CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2003, 12 February 1907, Page 2

CABLES.

l-HESS ASSOCIATION—COPYBIOIIT. LONDON, Feb. 10. The Gorman concession scheme for practical control of Mateira has been revised. The Britishers appealed to Sir Edward Grey, Foreign Secretary, whoso reply is believed to echo Lord Lansdowne’s protests of resolute resistance. Mr. Lawson AValton, AttorneyGeneral, in a speech at South Leeds, said Laboritos wore most useful in advancing reform, hut the socialistic ideal weakened the usefulness of the party. At Rugby football Ireland defeated England by 17 points to 9. A half-mile long procession of women suffragists marched from Hyde Park to Trafalgar Square, headed by several bands. Many motors and broughams, labelled “AV.S.,” accompanied them. Mrs. Fawcett, Mrs. Patrick Campbell, Lady Frances Balfour, the daughter of the Duke of Argylo, Lady Cecilia Roberts, the daughter of the Earl of Carlisle, and other aristocrats were present, some carrying banners.

lying Edward and Queen Alexandra crossed from Calais to Dover without incident, desiiite an anarchist scare. Special precautions wore taken at the Garo du Nord. It* is authoritatively stated that Mr. Chamberlain is progressing favorably, but will not return to the House of Commons before Easter. The Home Office is appointing a committee to inquire into the Edalji liorso-maiming case, following after the precedent) created in the Beck case. NEAV YORK, Feb. 10. Mr. Cortesse, Magistrate at Paterson, New' Jersey, was blown to pieces in opening an infernal machine sent to him through the post. His son was seriously injured. Mr. Cortesse recently assisted in the capture of foreign lawbreakers.

BERLIN, Feb. 9. A Bavarian newspaper has published corrcsjiondence 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 wms utilised for circulating leaflets against the Centre. BERLIN, Feh. 10. The Kaiser is expelling aliens, chiefly Russian students, who assisted the Socialist candidates at the recent elections. CAPETOWN, Feh. 10. One hundred and forty-one candidates have been nominated for the Transvaal seats. Polling takes pilace on the 20tli. PEKIN, Feb. 10. The * Canton-ICau-ling railway agreement, particulars of which w’ere cabled on November 12th, has been ratified. British capital and British engineers alone w'ill be employed in the work. BRISBANE, Feb. 11. The population of Queensland on December 31st was 535,110, of w'hom 292,000 were males. SYDNEY, Feb. 11.

The Australasian Institute of Marine Engineers presented (the chief engineer of the steamer Rangatira with the Institute’s gold emblem in recognition of the efforts of the engine room staff to repair the disabled steamer on her recent breakdown. Both Towns and Durnau . are actively training on the Nepean river, The Canadian gets great pace out of his boat without apparent effort. MELBOURNE, Feb. 11.

A referendum, taken in the recent election to decide whether the elections of the Senate should be held before July instead of before January, resulted in the alteration being agreed to by nearly a five to one majority. The response to a circular in respeet to the building of torpedo boats in Australia is unfavorable to the scheme, princijially on the ground that it would not pay to lay down a plant under present conditions. Mr. Chapman states that Sir Joseph A\ 7 ard intends to * bring penny postage before the Imperial Conference.

PERTH, Feb. 11. During the past three months the authorities condemned 200,000 tins o'-' inrported salmon as unfit for human consumption. Received 11.15 71.111. Feb. 11. LONDON, Feb. 11. Obituaries: Countess of Cadogan and AA’illiam Henry Russell, war correspondent. The music hall strike comiiromise has failed, and the strike is increasing in severity. Mr. Gibson Bowles .assorts that Sir Acland * Hood » ]>ro]>orcs that the Kingslynn Free Food Association should bo re-united as a Conservative Association 011 the basis of exclusion of additional taxation of food from future Conservatives candidates’ programme. Received 11.46 p.m. Feb. 11. NEAV YORK, Feb. 11. Mr. Rockefeller wishes the General Education Board to establish colleges in all cities of 100,000 inhabitants. He exiiects that three to five times his subsidy will be locally contributed. He is willing to increase his effort.

Lady Tennessee Cook, endeavoring to secure the introduction of a AVoman’s Suffrage Bill in Congress, interviewed President Roosevelt, who doubted if votes had much benefited women. AATien convinced to the contrary, he would try the advance movement. PRETORIA, Feb. 11. Fitzqiatrick, at Pretoria, stated that the Hetvolk recently offered, if caiiitalists would consent to a loan of ten millions’ compensation for war losses, and to give Boers control of education, the Hetvolk would consent to the formation of a capitalist party with the Boers’ co-operation. They would also supxiort Chinese labor. BERLIN, Feb. 11. Prince Billow’s organ denies that tbo Navy League used Government funds for election purposes. Many newspapers are indignant that a League which is professedly nonpolitical should interfere in elections so flagrantly.

Received 12.54 a.m. Feb. 12. SYDNEY, Fob. 11. A cable received at the Observatory reports jj, severe hurricane at New Caledonia on Saturday and Sunday, the barometer reading 29.07. No damage is reported. The matron of the Kempsey Hospital has died of plague. BAND OF CRIMINALS. ARRESTED AFTER COMMITTING 1000 OUTRAGES. Received 11.46 p.m. Feb. 11. PARIS, Feb. 11. The French police arrested fortyfive criminals who had terrorised Northern France for 2 years, committing a thousand outrages. MURDERS IN RUSS|A. MEN KILLED IN CHURCH. Received 11.46 p.m. Feb. 11. ST. PETERSBURG, Fob. 11. A band of terrorists brought two men to a Church at Slavkof; bound thorn, and forced them to kneel. Then they killed them, firing rifles at their backs. The murderers escaped. It is alleged tlio victims betrayed party secrets. It is believed that Ponsa, Alcxandvorki’s assassin, is a Jewish sailor who murdered General Pavlofen,

A BIG BURGLARY. Rccoived 11.15 p.m. Feb. 11. LONDON, Fob. 11. Burglars removed a safe from a room where Myers, an East End octogenarian, was asleep. They forced it 071011 and stole £64,000, including one thousand New South AVales Government bonds. BRITISH POLITICS. Received 11.32 p.m. Feb. 11. LONDON, Feb. 11. Mr. AA’alton explains that his remarks on the House of Lords, cabled 011 the Bth, were personal, unpremeditated, and not intended to bo reported. He regrets that he unhappily used language lending itself to startling head lines. Mr. Churchill, explaining his Leeds S7ieech, states that no free trader would consent to purchase free trade within the Empire at the cost of a protective tariff around the United Kingdom. If highly protectionist colonies made reciprocal arrangements with each other, the United Kingdom would benefit under the most favored nation principle.

NEW YORK TRAGEDY. MRS. THAAV’S EA 7 IDENCE. Received 9.37 p.m., Feb. 11. NEAV YORK, Feb. 11. The wife’s terrible story caused a great revulsion of public feeling in Thaw’s favor. The defence intend to renew their effort to secure the admission of Thaw’s extraordinary • will, which bequeaths £15,000 for the maintenance of six girls whom Thaw alleges AA’hit'e ruined. It also provides £IO,OOO for the prosecution of the man who might cause himself to he assassinated. The bulk of the property he left to his wife.