CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2020, 4 March 1907, Page 2

CABLES.

i-rfEBS ASSOCIATION COPYRIGHT. LONDON, March 1. Hector Fraser, Mclntosh, and Grey divided 17,323 francs at tho triennial championship of pigeon shooting at Monte Carlo, with 23 kills out of 25. Fraser won the championship medal with 24 out of 25. 'Tho Daily Mail states that J. R. Mackay, Australian cricketer, who has taken up his residence in South Allien, lias been invited to join tlio South African cricket foam to visit England. Dr. Oldham, an opthalmic surgeon at Brighton, has bequeathed £60,000 to higher education. CONSTANTINOPLE, March 1. Fehim Pasha, who was transported to Mudania, is being treated like a prince there. Europeans are indignant at the Sultan showing scant respect to the Powers in his methods of punishing Fehim. ROME, March 1. 'J he rebellious Bunal tribe, attacking an Italian punitive expedition in Italian East Africa was repulsed near Danal with 200 killed. The Italian casualties numbered 27. Mr. Picrpont Morgan has bought four Vandykes in Italy for £IOO,OOO. BERLIN, March 1. It is reported that the German Government proposes to widen tho North Sea canal sufficiently to admit of vessels of the Dreadnought type, at a cost of ten million pounds sterting. ' Various sections of Radicals in the Reichstag warned Prince Bulow that the price of their support must be liberal reforms. AMSTERDAM, March I. The German mail boat Konigir, Vilhelmina is stranded outside Flushing. A tug rescued 90 passenger-s and the mails.

SYDNEY, March 2. The Government have decided to set apart a portion of Darlinghurst gaol to try a new system of treating habitual drunkards, who will now bo kept in gaol for 12 mouths, or longer if necessary, in order to restore them bedily and if possible destroy their craving for drink. MELBOURNE, March 2.

The Western Bond, at the corner ol Little Collins and King Streets has been destroyed by fire. The damage is estimated at £IO,OOO. Mr. Clarke asserts that the statement that his mission was connected with torpedo boats was a harmless fictin, quite disproved when the facts nere announced. Mr. Bent’s proposal is that each of the States should guarantee £150,000 of the mail syndicate’s debentures. Other members of his Cabinet do not take a complacent view of the proposal. Mr. Kidston declares he will not entertain tliic suggestion for one moment. The Premier of Tasmania says he has heard nothing of it, but speaking on the spur of the moment) he viewed it unfavorably.

Received 4.30 p.m., March 3. LONDON, March 2. Sir T. Sutherland, in a letter to the Times, states that he is unaware of a conspiracy against the mail project). If any of the eminent shipbuilders who evolved the scheme, who apparently know but little of Australian trade, cared to see the figures regarding the working of 10,000-trn mail ships, he woull givs them some startling information. The l-eninsular Company contemplate laying up some of their largest steamers for a considerable portion of the year in preference to running costly voyages to Australia. Obituary: The Marchioness of Ripon.

Received 8.55 p.m. March 3. SYDNEY, March 2. ; Sailed, John Hardie, for New Zealland ; Moeraki 2.15. Received 12.30 a.m. March 4. LONDON, March 3. Mr. Chamberlain, accompanied by his wife, travelled to London, and is proceeding to the Riviera. NEWCASTLE, March 3. Sailed, Maroro, for Auckland. MELBOURNE, March 3. Arrived, Queen Amelia, from Dunedin ; Monovvai.