CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 1977, 12 January 1907, Page 2

CABLES.

rni.SS ASSOCIATION —COUYItICIIT. LONDON, January 10.

Tlio Courts arc fining London book- , makers lioavily for otreot betting under t the now Act.

Tho British Government propose to j expend 125,000 a year on tho oxtirpation of glanders in horses. I Mrs J. P. AVagstaff, wifo of a Bedfordshire landowner, who admitted havingcommitted bigamy, was sentoncod to three days’ imprisonment. Tho Baroness Burdett Coutts loft nil her disposable property to Mr BurdeltCoutts, while tho trust estato, chiefly derivable from Coutts’ bank, passos to her nephew. Tho Triple Alliance has decided to f ako combined action at tho Hague Conference.

Tho Dulse of Cumberland’s mother, not his wife, was operated upon, and has succumbed. She suffered intensely during and after tlio operation, which was without anacsthoties, owing to her advanced ago. Tlio Independent Labor party’s programme) for the London County Council election proposes municipal ownership or control of electricity, docks, hospita’s, some collieries, milk farms, transit, including motor omnibuses, and the metropolitan and city police. The Daily Mail’s Teheran correspon dent says that Mufoz Reddin’s third son, Israt, lias raised a force of 10,000 at Lanristan, with tho liopo of captuiing tho throne. There is no prospect of sue. cess, though some trouble in the soulh is probable.

BERLIN, January 10.

Count Dornburg is seeking to interest intellectuals in tho futuro of the German, colonies. He assuies the working.classes they will benefit ■■ largely beyond their contribution to tho cost of tho colonies. He admits that Germany must at prosent forego occupancy of the Orambo country, in South-West Africa, owing to tho wnr-liko attitude of tho tribesmen. NEW YORK, January 10. An explosion has occurred in tho furnaces of Jones and Lougblin’s steel works, Pittsburg. It is reported that many have been killed and injured. Textile operatives on striko in Orizaba rejected President Diaz’s awai-d and rioted. They declined to disperse, nod troops killed 30 and wounded many. CALCUTTA, January 10. The Ameer of Afghanistan,in a speech. at Agra, expressed pleasure that he had visited the United Provinces. GENEVA, January 10. A railway is being constructed from Zermatt to tho top of the Matterhorn. MADRID, January 10. Spanish bishops unanimously protested to King Alfonso that tho Associations Bill if passed will produco cruel conflicts of conscience. Those complying with its enactments will incur excommunication with censure inflicted for invasion of the Papal rights, jurisdiction and authority. King Alfonso replied that as constitutional Sovereign, with all due respect to tho prelates, ho could rnorely hand tho petition to the responsible members, as ho had done in tho case of all previous addresses on the subject.

SYDNEY, January 11 Ninety-five moro vessels, with an increased tonnage of 677,000, arrived at Sydney last year, as compared with 1905. Mr J. C. Williamson retires from theatrical management shortly. .- MELBOURNE, January 11. Tharemains of Dr Rainy will be finally interred at Edinburgh early in March. Tho building strike has ended. The men resume this morning. A conference between tho ma-ters and men will shortly settlo points in dispute. Work of an estimated value of 1200,000 was at a standstill through the striko, while it is estimated tho men lest X’36,000 in wages. The union paid about 1110,000 in strike pay Tho Roj al Insurance Company has purchased the business of the Northern Accident Insurance Company, of Glasgow and London, and is applying to the Imperial Parliament for an amendment of tho original deed of settlement to permit this class of business being carried on. ADELAIDE, Jan. 11. Mr Reid, in tho. course of a speech, regretted tho introduction of sectarianism into politics. 110 bliunrd tho Roman Catholic Church for being llic instigato-, and said the Cardinal’s action in making bitter partisan speeches' was without parallel.

Tho Austra'asian Science Association passed a resolution expresing satisfaction with tbc completion - of the magnetic survey of tho Middle Island of New Zealand, and also of the effort made to extend the survey to outlying islands, It trusts tho Government of New Zealand may see its way to include Macquarie Islands, BRISBANE, Jan. 11, Bush fires swept thousands of acres of splendid grass country in Longreacli district. Tho fire had a frontage pi thirty miles. It is supposed to have been caused by lightning. Tho Fijian Government have secured a number of deported Kanakas for work on the plantations. HOBART, Jan. 11. Tho ss, Maheno made a record trip of fifty-six hours from the Bluff to Hobart. _ . Received 10.35 p.m., Jan.'ll. PARIS, Jan. 11. A priest was acquitted at Toulon for celebrating Mass without notification. Tho court declared that neither the law of 1905 or 1881 was applicable. STOCKHOLM, Jan. 11. A violent earthquake occurred at Arveka, Sweden. Houses wore rocked. Tho shocks were accompanied with subterranean rumblings. LONDON, Jan .11. Shocks and rumblings liavo boon experienced in Christiana and other parts of Scandinavia, at Eketeronburg, and Pennsylvania.

TOKIO, Jan. 11. The Japanese estimates provide for tho army to he increased by four divisions. Received 10.45 p.m., Jan. 11. LONDON, Jan. 11. Customs officers in London stopped largo parcels of Australian leather because the export certificates showed that they contained sugar, glucose, analysts showing that- the most they contained was about 7 per cent, of sugar, instead of 22 per cent., on which the Customs arc claiming duty. This is delaying delivery to consignees. It is considered that export certificates arc unnecessary. They are not used for American or Argentine leather, which contains sugar, but enters free. Air. Coghhui has written to the Customs authorities asking the same treatment of all leathers. ' King Edward farcwelled the Duke of Connaught on his starting as In-spector-General to tour tho Straits Settlements, the Duchess and daughor accompanying him.

Lord Mint-o was present. at Agra, where tiie reception of the Ameer was brilliant. The Ameer was most cordial and tactful. Received 10.54 p.m., Jan. 11. LONDON, Jan .11. It is apparent that the Government will not- risk a contest at Manchester. The Tribune is able to announce that Mr. Bryce’s successor will be Mr. Birrell, and Mr. Birrell’s successor will most probably be Harcourt. The Tribune declares that the issue with the House of Lords must be faced in earnest. It would be ridiculous to offer Ireland as a boon a timid scheme which she would contemptuously reject. Liberals cannot ignore their pledges to Ireland, nor acquiesce in the certainty of the Lords’ veto. Mr. Birroll's duty was to draft a tentative scheme for a transition from a period of sympathetic English Government to the full consummation of Irish self-government. A chamber really representing the people, however limited its powers, will focus, train, and discipline opinion which must one day be supreme.

CAPETOWN, Jan. 11. King Edward, in the interest of Orangia, has asked Mr. Gould Adams to remain after the grant of responsible government. The announcement has been received with enthusiasm at a meeting. The' Bloemfontein Municipality, who were big applicants for the Cape loan,, were allotted one-lath cf iheir subscription.

PIETEItMARITZBPRO, Jan. 11. Natal is issuing three-quarters of a million at Jj, at 95.

COB.HIT, Jan. 11. Sailed, at 1 p.m., Rimitakn, for Wellington, '

Received Jail. 12, 12.30 n.m. SYDNEY, Jan. 11. Sailed, Star of Australia for Auckland. Arrived, Blaliono. AN INVENTOR’S SECRET. Received 10.19 p.m., Jan. 11. LONDON, Jan. 11. Mr. Austin, tho Victorian inventor who .siilnnitted an invention to. the War Office, informed interviewers that twioo attempts woro made to search himself and his Cabin aboard the Mongolia, but tho efforts failed. Ho did not keep an appointment to land at Marseilles. A man going in his stead was knocked on tho lioad and searched. Germans and Jnpan- ! ea:; approached Mr. Austin in London, vainly urging him to disclose the secret whereby ho claims to be able to sight big guns with absolute accuracy up to a range of twelve miles.

MAIL ROUTES. Received 10.19 p.m., Jan. 11. A project will shortly be submitted to Parliament involving an expenditure of one million and a quarter for acceleration of all Uritish mail routes in the Far Fast, via tho proposed new fort at Black Sod Bay, bringing Halifax within four days of London, and Vancouver within 188 hours of London. , IRISH AFFAIRS. Received 10.19 p.m., Jan. 11. LONDON, Jan. 11. Mr. O’Brien, interviewed, stated that Mr. Devlin had deferred defaming him until tho Atistralian collections were complete. Sheehan and John Donnell had been expelled without any form of trial, and without consulting the party. The effect oi: opinion is that south-east and west Cork, east Kerry, and South Mayo openly sided with tho Mid-Cork party, which was only kept alive by American and Australian subscriptions, contributed on a total misapprehension. Ho stated that the League was dying on its legs. The administration of funds would now ho investigated by means of Sheehan’s and O’Donnell’s legal action. Donovan’s statements did not deserve notice in Ireland, where ho was quite, unknown outside two wards of Belfast.

RUSSIAN AFFAIRS. ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 10. Russian police are decapitating tho executed terrorists or suicides, and preserving their heads in spirits to faciltate identification. Colonel Androiff. Chief of the Lodg gendarmes, was shot dead in the street . His assassin escaped. General Pavloff scarcely venture! outside his official residence. Extraordinary precautions were taken to prevent the entrance of strangers. Tho assassin emptied two revolvers while trying to escape. Received 10.35 p.m., Jan. 11. ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 11. On informers’ denunciation, one hundred revolutionary terrorists have been arrested at Warsaw. The Czar wrote on the official report of Paviloff’s death, “A loss difficult to replace of an honest, strong man.” The court-martial sentenced the assassain to death. FIRE ON MANUKA. MAILS AND LUGGAGE DAMAGED BY WATER. Received Jan. 10, 11 p.m. SYDNEY, Jan. 11. On Wednesday evening a fire was discovered in Number 5 hold of the Manuka. The stewardess noticed heat coming from the ventilator. The fire was found to be in a shipment of flax. Water was poured into the. hold till the cargo -was covered, and by six on Thursday morning the fire was extinguished. Water found its way to the mail room, and wet the mails and passengers’ luggage. No alarm was.felt aboard.

J. C. WILLIAMSON. Received Jan. 10, 11 p.m. SYDNEY, Jan. 11. Mr. J. C. Williamson states that tho interviewer misinterpreted him In a general way ho had stated that after a. Jong and strenuous life he had earned a rest, but he had no intention of retiring until tho present partnership, which had several years to run, had terminated. FRISCO SERVICE. NEW YORK, Jan. 10. Tho American Ship Subsidy Bill is regarded as dead', owing to dissensions in the House of Representatives. AUCKLAND, this day. Mr. Coekroft, - general passenger agent of tho Oceanic Company, n w in Auckland on route, to Sail Francisco, was interviewed regarding UnAmerican Subsidies Bill. He express ed surprise at tho cabled report at its probablo rejection. Mr. Canim, Speaker of the Congress, had been under the impression, lie sail, that the Bill would go through, an.l tie still thought the. measure w ull be carried. Asked how i tho rejejti n of the Bill would affect tho ’Frts :o line, Mr. Cocroft replied that he did not know, and did not say anyth'ng cn tho subject.

THIRTY-FOUR. OVERWHELM iID BY MOLTEN METAL. NEW YORK, Jan. 10. A gas explosion at Jones and Laughlin’s liberated streams of mol ten metal tiro feet deep. Out of 35 employes only one escaped unhurt, b.> racing faster than the metal fij-yed. Tho rest were fatally injured and incinerated.