CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2002, 11 February 1907, Page 2

CABLES.

VKESS ASSOCIATION COPYRIGHT. BUNDABERG, Feb. 9. The fire destroyed 42,000 gallons of spirits. Tho total damage is between £3OOO and £4OOO. MELBOURNE, Feb. 9. The Mediterranean fly has been discovered in an orchard at Bendigo. The outbreak is attributed to the use of refuse bananas to fertilise the soil. The forthcoming Inter-State Trade Union Congress discusses amongst other questions a proposal to make 44 hours a week’s work general throughout tho Commonwealth. The Age states that there is trouble between the Standard Oil Trust and the Customs department. The Federal law requires that oil cases shall be marked 150 degrees fire test, and that the oil must stand a heat up to 150 degrees Fahrenheit before it ignites. This provision the Trust seeks to defy. The newspaper states that "certain definitely marked shipments have been made in i deliberate defiance of the Federal law, and will not be allowed to land until brought into conformity with the law. SYDNEY, Feb. 9. Another case of plague has occurred in the infected area. The Institute of Marine Engineers entertained Air Hislop, the New. Zealand representative at the Imperial Navigation Conference. The Labor Council have obtained information that the natives of Fiji are compelled to work on the public roads on an inadequate wage and semi-starvation diet. The Federal Labor party’s delegates to the Navigation Conference will be asked to ventilate the matter in London. ADELAIDE, Feb. 9. The Mayor entertained Sir Joseph Ward. A largo number of prominent citizens were present. PERTH, Feb. 9. Lieut. C. M. Poote, of the warship Encounter, was tried by court-mar-tial on charges of desertion and embezzlement of canteen funds, of which he was tbe president, the amount involved being £92. Ho was found guilty of desertion and fraudulent conversion and sentenced to six months’ hard labor, and ordered to be. dismissed from the service in disgrace.

TRANSVAAL ELECTIONS CAPETOWN, Feb. 8. The Transvaal election campaign i. developing on racial lines. Although Air. Smuts and other leaders veil their national aspirations, others, including ex-generals, are delivering addresses in the back Veldt districts, avowing they will get rid of the Chinest first, and then the British workmen. The predicants of the Dutch Church are preaching deliverance for the Boer Israel. Air. Smuts insists that the mining industry must be excluded from Parliament, declaring that it' .is not a Chamber of Alines, but the people must rule. '

PORT ARTHUR. ERECTION OF MONUMENTS. Received 4.55 p.m., Feb. 10. TOKIO, Feb. 9. The Japanese are erecting two monuments at Port Arthur, one to the memory of the Russians and the other to the memory of the Japanese killed during the siege. The Russian chapel adjoins the Russian monument. ASSASSINATION IN RUSSIA. YOUTH KILLS THREE PEOPLE AND COAIAIITS SUICIDE.

Received -4.55 p.m., Feb. 10. ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 9. Al. Alexandrovski, the Governor of Pensa, Eastern Russia, was leaving the theatre in company with the Assistant Chief of Police, 'when a youth armed with a revolver fired, killing both. The assassin then rushed into the theatre, where he shot at the manager, who was trying to arrest him. The bullet missed the manager, but killed a policeman. The assassin next sought refuge in the cloak-room. The attendant there locked the door. The assassin, finding himself trapped, committed suicide. The bullets used had been poisoned with cyanide of potassium. Revolutionaries had condemned Alexandrovski, who ivas formerly a commissioner of the Red Cross Society, on the grounds that his mismanagement and corruption caused deaths innumerable of wounded soldiers. GERMAN ELECTIONS. ACTIVITY OF THE NAVY LEAGUE. Received 4.55 p.m., Feb. 10. BERLIN, Feb. 9. 1 A Bavarian newspaper has published correspondence showing the activity of the German Navy League during the recent elections. Prince Bulow contributed fifteen hundred pounds towards * the fund raised by the League. The money was utilised for circulating leaflets against the Centre.

THE THAW TRAGEDY. THE WIFE’S EVIDENCE. Received 4.55 p.m., Feb. 10. NEW YORK, Feb. 9. The examination of Mrs. Thaw was resumed to-day. She testified that White plotted with tlio notorious lawyer, Abe Hummel, to induce her to break off with Thaw by a lawsuit ior breach of promise. Hummel tbld her about many acts of niis.conduct by Thaw. She partly believed him. She allowed White to pay for her education. After her marriage White made many' attempts to renew the acquaintance. Documentary evidence produced showed that Thaw was wildly incensed, and was like a manaic for months preceding the tragedy.

BRITISH POLITICS. MR. LLOYD GEORGE’S VISIT TO IRELAND. LONDON, Feb. 8. Mr. Lyttelton, speaking at Guildford, Surrey, said the fact of Mr, Winston Churchill welcoming colonial preference removed every objection in principle to preference between the Motherland and the colonics. The matter was merely one of machinery and adjustment. The ’Westminster Gazette declares that tho Liberals only welcome preference being conceded to the Motlioiland as evidence of the colonies’ goodwill and advance towards freetrade. Mi. Lawson Walton, speaking at Leeds, said the House of Lords must go down before tho rising tide. Tho Government would give effect to tho people’s will by submitting bills which the Lords reject, and were loading a combination of tho Crown and people against the aristocracy. Received 4.55 p.m., Feb. 10. LONDON, Feb. 9. Mr. Lloyd George, addressing a meeting of 4000 Liberals and Rus- - sellites at Ulster Hall, Belfast, declared that he himself was a prolomid believer in the principle ' of soil-government, hut in any scheme introduced by the present Government tho supremacy of the Imperial aiiiament would be maintained. Separation between Ireland and Britain was unthinkable. Self-goverm inent meant' strengthening the bonds, the only real bond being contentment. Mr. Lloyd George’ s was tho first visit paid by a Liberal Minister to Belfast since 1885. Extraordinary precautions were taken to prevent threatened disturbances, but the demonstration in lienor of tho visit was of an crdorly character Orangemen and Unionists generally holding aloof,

TORPEDO-BOAT DISASTER. BOILER EXPLODES AND NINE MEN KILLED. Received 4.55 p.m., Feb. 10. PARIS, Fob. 9. Tlio French torpedo-boat L’Oriout with members of tho supervising commission aboard, was undergoing finishing speed trials, when a terrific boiler explosion occurred, accompanied by a rush of flames. Nino out of eleven engineers, artificers, and sailors in tho engineroom were killed. Tho bodies were frightfully burned. ROCKEFELLER’S GIFTS. RESENTMENT TOWARDS THE MONEY POWER. Received 4.55 p.m., Feb. 10. NEW YORK, Feb. 9. Rockefeller’s gifts to the United States Educational Board total eighteen million pounds. It is believed that ho has also given six million pounds in addition anonymously. LONDON, Feb. 9. The Now York correspondent of tho Times reports that tho deep and growing resentment in America towards tho money power is illustrated by the coldness of tho newspapers’ comments on Rockefeller’s gift to the Education Board. Expressions of enthusiasm or gratitude are almost absont.

RUEENSLAND POLITICS. GOVERNMENT POLICY. Received 1.5 a.m., Fob. 11. BRISBANE, Feb. 10. Mr. Kidston delivered his policy speech at Rockhampton, Referring to Mr. Denham’s resignation ho said tha~ on his return from New Zealand ho found Mr. Donham’s idea of the .political situation was that the Government should coalesce with tho Pliilp party. That proposal, if agreed to, would mean that while ho would be graciously permitted to remain Premier ho would have had to remove from tho Cabinet three or four Ministers who had been perfectly loyal, a mean betrayal by Government of a large number of men who had supported them in the last Parliament. Ho had informed Mr. Denham that he could not seriously entertain tho proposal. Mr. Kidston, continuing, said that tho Government proposed to exempt incomes up to £2OO from taxation. They meant to make available under a compulsory purchase Act wherever suitable land was found to bo adjacant to railways. -They would initiate a bold, liberal, immigration scheme, and endeavor to arrange passages from three to five pounds per head, in order to compete with Canada. Government were also considering offering those who pay their own passages a free grant of 160 acres. Steps woidd be taken to co-ordinate the Savings Bank with the Agricultural Bank. THE PLAGUE. Received 12.59 a.m., Feb. 11. SYDNEY, Fob. 10. Two young children have been plague-stricken and one has died. The source is somewhat uncertain.