CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 1976, 11 January 1907, Page 2

CABLES.

J.JIKSS ASSOCIATION —COrYIIICIIT. Received Jan. 10, 11.56 p.m; LONDON, Jan. 10. Owing to the excessive number in store the Brennan torpedo manufacture lias been temporarily suspende ... HOME, Jan. 10. Mount Etna is emitting smoko and flashes of red fire.

MADRID, Jan. 10. Spanish bishops unanimously protested to King Alfonso that the Associations Bill if passed will piodu :a cruel conflicts of conscience. ihos complying with its enactments wu. incur excommunication with censure inflicted for invasion of the j. a pal rights, jurisdiction and authority. . King Alfonso replied that as eonb- - tutional Sovereign, with all due ro ■ spects to the prelates, lie could met a ly hand the petition to the lespnusible members, as lie had done m the case of all previous addresses on tins subject. Beceived 12.27 a.m., Jan. 11. LONDON, Jan. 10. The Government are credited with an intention to introduce this year, a Bill for the establishment of a new University or University College Ot Dublin . MOBOCCD, Jan. 10. Baisuli’s followers captured the mails from Fez. Beceived 12.27 a.m., Jan. 11. SYDNEY, Jan. 10. > The Cabinet appointed Mr. Alexs under Macintosh, formerly of the 1 Bank of New Zealand, M ellington, r t 0 he Chairman of the Government Savings Bank.

Beceived 12.18 a.m., Jan. 11SYDNEY, Jan. 10. News from Summatra states that the fire on the Nctherton originated in an explosion among the cargo. Ahe vessel is a coinjilete wreck. MELBOURNE, Jan. 10. There was good competition for hides, previous rates being unchanged HOBABT, Jan .10. Arrived, Eimutaka, from London.

ECONOMIC CONGRESS. *1 Received 10.25 p.m., Jan. 10. LONDON, Jan. 10. ■'"if Mr. Haldane, presiding at the Ip- j ter national Economic Congress,, in ■ London, dwelling on the brotherhood _’ of science, admitted that the freetrade cause had suffered from certain insularity and narrowness on the part. j of some advocates. The conclusions \ regarding Britain were not necessarily fcj j true of other countries. Economists were to statesmen what a general was to the army. The commander - worked out the principles and plans, gj| but warned them that these were not sufficient to guide them in unforeseen .’•* emergencies. The statement took the particular circumstances of time and , country as a basis for the conclusions, but as the conditions of the nations ‘ _ varied, his ground was only sure if the comparison covered a nude area 1 of time and space . it/'t

OPIUM TRADE. Received 10.25 p.m., Jan. 10. j, LONDON, Jan. 10. /Jj Thirteen British firms in Hong Kong [*Sa and Shanghai, stating that they have permits for holding opium to the ex-. Sal tent of 10 million taels, ask Sir Ed- -Si ward Grey his views regarding the- -jgH manner of the extinction of the j. - ' trade, considering that it ought- to be gradual. - . ■ . ■ Mi YOUNG SCAMPS. CAUSE ENORMOUS DESTRUCTION'OF PROPERTY. LONDON, Jan. 9. ' -f Three boys, the eldest aged 13, con- s£■ fessed to robbing and firing several State schools at Walthamstow, doing damage to the extent of £12,000.

SHAH OF PERSIA. * TEHERAN, Jan. 9. f Mohammed Ali Mima, the new r-j Shah, is described as an enlightened and educated progressive . • ■ *jaH RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.

ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 9. A man, disguised as a private of „ the army service corps, fired three shots, killing General Pavloff, chief . 1 J of the military and public prosecutor, - in the courtyard of his official resideuce at St. Petersburg. The assas- '"'i sin killed a gendarme and wounded a “ - gendarme and many others before ho was arrested. The bureaucrats are panic-stricken. ' Pavloff took a lead- XiS ing part in the institution of drumhead court-martials. Received Jan. 11- 11.22 a.m. . LONDON, Jan. 10. - The Times'state that, as M. Stohv • ■ pin is the only Minister who has t shown any trace . of constructive ; statesmanship, the only wise course will he for tile next Douma, whatever may be its ultimate aspirations for complete responsible Government, 10 assist in making tile existence of any Government possible by a certain measure -of reasonable co-operatim it, unlike the first, will have Sto pin s hills affording somethin «• so. '.l to bite upon instad of running rim; through impracticable theories. ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 10. | - Negotiations between Russia and Japan for a commercial treaty have virtually been completed. Pavloff’s severity in the Baltic provinces, especially in insistence oil the exccution of youthful revolutionaries, caused him to he universally exec, a- . ted except among the supports of the - boaucracacy. ; \

THE “SPRINGBOKS.” X RECEIVE NEARLY £IO,OOO IN W GATE MONEY. /■ T , n T , LONDON, Jan. <). SU liie Daily Express says it is esti- .j mated the South African' will receive nearly £IO,OOO ./gate money, which will he devoted chiefly . to charity and the encouragement of ■Rugby in South Africa. / JOHANNESBURG, J ; j„. 9. A fund is being raised in’ Johannesburg to endow beds at .the hosI’iV'il - Vt h‘ ca to cqmmcnioratc the footballers’ English successes.

MEIKLE COMMISSION. Press Association. WELLINGTON. last nbdit Counsel for the appellant- ° finned his address before the Meik’o Commission to-day. mK.c for l ti'.e J Pr tiCC C ," op<?r ilskod eomisel O the Crown what reply the Crown made to the question that if Meikbuas cunning enough to comb thher s s-nv° m t J lO S ' ,eep " hich Liunocits sau taken away, why did i ¥? lkI “ keep brands 011 two “sheep - I hk Alr , foul . u , l i , ll tUe smithy?, I Mi. McDonald said this was exacth one of those matters-criminals so frequently overlooked, and which led to the detection of their crimes. If sheep stealers and others always did' the sensible thing in the way of concealing glide they would never be found out.