CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2006, 15 February 1907, Page 2

CABLES.

i-iIESS ASSOCIATION COrXKIOIIT. SYDNEY, February 14. A plumber, who was engaged on work in tho plague area, has been stricken. A man named Leith, a New Zealander, living apart,, from his wife, entered her motliw’s rosiddnee at Petersham, last night. After a quarrel with an old man named Mcdhurst, ho drow a revolver and shot Mod hurst dead. Then, placing the revolver to his own temple, he killed himself. MELBOURNE, Feb. 14.

A provisional agreement lias been arrived at between tho Federal Government and the Government ol South Australia to transfer the control of the Northern Territory to the Federation. Tho transfer is said to he conditional on the Transcontinental railway being completed, and the adoption of a policy oi development. ~ Ah You has been arrested at Lastleuiaine for murder. BRISBANE, February 14. A death at Ipswich was due to plague. Melbourne, Feb. u. During the past half-year the Broken Hill Proprietary mine earned a gross profit of £345,621, and net profit of £314,284. Received 12.58 a.m. Fob. 10. SYDNEY, Feb. 14. Arrived, River Boyne, from New Zotiltllljt . 1 A MELBOURNE, Feb. 14.

An amalgamation of the Ministerialist and third party in the State Parliament has been arranged, ihe leaders of both sides drafted a common policy which Mr Bent announces o:i Saturday. NEWCASTLE, Fob. 14. Sailed, Kamona, for New Zealand. Received 12.58 a.m. Feb. 15. SYDNEY, Feb. 14.

Before the Full Court, Crick was called on to show cause why he should not be struck off tho rolls. The case was adjourned until the Attorney-General had decided whether he intended to take further criminal proceedings against Crick.

BRITISH POLITICS. IMPERIAL- PARLIAMENT. LONDON, Feb. 13. Mr. Churchill sketched tho New Hebrides negotiations. He declared the best possible bargain had been made. He was quite certain colonial interests had not suffered. When the convention was sent to the colonies no ultimatum was presented. The Government only wished them to know that the agreement was made after '■wrestling months with the French delegates in their attempts to obtain further concessions. He defended the indentured labor regulations as excellent', defensible at every point of view, and constituting a great undeniable advance towards a humane system of labor, in contrast to the state of anarchy they replaced. The convention did not prevent a kanaka working on any island after the termination of liis contract. He twitted Mr. Balfour with rambling off into Antipodean archipelagoes only to discover a homely mare’s nest.

Mr. Lyttelton said the Government, in sanctioning the labor conditions with the New Hebrides, had done wliat they denounced the late Government for doing in the Transvaal. The debate was adjourned. The Times says the Governpent deliberately ignored the Imperial Conference, involving the most vital interests of the Empire. Such contemptuous indifference was strange on tho part of those affecting to believe that sentiment was the only possible bond of Imperial unity. Sir H. C. Bannerman ought to have been aware that the 1597 conference was not pre-arranged when Parliament was not sitting, and only arose incidentally out of tlio presence of the colonial Premiers atl the Diamond Jubileo celebrations. Mr. Chamberlain only suggested the 1902 conference a week after Parliament assembled, and the King’s prorogation speech adequately recognised its Imperial significance. It is generally inferred from Sir H. C. Bannerman’s speech that) the Government seek to diminish the constitutional powers of the House of Lords, and not to attempt reconstructive reform.

The Freeman’s Journal says the Premier’s language may mean much or very little. Irish people expect not so much improvement in the features of the present system as a radical change. Received 10.50 p.m. Fob. 14. LONDON, Feb. 14.

Sir Edward Grey resumed the debate on the Address-in-Reply. The New Hebrides Convention, he said, contemplated subsequent modification as the result of experience. It was a great improvement on the previous state of things. They must remember that the proportion of French settlers was two-thirds to the British one-third. Sincey it was impossible to secure exclusive British possession, the best' -possible bargain was made. If partition were mooted it was by no means certain we would get tho best of the bargain at 1 a time when British interests were unduly depressed in the New Hebrides by high protective duties imposed by the colonies, while the French were gi anted more‘liberal treatment. The fear of outside complications induced Britain to propose a joint protectorate, continuing negotiations at leisure, but France declined. For good reasons, therefore, the best course was to ratify tho convention, deferring further amendment until later. Sir Edward Grey declared that it would have been criminal bad they not regulated labor. A step forward had been taken, but the working of the system must be carefully watched, and if abuses were discovered, Franco would be approached with a view to amendments.

WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE. RIOTOUS BEHAVIOUR AND EXCITING SCENES. Received 10.34 p.m. Feb. 14. LONDON, Fob. 14. The great Women’s Convention at Caxton ITall, Westminster, expressed profound indignation that there was no allusion in the King’s speech to women’s suffrage. They demanded that the House of Commons give pieoedenee to the question. Eight hundred suffragists, headed by Mistress Despard, marched to the House of Commons to present the resolution to the Prime Minister, Sir H. Campbell Bannerman, and singing “Glory, hallelujah.” The police tried to disperse tho procession at Westminster Abbey, but the bulk of the suffragettes contrived to reach the entrance to Parliament, end elamoursly demanded to sec Sir H. Campbell Bannerman. After much uproar and many skirmishes with the police, fifty-six women, including Despard, Cliristanbel, Sylvia, and Pcrkhiirst were arrested. A dozen who forced an entrance to the central lobby were carried out 1 , despite fierce resistance. During the struggle outside, mounted police nearly rode down several.

BATTLESHIPS COLLIDE. Received 10.34 p.m. Feb. 14. GIBRALTAR, Feb. 14. The battleships Albermarle and Commonwealth collided 150 * miles north of Lisbon. They have proceeded to Gibraltar for repairs. There were no fatalities.

TWO SHIPWRECKS. TERRIBLE SCENES ON THE LARCHMONT. NEW YORK, Fob. 13. Amid a scene of terror, ns the Larchmont sank, ton female Salvationists, kneeling on deck, sang On ward Christian Soldiers.” Nineteen survivors were severely frostbitten, the spray coating them with ice. Thirty bodies, encased in ice, were recovered on tho beach? Fourteen others were frozen it) death wlulo drifting in the ship’s boats. Received 10.34 p.m. Fob. 14. NEW YORK, Feb. 14. Men and women fought fiercely for places in tho Larclimont’s boats. Many people wore drowned. Of one boat load containing nine, seven were frozen to death, one cut his throat, and one waded ashore.

FEARS FOR SURVIVORS AT THE CROZETS. MELBOURNE, Feb. 14. The captain of the Catherine fears that the eleven men left at the Crozets are badly off for food. Tho stores on the island were left there in 1868. The hut had been blown down, and tho goods scattered on the beach. They were perished and uneatable. The men wore living on seals. Tho only firewood they had was what they got from the wreckage of the vessel. They had been a month at tho island before tho captain sailed in a boat to try to reach Australia. The vessel went to pieces in a hurricane. The crew, in two boats, were caught by a huge wave and hurled ashore. Tho captain suggests that a fast steamer should he sent from the Cape. It could reach tho island in nine days.

DOMINION HOUSE. OTTAWA, Feb. 13. Colonel Hughes moved a resolution in the Dominion House of Commons, advocating a full partnership union, of Britain and her colonies. He favored one Imperial Parliament with' representatives in every part of the Empire, the British colonial Parliaments to continue to deal with home affairs. Sir Wilfrid Laurier said legislative independence had proved the closest, bond of union between the Motherland and the colonies. There could be no grand Imperial union without absolute freetrade between the component States. Canada had no grievance regarding her relations with the Motherland. Sir F. Borden said it was unnecessary that Imperial federation should be based on Imperial freetrade Many thought the Empire would be bound closer by preference. He believed closer relations would be secured by a process of growth and development-. Colonel Hughes withdrew his motion.

Mr. H. S. Fielding proposes 120 fresh changes in the Canadian tariff, including several in the iron and steel schedules, benefiting British producers. A BIG BURGLARY. ' LONDON, Feb. 13. The house of Mr. Charles Wertheimer, Park lane, was entered by burglars and pictures and articles of virtu, valued at £50,000, stolen, including Gainsborough’s picture’ “Nancy Parsons,” and Reynolds’ portrait of Mistress Charles Yorke, valued at £20,000, and which were unskilfully cut from their frames with a carving knife. AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA. ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 13. A second infernal machine was discovered at Count Witte’s house! It is supposed to have been let down the chimney. A hoax is suspected, as the explosives were weak and the clockwork deficient.