CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2015, 26 February 1907, Page 3

CABLES.

V4EBS ASSOCIATION COrYßianT. LONDON, Feb. 24. Router states Unit the new Transvaal Ministry will bo composed entirely of Het-Volkites, as follows: Premier and Minister for Native Affairs, General Botha; Colonial Seerotary, Mr. Smuts; Minister for Lands and Public Works, Mr. Cullinnn; Colonial Treasurer, Mr. H. C. Hull; Minister for Justice, Mr. Villiers; Minister for Mines, Mr. Russic; while Mr. Andreas (Stockenstrom) will bo Government candidate for the Speakership. The Shaw, Snvill Company have ordered the building of a now steamer, which will be a sister ship to the Matatua.

In the international Rugby mate! Scotland (15 points) defeated Ireland (3).

In a chess match by cable Britan defeated the- United States by 5 1 games to 4.}.

The Daily Expres sstates that King Edward, during his recont visit to Paris, sent the Kaiser a message of peace and goodwill. Tlio assurance was timely, as tho German press had begun to attribute anti-Gorman motives to the visit.

Sir H. Campbell-Bannerman refused Mrs. Fawcett and others permission to appear at the bar of tho House of Commons to present a suffragist petition. The King opened the South African Products Exhibition in the Horticultural Hall at Westminster, and expressed satisfaction with the exhibition, which is the result of the combination of several South African Governments. The Queen, Prince of Wales, and the various Agonts-Gcn-erals were among the influential gathering present. Air. Colin George Campbell succeeds Sir Horace AYalpole as Assistant Under-Secrotary at tho Indian Office.

Ten thousand municipal reformers made a demonstration in Trafalgar Sqnare. Gangs of progressive roughs attacked their banner, and shouted down tho speakers. Several hand-to-hand fights occurred.

Received 11.38 p.m. Feb. 25. LONDON, Feb. 25.

King Edward, in a speech at the South African Exhibition, said: — “There is a strong, earnest desire in South Africa to advance prosperity, and relying on the cordial co-opera-tion of all subjects, I view with confidence the future of the great, interesting and important part of these dominions. The Exhibition is evidence that rich as South Africa is in gold and diamonds she possesses still more permanent sources of prosperity in the agricultural capacities of the sub-continent. The common action of the Governments is additional proof that an essential is unity in South Africa, the realisation of which in every sense is a subject near my heart.”

ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 25. ‘ Obituary: Baron de Staal, former- ' ]y Russian Ambassador in London; SYDNEY, Feb. 25. Arrived, Aldebaran from Auckland. A fresh case of plague is reported One of last week’s patients died today. Received 11.50 p.m., Feb. 25. NEW YORK, Feb. 25. President Roosevelt', in a speech to Harvard under-graduates, said that honest, fair dealing railway corporations would gain and not lose by federal control. He added, “The State’s rights should be preserved when they meant the people’s rights ,not when they meant the people’s wrongs.” AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA. Received 9.28 p.m., Feb. 25. ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 25. A committee of experts found that each infernal machine in Count de Witte’s chimneys contained 3] pounds of explosives, sufficient to blow the main walls down. The mechanism was set by an unskilled hand. General Biiderling warmly defended the valour of the seventeenth corps in losing 20,000 killed and wounded. He declares that General Kuropatkin, after every battle, blamed the subordinate generals in order to preserve his own reputation. Revolutionaries, in robbing a subliarban bank at Warsaw, killed seven clerics, soldiers, and customers, and wounded five others. ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 25. A bomb thrown at Odessa wounded the chief of police, and injured 9 others. The perpetrator escaped to Achilles wood. COMET CONTACT. ROME, Feb. 24. Professor Metteucci, director of the Observatory on Mount Vesuvius, declares that at the end of March the substance of a comet discovered by Marchetti will come into contact with the earth’s atmosphere causing some danger. THE PREDICTION RIDICULED. Received 12.17 a.m. Feb. 26. SYDNEY, Feb. 25. The Government Astronomer ridicules Metteucci’s predictions. It is, hj said, no new thing for comets to sweep the earth quite inoffensively. Nothing was known here of Marchetti’s comet ,but supposing that such a- comet exists and came in contact with the earth, it would not have as much effect as mist on the mountains. Several other astronomers confirm this view. GERMANY’S LITTLE WAR. THE BON DELEW A ARTS SURRENDER. Received 9.28 p.m., Feb. 25. BERLIN, Feb. 25. The- Boiidelzwaarts have surrendered. They will recognise German dominion and accept the territorial setlemon ts assigned them, with the loan of sheep and goats, the authorities at discretion to lend sporting rifles occasionally for a low days. express train derailed. PRECIPITATED INTO RIVER. Rccoived 9.28 p-ni., Feb. 25. NEW YORK, Feb. 25. The Pennsylvania., to Chicago 18liours’ express was derailed at a curve and descended an embankment into the shallow Conemaugli River, near Johnstown. Fifty people were injured, and ten are missing. A DASTARDLY DEED. Received 11.50 p.m. Feb. 25. '' ' ' ' LONDON, Feb. 25. Two sons and a daughter, occupants since 1892 of a farm at Cloghi:oe, Mid-Cork, whence Cronin was predecessor, wore startled early. on Saturday mqrning by a terrific noise. The stable was shattered. A burnt fuse was found in the vicinity. The Estates Commissioners latterly investigated Cronin’s claim to re-instate-ment, No decision had been given. WRECK OF STEAMER. MANY LIVES IN PERIL. Received 9.28 p.m., Fob. 25. ATHENS, Feb. 25. Tjio Austria] Lloyd steamer Imporatrix, from Brindisi to Bombay, with 120 of a crew and 20 passengers, was wrecked at Cape Elaphionisi, Crete, during a gale. A warship rescued 17, and rescues continue,

SHIPPING DISASTERS. FREMANTLE, Feb. 25. The Carnarvon Castle, bound from Liverpool to Melbourne with a full general cargo, was in latitude 42 south, longitude 104 east, when a fire was discovered amidships in the hold. Anderson, tho cook, who first discovered tho fire, states that the captain ordered the coverings to be taken off the main hatch and tho galley was torn up iu two places, and water poured in by moans of buckets and pumps. The fire seemed to come from the lower ’tween deck. All hands fought the flames until 10 o’clock that night; but it gained so rapidly that the whole of the ’tween deck between th • bows and main mast were one mass of flamo, and tho h-M'. uas so terrible that all hands were driven to tho after deck, all more or less severely burned. Tho captain then told them it was hopeless to save the ship, and ordered them to man the life-boats, which were got ready for sea.

Anderson continued: “We were put on rations of two pounds of meat a meal among cloven men, and two condensed milk tins of water per man per day. After separating from the captain wo encountered a strong south-west, gale, and wore hove to for 40 hours. With great difficulty the boat was kept from swamping. The wind continued for the next two days in the same quarter, but nOt so hard, so wo were able to make a fairly good run. On the night of the eleventh day south-west wind strengthened to a gale. All the bread was spoiled by the seas. We had to heave to. Starvation was then facing us. The water running short, each man having half a milk tin a day. AVe had now only meat and biscuits to eat. Berin was taken ill, but recovered. I used to drink eight or ton mouthfuls of salt water every 24 hours, and owing to taking only small quantities was none the worse. The weather was moderate until three days before wo reached Fremantle, when there was a stiff south-south-west wind. Just before wo got this breeze we were becalmed for a day, sharks swimming around the boat' for three hours. Wo sighted the smoke of two steamers, but they did not see ns. At 4 o’clock on Sunday morning we rounded Rottnest Island, and started to run across to Fremantle. We were entirely exhausted then, and as wo climbed on the wharf fell down. We suffered terrible privations through hunger and thirst, loss of sleep, and being continually wet through. None of us closed our eyes for tho last three days or nights. In tho gale on the eleventh day we several times thought we were lost, and almost gave up hope.” The boat which reached Cape Naturalist contained sixteen men and the captain, who experienced terrible sufferings. Owen Higgs died of exposure. The captain and boy were very ill.

“In each boat were placed jars of water, totalling 25 gallons for ours and 30 for the captain’s. The boats stood by the ship all night. The vessel was wrapped in flames from stem to stern, and from track to truck. About midnight the mainmast fell against the mizzen and carrio the mizzen top-gallant overboard. By daylight the ship was smouldering, clouds of steam rising from the redhot sides. When it was found to be impossible to board her again the captain gave orders to shape a course east by north by half north, and make the best speed for Cape Leeuwin, about 1100 miles off. Each boat was 22 feet long, 5 feet beam, and luggerrigged. Our boat made considerably more headway than the captain’s for the first six days, and we had to put back several times to keep company. The weather was moderate. There was a stiff blow from the north-east. On the night of the seventh day a strong breeze sprang up from the southward, and in the morning we could see nothing of the captain’s boat.”

Received 1.12 a.m., Feb. 26. PERTH, Feb. 25.

A Government steamer proceeds to Cape Naturalist to bring the captain and crew of the Carnarvon Castle to Fremantle, the men being too weak to travel by road. A message from the Cape states that another apprentice died to-day as the result of exposure. A member of the' mate’s boat states that all worked splendidly and coolly in the trying voyage to Australia. Occasionally one of their number would lose heart, and the rest would do their best to cheer him up. They had their last sup of water a few hours before they sighted land.