CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 1993, 31 January 1907, Page 2

CABLES.

jrrtHSS ASSOCIATION —COPYKIGIIT. LONDON, .Jan. 29. Sir J. A. Swettcnliam, Govornor oi Jamaica, reports that Mouton Point headland has sunk, and is dangerous to navigation. Germany has demanded the punishment of Jehim Pasha, chief of the secret police at the Yildiz, for extortion and seizure of a cargo of timber aboard a British ship, destined for Hamburg. The Britisli Embassy supports tho demand. George Raynor. solicitor, explained that AVhileloy knew two sisters, Em ily and Louisa Turner Raynor visited Emily, but ho doubted tiiat ho was the father of her son, though ho agreed to pay for his up-bringing. Tho Archbishop of Canterbury, addressing the Diocesan Education Society at Ramsgate, stated that if the Government began afresh on a simpler plan, with a genuine desire to meet tho difficulties shown in recent debates, the prospects of success were not inconsiderable. It would bo deplorable if the Government repudiated the virtual bargain made in 1870 that denominational teaching be maintained in schools which the Church built at a cost of £25,000,000. JOHANNESBURG, Jan. 29. The Star, Johannesburg, says Mr. Smuts will visit' London in 1907. It is intended to bargain with mining houses in connection with compensation to be paid as a set-off for noninterference with tho mining industry. The capitalists havo refused overtures on tho subject. CALCUTTA, Jan. 29. The Ameer of Afghanistan has readied Calcutta.

NEW YORK, Jan. 29. The United States Interstate Commerce Commission severely condemn tho Standard Oil Trust’s deliberate attempts to ruin competitors. Negotiations between tho German and' American Commissioners are likely to avert a tariff war, and result in a modus vivendi, pending the conclusion of a reciprocity treaty. PIETERMARITZBURG, Jan. 29. Dinizulu’s half-brother, Cetawayo’s youngest son, has been appointed chief of two tribes of Zululand. BERLIN, Jan. 29. Prince Billow’s organ lias ceased its attacks on the Centre, whose attitude towards the National Liberals is likely to prove the mainspring of the second ballots. SYDNEY, Jan. 30. The plague outbreak is more active than formerly, occurring in three forms, bubonic, septicnemic, and pneumonic. MELBOURNE, Jan. 30.

Mr. Deakin states the Government are unlikely to submit a list of measures when Parliament meets. Defence and immigration proposals will be submitted in collection with the Budget statement. Dr. Paterson’s funeral was representatively attended. Mr. Deakin, condoling witli the family, regretted that a Cabinet meeting prevented attendance at the funeral. At the half-yearly meeting of the Victoria Insurance Company, a profit of £22,900 was disclosed. An interim diviend of 2s a share was declared and £13,921 carried forward. The chairman said the losses were heavier than usual during the halfyear. This was principally owing to matters in New Zealand, where the insurance business had not been profitable.

COMMERCIAL. LONDON, Jau. 29. At the wool sales there was a spirited sale for low crossbreds, which are recovering slightly. Eleven thousand bushels of New South Wales February to March wheat sold at 30s lid; 11,000 bushels of South Australian February shipment at 30s. Tin, spot, is at 191, three months 191.7}, Silver is at 31^d. Received 5.5 p.m., Jan. 30. LONDON, Jan. 30. Merinos aro very firm. Crossbreds are unchanged. Tlio quantify of wheat and flour afloat for t-lie United Kingdom is 2,130,000 quarters; for the Continent, 1,045,000; Atlantic shipments, 246,000; Pacific, 15,000. Bank shares: Australasia, 101 tb 103; Ijew South Wales, 48 to 50; New Zealand, 10} to 10$. AFRICAN EXPLORATION. CAIRO, Jan. 29.

I.ieut. Boyd Alexander has traversed Africa from the mouth of the Niger river to Port Soudan. Much information as to navigable waterways connecting the Congo basin with Nigeria was obtained. During the journey his brother, Captain Claud Alexander, and Captain Gosling died from fever. REDIN EXPLOSION. BERLIN, Jan. 29. Great devastation was caused at Redin. Many were mangled by the force of the explosion. An outbreak of fire in the workings imperils 300 miners who are sti.i imprisoned. Poisonous fumes frustrate desperate attempts to rescue them. It is feared a party of rescuers have perished. AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA. ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 29. The official Duma returns from 451 communes in a score of provinces show that the peasants chose out of f>o3 delegates 206 who belong to the Right, which represents the Monarchists, and 631 Moderates, and 7 1 belonging to the Loft. Apparently two-thirds of the peasants oppose and one-third favor compulsory expropriation of land.

Anarchists at Odessa unsuccessfully attempted to raid the bank of Russia Brothers. One of the latter and a customer were killed. One Anarchist was shot. Others escaped. Two-thirds of the workmen at Moscow chose social democrats. FRANCE AND VATICAN. M UTUAL ARRANGEMENT. Received 9.31 p.m., Jan. 30. ROME, Jan. 30. The Pope has approved of the decision of the French Bishops who are willing to accept the form of contract admitted by the civil code between Bishops or Cures and Prefects or Mayors ,whereby Churches remain at the clergy’s disposal for purposes of worship The Bishops insist that the civil authorities of all dioceses concur The Vatican declares that' this is proof of the Church’s willingness to submit to the harshest conditions provided its principals are respected.

BRITISH TRADE. FISCAL THEORIES. Received 9.48 p.in., Jan. 30. LONDON, Jan. 30. Mr. Lloyd George informed the Walsall Chamber of Commerce members that the Government were conducting a searching investigation into the industries of foreign countries, especially Germany, and improving the commercial intelligence department. The Board of Trade and Consular Service census of industrial production would reveal our true national position, whether going backward or forward If the facts smashed his fiscal theories tho sooner it. came the better. The Government) intended to revise tho patent laws, compelling foreigners possessing British protection to work their patents here.

AMERICAN TRUSTS. A SENSATION AT THE GRIDIRON CLUB. ANGRY SPEECHES. Received 10.55 p.m., Jan. 30. NEW YORK, Jan. 30. President Roosevelt attended the annual dinner of tho Gridiron Club, an association at Washington oi correspondent's of the principal Ainencan liowspapers. Senator Foraker, in a violent, offensive speech, attacked President Roosevelt for prophesying that a policy against the great corporations would cause disaster t'o tho countiy. President Roosevelt, in an reply, warned Morgan, Rogers, and other representatives of trusts that if they wero unwilling lb accept the action of a Government which was ready to protect rich and poor alike tho time would come when they would find themselves face to lace with a people believing they had been deprived of their rights, and a mob which would not iin the least respect tlieir riches. A groat sensation was produced.

A FATAL SURPRISE. GOVERNOR OF CARACAS AND SOLDIERS KILLED. Received 9.34 p.m., Jan. 30. CARACAS, Jan. 30. While trying to surprise a secret political meeting at the residence of General Gomez, Vice-President of Venezuela, General Mata, Govornor ol Caracas, and several soldiers were killed. Many were wounded. PLIGHT OF UNEMPLOYED. APPEAL TO SOUTH AFRICAN MAGNATE. Received 9.34 p.m., Jau. 30. JOHANNESBURG, Jan. 30. A mass meeting of Johannesburg unemployed petitioned J. B. Robinson to relieve them of the misery that was fast driving them to ruin and despair. The Government were memorialised to expatriate the unemployed.

JAMAICA INCIDENT. THE GOVERNOR APOLOGISES. Received 10.55 p.m., Jan. 30. LONDON, Jan. 30. Reuter’s Washington correspondent states that Sir J. A. Swettenham has withdrawn his letter to Admiral Davis, and expressed his regret. The incident is considered closed. STRIKE ON SONOMA. FIREMEN WALK OFF WHEN VESSEL ABOUT TO SAIL. Received 11.10 p.m., Jan. 30. SYDNEY, Jan. 30. Trouble arose with the crew of the Sonoma, preventing her departure to-day. The Agents’ story is that the firemen wished that four natives shipped at Honolulu to fill deserters’ berths should bo ousted to make room for four men originally belonging to the V entura. The men’s version is that they are quite willing to work with, natives, but that a vacancy which occurred in the stokehold was filled by a Sydney man who is not a member of their Union, when it could have been filled by a Ventura man Therefore they walked ashore when the vessel was on the point of sailing The crew sided with the firemen. Forty-nine have boon arrested for disobedience of orders.

AN EARTHQUAKE EXPERIENCE AT LITHGOW. Received 11.10 p.m., Jan. 30. SYDNEY, Jan. 30. A heavy shock of earthquake occurred at Lithgow at seven to-night. A resident who lias had experience in New Zealand, said it was the heaviest he had ever felt. LORDS AND COMMONERS. Received 10.57 p.m., Jan. 30. LONDON, Jan. 30. Earl Crewe, speaking at Tiverton, said that tho Government would never admit the House of Lords’ claim to force a dissolution. The Representative House must have the last word.

THE EDALJI CASE STILL UNDER CONSIDERATION. Received 1.20 a.m., Jail. 31. LONDON, Jail. 30. Mr. Herbert Gladstone (tho Home Secretary) states that he is minutely examining the Edalji case. Previous cablegrams stated that ‘•Mr.Gladstoue has declined to take outside opinion with respect to the case of Edaliji, the Birmingham solicitor, who is alleged to have been wrongly sentenced to penal servitude in 1903 in connection with the cat-tle-maiming outrages at Great Wyrloy, in Staffordshire. Public meetings are being arranged in support of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s proposal for an inquiry into the case. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, in a 15-column article in tho Daily Telegraph recently, analysed the ovidenco on which Edalji was convicted, and urged that an inquiry should be bold. He then had an interview with Mr. Gladstone, and afterwards spoke hopefully of the prospect of the case being re-opened.”

* LABOR CONFERENCE. LAND PROPOSALS. Received 1.20 a.m., Jan. 31. SYDNEY, Jan. 30. The Labor Conference is discussing the land policy on suggestions drafted by committee. The principal point's are immediate cessation of Crown lands sales; in the allotment ri Crown lands no person entitled to acquire more than a living area ; every Australian citizen not already holding land to the value of £‘soo to have a preferential right to acquire land to that value, preference to bo given first to persons holding no lands, second to small holders requiring additional holdings. Holders to he entitled to a remission of the first five years’ rent, conditional on efi'oeting improvements to that amount. Re-appraisement to bo on tho basis of once every 20 years. Graduated land tax on estates over the value of £SOOO on an unimproved basis, increasing by a half-penny for each £SOOO over that exemption. Compulsory resumption of private lands lor closer settlement, plus 10 per cent, on land tax valuation, with value of improvements at the time of resumption. Advances for improvements and holdings up to t'wotliirds of the value of tho improvements. Provision for working men’s blocks in contros of population. Provision to prevent speculators monopolising business and residence allotments in tbwn and villages.

BRITISH GOVERNMENT. Received 1.20 a.m., Jan. 31. LONDON, Jan. 30. Mr. Ruiiciman lias succeeded Mr. McKenna; Mr. McNamara has replaced Mr. Runcimnn ; Mr. Hobliouse lias replaced Mr. Ellis, Under-Secre-tary for India, who has resigned.

TARIFF preference. Received 1.20 a.m.. Jan. 31. OTTAWA, Jan. 30. Correspondence between Canada and Australia on tariff has been laid on the table of the Dominion House of Commons.