merino, 13d to 131 : half-bred, 14-jil; Mount Somers halfbred, 143d’-t.o 19d. Many lots of halfbred sold at 14d to 143 d.