CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2022, 6 March 1907, Page 2

CABLES.

riiKSS ASSOCIATION COPYRIOHT. LONDON, March 4. The Lady Pirric, a 11,000 ton lloyal Mail steamer, reported to be for the South American trade, has been launched at Belfast. The Unionist press attribute the Progressives’ defeat at the London County Council elections to the fear newspapers declare the Couneil has of Socialistic legislation. Radical been made the scapegoat for Borough Councils’ extravagances. The Daily Chronicle says a conspiracy of all unclean interests has overthrown tho Progressives. Obituary: Mr. Donald Sullivan, member of the House of Commons for Westmeath South. The Duchess of Marlborough joined active slum workers in connection with the Church Army. In the Houso of Commons Air. W. IT. Levon introduced a Bill grantng all British citizens a pension of 5s weekly at the age of 05, the Exchequer to provide nine-tenths and local taxation one-twentieth of tho necessary funds. PARIS, March 4. Spain and France have agreod to construct railways through tho Pyrenees.

NEW YORK, March 4. The United Sates Congress, during ten weeks, voted 200 million pounds sterling in appropriations. This is a record. Mrs Eddy, according to New York telegrams, has offered her son a large sum to forego all claims against her and the Christian Scientists. Democrats on the United States Senate resolved to talk out the Shipping Subsidy Dill. Congress passed Mr. Aldrich’s Currency Dill, which authorises the Treasury to place Customs receipts with banks, instead of retaining them, and increases by threefold the currency which tlio banks may retire monthly. ALGIERS, March 4

Snow and rain caused a tremendous mountain slido six miles square in extent at) Guelma, Algeria, destroying many houses and burying 85 persons. BERLIN, March 4. Count Reventhlow, naval export, condemns many German battleships, which lie declares to be obsolete and unseaworthy, seventeen being mere floating coffins. He adds that it is impossible, under such conditions, for Germany to contemplate war with equanimity. Gorman newspapers comment on Sir H. Campbell Bannerman’s article as suspicious and hostile in tone. CALCUTTA, March 4. The Ameer has engaged European experts to start woollen mills at Kabul. AMSTERDAM, March 4. One of the despatch bags in possession of Mr. Arthur Herbert, the King’s messenger, lost in the wreck of the steamer Berlin, has been recovered, empty, at the Hook of Holland. ST. PETERSBURG, March 4. The police of St. Petersburg found concealed in students’ quarters at the Polytechnic Institute twelve infernal machines and twenty hand grenades. Fifty persons not students were arrested, including several women. SYDNEY, March 4.

At the Wesleyan Conference, the Rev. Burton, of the Indian Mission, Fiji, stated that there were 30,000 Indians in Fiji, and they were increasing at the rate of 3500 annually, while the Fijian population was decreasing 2000 yearly. He feared that in ten years Fiji would again be a heathen country. There was no doubt the Pacific was being Orientalised ,for Hindoos also were getting a footing in the New Hebrides, New Britain, and Samoa. Unless they made special efforts to save the situation, the Crescent of Mahomet would displace the Cross of Christ in the Pacific.

A deputation asked Mr. O’Connor, aeting-Premier, to secure the English art collection at the Christchurch Exhibition for the Exhibition at Sydney. Mr. O’Connor, in promising to submit the request to Mr. Carruthers, pointed out that numbers of the pictures had already been sold. He raised the question whether the arts and crafts collection was wanted. The deputation stated that they wanted the wholo collection, but if that was not jiossible, a judicious selection. A fresh discovery of ticks on the southern side of the Tweed river has been made. The district has been quarantined. The storm at Mossvale broke 200 panes of glass at the Governor’s residence.

A scheme for medical inspection of children at the State schools has been approved. The Report of the Miners’ Accident Relief Fund shows that the amount deducted from miners’ wages during the past year aggregated £25,000, representing an average employment of 253,642 persons. Thieves entered Robert Beckett’s paddock at Tempo and stole a promising Rothschild—Lady Julian trotting foal. MELBOURNE, March 5. At the Labor Conference a motion by Mr. Beeston was adopted, recording the labors of, and loss by the death, of Mr. Seddon. It is reported that several mercantile firms in different States have offered to take a substantial proportion of the mail syndicate’s debentures. Mr. Clark states that an Adelaide commercial house offered to take £IOO,OOO. Received 11.15 p.m. March 5. LONDON, March 5.

Mr. Justice Kennedy has succeeded Sir li. H. Cozen as a Lord Justice of Appeal. Received 11.15 p.m. March 5. SYDNEY, March 5. A case of plague has. occurred in the city. The weather is exceptionally hot. The greater part of the State has been much benefitt'ed by heavy thunder rains. MELBOURNE March 5. Mr. Donkin states that the AngloFrench New Hebrides Convention will not become operative until officials have been appointed and sent out. No intimation has been received when this will bo done.

Received 11.25 p.m. March 5. SYDNEY, March 5. The wool market was very active and prices very firm at last week’s closing rates . Grunothull, mentioned in the cables, was manager of the German Imperial printing office. He committed suicide in prison. Owing to the absence of local candidates for the Ministry in Nev.South Wales, the Wesleyan Conference has been compelled to accept offers from other States. Private advices have been received that Captain Stokes Rees, in charge of Garden Island, has been .promoted to Rear-Admiral PORT MACQUARIE, March 5. Sailed, the Ururoa, for Wellington. MELBOURNE, March 5. The State Cabinet knocked on the head Mr. Bent’s proposal to- guarantee the mail syndicate. The Government took the view that if a Government guarantee had been offered when tenders were called, a much more advantageous offer would have been forthcoming, and it was too late now, apart from the unfairness to other tenderers, to step in at this stage with a guarantee.

JAMA'CA’S RELIEF. MANSION HOUSE FUND. Received 9.. j" p.in. March 0. LONDON, March 5. The Mansion llouso Jamaica relief fund has reached fifty thousand pounds..

SOUTH AFRICA. THE BOTHA CABINET. Received 11.22 p.m. March 5. PRETORIA, March 5. General Botha’s Cabinet was sworn in before Lord Selborne at Parliament Hall. The ceremony was impressive. The Premier, Generad Botha, in a message through the Press to the British public, says:— “Britain will never have cause to regret the trust placed in the Boer people, who have faith in the Transvaal’s future, believing that prosperity and contentment are achievable by legislating in the interest of ail.” lie declares there are many difficulties ahead, none of which, nowovcr, cannot be overcome now that the two races are co-operating for the country’s good. Mr Edward Solomon, Minister of Works, also issues a message in which lie gives the assurance that as far as the Boers are concerned, racialism is dead. Received 1.55 a.m., March 6. LONDON, March 5. Mr. Churchill stated that there would be no modifications in connection with the Upper House in the Transvaal. BRITISH NAVY.

A NEW ADMIRAL. Received 11.15 p.m. Marea 5. LONDON, MarVi 5. The Prince of Wales has heal created an Admiral. SHIPPING CASUALTIES. DIG STEAMER ASHORE. Received 11.15 p.m. March 5. TOKIO, March 5 The United States Great Northern Railway Company’s steamer Dakato, bound from Seattle to Yokohama and Hongkong, is ashore in a bad position at Nashima Cape, Japan. The passengers were saved. The hull alone is insured for half a million, and the cargo for £50,000. THE JAMAICA AFFAIR. GOVERNOR RESIGNS. Received 11.15 p.m. March 5. LONDON, March 5. Mr. Churchill has announced that Sir A. Swcttenham has resigned the Governorship of Jamaica on the grounds of age. He was given the opportunity of continuing to hold office .but definitely declined. BRITISH ARMY RE-ORGANISA-TION SCHEME.

Received 11.15 p.m. March 5. LONDON, March 5. In the House of Commons Mr. Haldane’s Army Re-organising Bill was read a first time without division. The criticism was searching, but not unfriendly.

Mr. Haldane emphasised the remarkable response of the country in support of the scheme, instancing one industry. Thirty-five shipping firms in Liverpool and 19 in Loudon had determined to give preference in the selection of holidays to those going into camp, besides an extra week holiday. THE MAIL SYNDICATE. REASONS FOR POOR SUCCESS. Received 9.57 p.m. March 5. LONDON, March 5. The Times attributes the ill success of the mail syndicate’s efforts, firstly, to the high rate of interest ■which nowadays obtained on debentures offering so much better security than the new mail service; secondly, to the dubious nature of the scheme when it came to be closely examined. Not all the influence of Sutherland and others would have shut off supplies and capital had serious business men thought well of the scheme on its merits. HIS MAJESTY. THE KING IN PARIS. Received 9.57 p.m. March 5. PARIS, March 5. His Majesty King Edward has arrived in Paris.

COLONIAL CONFERENCE. GENERAL BOTHA INVITED TO ATTEND. Received 9.57 p.m. March 5. LONDON, March 5. General Botha has been invited to attend the Colonial Conference. GERMAN BANK’S LOSSES. Received 9.57 p.m. March 5. BERLIN, March 5. In IS9S extensive forgeries of notes on the Imperial German bank were successfully carried out by Herr Grunenthal. The total amounted, as far as was then known, to half a million marks. The annual report shows that the bank sustained in 1906 a further loss of 740,000 marks, the value of his forged notes circulated abroad since his death. These have now been redeemed.