CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 1992, 30 January 1907, Page 2

CABLES.

VIIESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT. LONDON, Jan. 28. A verdict of wilful murder was returned' against Rayner. Tho latter’s birth was registered by his mother, but his reputed father denies parentage. Tho Daily Mail has discovered a gentleman who asserts that Rayner often received money from Whiteloy. VIENNA, Jan. 28. A now anti-toxin serum for dysentery has been tried on troops at Cracow, Bosnia, with great success. CALCUTTA, Jan. 28. The Ameer sacrificed one hundred slioop at the principal mosque at Delhi. Ho recoived a tromondous ovation. Tho scene was one unprecedented since tho days of tho Mogul emperors. MOROCCO, Jan. 28.

The tribes harboring Raisuli defeated tlio Sultan’s troops. The latter bad 50 killed and many wounded, and withdrew in a demoralised condition. CALCUTTA, Jan. 28.^ The British cruiser Diadem, in the Bay of Bengal, rescued 104 passengers and mails from the North German Lloyd liner Seydlitz, which was on fire whilst bound from Colombo to Penang. The Diadem escorted tho Soydlitz to Ceylon, where she remains. _ MELBOURNE, Jan. 29. Mr. Deakin, speaking at tho Australian Natives’ Association banquet, said Australia was federated but not federal; that a Commonwealth sentiment was yet to come. He predicted before Parliament closed two parties would be established, Ministerialists and Opposition. A piecemeal method adopted in regard to the tariff could not be resorted to again. It required t) be dealt with and disposed of as a whole. It could not stand alone and must bo accompanied by a Bonus Bill., which was its natural complement. Received 10.13 p.m., Jan. 29. BERLIN, Jan. 29. The Reiden mine is the property of the Government. Fire damp caused the explosion at a depth of 2300 feet. It is feared that the rest of those entombed have been suffocated. A fire is now raging, rendering rescue work almost' impossible. A second explosion has occurred. M. Fallieries telegraphed to the Kaiser, condoling with the sufferers by the terrible disaster. HONG KONG, Jan. 29. Six British warships rescued 150 boatmen at Hong Kong. LONDON, Jan. 29.

The police evidence at the Whiteley inquest clearly pointed to blackmail. George Rayner states that he has grave reason to doubt that be was the father of Horace, but he had kept his promise to Horace’s mother to educate and bring up the child. Received 11.9 p.m., Jan. 29. SYDNEY, Jan. 29. Tho Railway Commissioners ap pointed are : Mr. Johnson, Chief Commissioner, and Messrs. Kirkcaldie and Richardson, assistant Commissioneis, Mr. P. R, Johnson is assistant engineer to the Great Northern Railway Company, England. He has been 35 years in the service of the Company and lias a wide experience. Mr. Kirkcaldie is a member of the present Commissioners. Mr. Richardson occupies the position of Superintendent of Lines in the State service. Received 11.17 p.m., Jan. 29. SYDNEY, Jan. 29. The annual conference of the Australian Workers’ Union meets on Thursday. There are 908 recommendations on the agenda paper. The principal is that the Federal Arbitration Court be invoked to award 25s per hundred sheep throughout the Commonwealth, working hours to he fixed at 44 weekly. A man has died of plague at Kempsey.

NEWCASTLE, Jan. 29. Sailed, Kate Tatham, for Napier. MELBOURNE, Jan. 29. Solution has been allotted top weight in the Newmarket, 9.12, Cuneiform 9.5, Menschikoff 9.0, Capt. Shannon 7.2. For the Australian Cup May King has top weight, 9.7, Solution 8.12, and Putty 7.12. Received 1.13 a.m., Jan. 30. SYDNEY, Jan. 29. Willis has been acquitted on a charge of false pretences in connection with the land cases. The Labor Convention has adopted the following fighting platform:— State bank, graduated land tax, free education, Technical Secondary Universary, to bo available on the Bursary system, State pensions to persons over 60 and invalids, Pure Food Bill, Zone system of railway fares and freights, full civil and political rights to State and municipal employees, workers’ compensation for accidents. BRISBANE, Jan. 29. A search steamer lias returned. She reports that -the ketch Pilot was lost with all hands, including Mr. Hargreaves, a member of the State Parliament, Captain Osterlund', harbormaster, and five of a crew. Two widows and fourteen children are unprovided for. The vessel was lost off Capo Flattery during a cyclone. At a meeting of New Zealanders it was resolved to have Essex Evans’ poem in tribute to the late Mr. Sedden engrossed and forwarded to Mrs. Stddon.

RUSSIA AND MANCHURIA. PEKIN, Jail. 28. It is officially announce! at Pekin that Russia has notified that the evacuation of ■ Northern Manchuria will take place immediately instead of on April 15. Twenty thousand troops will be withdrawn, leaving ouly a railway guard. ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 2fi It is stated at St. Petersburg that the withdrawal is due to the Cz ir*s desire to be free from foreign compli cations in the present conditions of uome affairs

ODESSA DISASTER. 270 PEOPLE FROZEN TO DEATH. St. PETERSBURG, Jan 2Two hundred and seventy persons have been frozen to death at Odessa. A BABY’S ADVENTURE. STOLEN BY BLACKS. Four years .ago a child 2J years old was lost from her parents’ home at Louth. All efforts to trace her were unavailing. Recently news was circulated of a little white girl being seen in somo blacks’ camp at Dalby, Queensland. The police recovered the child. A photograph was taken and sent to the mother. She is satisfied it is her daughter. TERRIBLE EXPLOSIONS. ENTOMBING OF 425 MINERS. BERLIN, Jan. 28. By an explosion in the Redon colliery, Rhenish Prussia, 425 miners have been entombed. One hundred and sixty-four corpses have been recovered, together with seventeen miners badly injured. PARIS, Jan. 28. By an explosion of firedamp at Lieven colliery, Pas -de Calais, several men were killed. STORM DISASTER. ONE HUNDRED PEOPLE DROWNED. HONG KONG, Jan. 28. A terrific rainstorm, lasting ten "dilutes, at Hong Kong swamped fifty native cf-Mt. 9uo hundred people were drowned.

GERMAN ELECTIONS. . LONDON, Jan. 28. Tho Times says that although the rout of tho Socialists was a remarkable personal victory for Prince Bulow and the Kaiser, yet on tho whole the parties of the order of constitutionnl progress and reform emerge from the struggle a good deal strongor than may prove agreeablo to the Government. Although tlio Reds wero defeated, the clorical Blacks will probably return stronger than boforo BERLIN, Jan. 28. The Germania, a Clerical organ, predicts that tlio Centre is still the strongest party in Parliament, and is able to play a decisive part. The Vossischo Zeitung declares revision of the lolationsliip between the Crown and the nation is indispensable. The best pledge for future permanence of the Empire lies in tlio emphasising of its constitutional character.

JAMAICA DISASTER. LONDON, Jan. 28. Sir J. A. Swcttenliam lias sent Lord Elgin a long despatch. It is understood ho was not aware that the Colonial Secretary and Inspector of Police bad requested the American Admiral to land a force to quell mutiny. KINGSTON, Jan. 28. Rates and taxes in Kingston are to hi remitted for the next fifteen months. AUSTRALIAN ANNIVERSARY. BANQUET SPEECHES. Received 10.2 p.m., Jan. 29. LONDON, .lan 2P. An Australian Anniversary Day banquet was held at the ’Jrocadero, 190 being present, including the Lord Mayor, Sir Montague Nelson, Mr. W. r. Reeves, and many representative meichants, bankers, and shipowners. Lord Tennyson, presiding, proposed “The Day we Celebrate,” He read messages from Messrs. A. Deakin, and T. Bent. Each was received with applause. Lord Tennyson strongly advocated the immigration of carefully selected British men and women, who would greatly strengthen the Commonwealth.

Lord Tennyson continuing, said he hoped the Conference would consider the establishment of a co-operative sjstem of colonial defence throughout tho Empire, and the organisation of an Intelligence Committee. He hoped tho Australian representatives would submit a carefully considered scheme of preferential tariffs in favor of British commodities, with a lead up to ii'terimperial free trade He hoped that Sir H. Campbell Banuerman would open the Conference and show that it was not only colonial but Impeiial.

Sir J. A. Cockburn proposed the Imperial Government;. Lord Elgin, replying, said they had tho greatest difficulties in bringing about unity of sentiment. Between the Governments of the colonies and the Motherland there was a want of acquaintance, therefore he would appreciate nothing more than the forming of an acquaintance with the leaders of the colonial Parliaments at the Conference. "While he was preparing a programme it would obviously be improper for him to express opinions on Lord Tennyson’s suggestions. He would cordially welcome Sir H. Campbell Bamicrman’s opening of the C'o-i----fe: ence. Lord Brassey proposed the “Imperial Forces.” Admiral Bowden Smith and Generai Hutton replied. The latter advocated the establishit tut in the Motherland of a militia similar to that of Canada and Australia,

CEREBRO SPINAL MENINGITIS. 72 CASES AT BELFAST. Received 10.13 p.m., Jan. 29. LONDON, Jaa. 29. There are 72 oases of cerebro\spin-il meningitis at Belfast, and great alarm has been occasioned. ,