CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2021, 5 March 1907, Page 2

CABLES.

VrtBSS ASSOCIATION COPTRIOIH. LONDON, March 3. Obituaries: Lionel Decle, African explorer, aetat 48 ; Sir August Manns, musical director of Crystal Palace, cetnt 82. Tho Prince of AVales’ oldest sou has passed the preliminary examination entry into the Royal College at Osborne. NEAV YORK, March 3. Mrs. Eddy’s son is proceeding against tho trustees of the Christian Science institute to secure a financial statement, because his mother, ho alleges, ha s been rendered mentally and physically feeble. Tho Lower House of California has passed a Bill virtually preventing aliens holding landed property in California. Admittedly the Bill is aimed an tho Japanese.

A conference committee at AA’ashington deleted Senator Beveridge’s amendment to the Agriculture Bill, requiring packers to put tho date of canning on all meat products.

PRETORIA, March 3. General Botha has re-arranged his Cabinet, Mr. Edward P. Soloman, President of tho Nationalist party, becoming Minister of AVorks, Mr. Smuts Colonial Secretary and Minister for Mines, and Mr. Rissick Minister for* Lands. Sir Richard Solomon declined to join the Ministry. ST. PETERSBURG, March 3. Six men murdered Baron Budberg, a member of the Council of the Russian Empire, formerly chief of tho Esthonian nobility, at his country house. The chief of gendarmes of the Transcaucasian railway was shot dead in tho street of Tiflis. OTTAWT, March 3. Lord Strathcona, on behalf of subscibers, presented Sir Charles Tupper 'his predecessor in the Canadian High Commissioneiship) with a portrait. Sir Charles Tupper, respondThe King of Spain, yielding to tho bishops’ protest, abrogated his decree of August, which authorised civil marriages without a declaration of the contracting parties’ religion. BRUSSELS, March 3. The mail steamer Konigin AVilhelmina has been refloated. SYDNEY, March 4.

Durnan states that he backed himself heavily. The trip cost him £IOOO. MELBOURNE, March 3.

A fire in the forehold of the steamer Canowna, lying at the wharf, was quickly subdued. The vessel was undamaged. One thousand tons of cargo was damaged by fire and water. Hawthorne, Leslie and Company have taken Beardmore’s place in the English mail syndicate. The representatives of the company acknowledge that they hope to obtain assistance from the State Premiers. The Interstate Labor Conference resolved that to overcome the Taff A r ale decision the new'British law should be followed. A motion protesting against the prohibition of the use of union funds for political purposes was carried. Received 9.35 p.m. March 4. PRETORIA, March 4. It is officially announced that General Botha becomes Premier and Minister for Agriculture, Mr. Jacob De A'illicrs Attorney-General, and Minister for Mines, Mr. Rissik Minister for Lauds, and Native Affairs. Mr. Smutt-s, in a letter to Mr. Merriman, warmly acknowledges the support the Het Yolk received from the British community, without which the victory gained would have been impossible. LONDON, March 4. The steamer Geelong collided with and sank the Norwegian steamer Frogmer, off Beachy Head, during a fog. The Geelong brought the Frogmer’s crew to London. Mr. McKenna’s Passive Resisters Relief Bill imposes on denominational schools in London an extra burden of £300,000.

King Edward leaves London to-day on a visit to Biarritz.

Admiral Sir A. R. AA’ilsou has been promoted to be Admiral of the fleet.

Sir Richard Henna Collins,master of the roll, has succeeded Sir H. D. Davy as one of the Lords of Appeal. Sir Id. H. Cozens Hardy has succeeded Sir Richard Collins. Received 10.55 p.m. March 4. Mr. Hardie at Hull declared that but for the presence of laborites in the House of Commons there would have been no tree for feeding the hungry children’s school, and no AA’orkmen’s Compensation Bill worth the paper it was written on, and the Trades Disputes Bill had been a half-hearted settlement. The laborites would not countenance any relief from taxation until the old age pensions were secured. They were preparing a Riglrt-to-work Bill, which would create authority for funds for honest work for honest wages for every man and woman. NEAV YORK, March 4.

An explosion of a store of dynamite injured 20 workmen in Pensylvania railway tunnel, under the Hudson River.

Received 11.10 p.m. March 4. SYDNEY, March 4.

A hailstorm at Mossvale, Sutton Forest, broke all the windows facing the storm, and pierced iron roofs, causing much damage. The flooding of water ruined' the fruit and vegetable crops. Tlio hail was eight incheg deep.

Tho President of the ArbitrationCourt, delivering the award, said than consequent on discoveries tho area of operations of the Court had been reduced almost to vanishing point The industrial arbitration had made a brave show at its launching, but tlie Act had been riddled, shelled, broken fore and aft, and reduced to a sunken hulk. No pilot could navigate such a craft.

Received 11.14 p.m. March 4. LONDON, March 4.

Mr. Chamberlain looked very ill when embarking at Dover. He proceeded to Saint Rauhaell.

Received 12.32 a.m. March 5.

Early to-day the Dover Harbormaster despatched assistance to the Star liner Yaterland, which, with passengers is ashore on the Goodwin Sands.

Two Gorman steamers collided off Goodwin. One began to sink. A boat brought nine of her sailors to Dover. It is reported that tho captain and seven of the crew are standing by, but a tug made a fruitless search, and the search is being renewed.

PARIS, March 4. The Temps asks what right had Sir H. Campbell Banuerman to affirm the possibility in 1899 of a row to arrange limitation of armaments, since in 1899 wo have seen tho Transvaal and Japanese wars, and Moroccan crisis. Compare the ideal with the stern reality, and you will measure the impudent confidence by which the responsible head of tho British Government carried his sway. It would be wise to recognise that tho Hague Conference should be the work of jurists able to codify the laws of war. It was not to establish universal peace. To expect it to do so would bo .to create illusions doomed to grievous disappointment. NEAV YORK, March 4. The United States Congress passed the Ship Subsidy Bill, after omitting inter alia the subvention to the will! Harrimen, and the , Pacific St&SSifcSEESSSiSii ship lines declines to make Mitcd statement regarding tho sugge'.gjsState guarantee of the mail contract?-—