CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2028, 13 March 1907, Page 3

CABLES.

i-ItES3 ASSOCIATION COPYRIGHT. LONDON, March 11. Obituary: Lord Ponrliyn, the owner of extensivo slate quarries near Bangor, Males. Lawton. Atholl, a compositor, a clangorous criminal with a bad 10cord in Australia, was sentenced to five years’ ponal servitude at the Middlesex sessions for burglary.

PARIS, March 11. Two men calling themselves Australians and professing a knowledge of Adoluido people, drugged and robbed cur Bryceson Treharne, of Adelaide, of £3OO, a passpoj-t, and visiting cards at Paris. BERLIN, March 11.

Tho majority of the dockers engaged in London from the dregs of tho population have arrived, ragged and half starving, at Hamburg and are quartered on shipboard. Tho local strikers are exasperated. Wildsdorf, formerly Chief Forest Ranger at Dresden, committed suicide after shooting his wife and live childron.

OTTAWA, March 11. Henry Douglas Person, of Manchester, has been arrested at M innipeg for robbing tho Bank of England of £SIOO. TOKIO, March 11. Japan has constructed a torpedo fired by wireless telegraphy. SYDNEY, March 12. A girl has been plaguo stricken at Woolloomooloo. Tho source of infection is unknown. Referring to tho administration of the City Council for the past five years, tho Lord Mayor says tho improvement sinco the new council took office has been enormous. Tho death rate of tho city has been reduced from 15. S per 1000 to 10.0, while the infantile mortality has also been reduced.

The ship Queen Elizabeth, which has arrived at Newcastle, reports passing a quantity of Oregon timber in tho vicinity of Palmerston Island. Tho captain is of the opinion a vessel is ashore there. MELBOURNE, March 12. At the Methodist Conference a proposal that church members be prohibited from attending balls or theatrical entertainments, or allowing their children to attend dancing classes, met with strong opposition. It was eventually decided to proceed with the next business.

PERTH, March 12. A woman named Mitchell has been committed for trial for murder .n connection with the -baby-farming cases. The Coroner said if the story of the. witnesses was true, it denoted a condition of things which could only be described as filthy, loathsome, and immoral. The treatment of children was disgusting, abominable, and cruel. . .

AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA. ST. PETERBURG, March. 11. The' Russian official organs’ policy is hostile to Sir H. Campbell-Banner-man’s limitations of armaments proposal. The Bourse Gazette and other unofficial newspapers emphasise that it is impossible for other European States to limit their armaments while Germany pursues a Chauvinistic policy. GERMAN “WINE.” BERLIN, March 11. Extraordinary revelations have been made in the Reichstag as to the extent of wine adulteration in Germany. One merchant who was convicted purchased in seven years 34001bs of glycerine, 12,0001bs of tartaric acid, 16001bs of - potash, and llOOlbs of citric acid. A' merchant named Kerr was sentenced at Neustadt to two months’ imprisonment besides a fine for selling during 12 months 55,000 gallons of wine not containing a trace of grape juice. FEDERAL MAIL CONTRACT.

POSITION STILL HOPEFUL. Received 12.16 a.m. March 12. SYDNEY, March 11. Mr. Clarke states that he has no hesitation in saying that the contract can be' carried oat. There had been difficulties, but advices lie had received showed that those had been overcome. AVhen he left London the finances were practically settled. Not until his arrival at Fremantle did he hear there had been a hitch, which had now been satisfactorily disposed of. His project had nothing whatever to do with the establishment ol a line to Vancouver. Received 12.20 a.m. March 13. SYDNEY, March 12. Mr. Clarke reiterates that his mission never had anything to do with a guarantee, and that all statements fo the contrary are absolutely untrue. He had nothing to do with anything that he had not a right tp under the contract. When the history of the undertaking was written the people of Australia would have no cause to regret that English shipbuilders came together to establish a lino commensurate with the importance of the Commonwealth.

SOUTH AFRICA. GENERAL RDTHA’S PACIFIC ‘ 'DECLARATIONReceived 10.49 p.m. March 12. PRETORIA, March 12, General Botha, at a banquet at Pretoria, said the Boers were so deeply grateful to the King and British Government and people for their generous granting of a free constitution, that British interests would be absolutely safe in their hands. They would be jealous for the honor of the flag. General Botha declared that he would try to create a united South Africa, and try all means to help the mines, while resisting attempts of powerful corporations to prevent prospecting of tho country. They did not intend to reduce natives to a servile state, but encourage them to become useful and contented workers. Ho intended to attend tho Colonial Conference.

THE PARIS STRIKE. CLEMENCEAU’S INTERVENTION APPROVED OF. Received 10.58 p.m. March 12. PARIS, March 12. Tho French Chamber of Deputies, by 378 to 68, endorsed M. Clemenceau’s intervention in tho electrician’s strike, ignoring M. Jaures’ heated strictures. ASSASSINS. BULGARIAN PREMIER WOUNDED. Received 10.58 p.m. March 12. • LONDON, March 12. Reuter states that ' Pretaroff, a dismissed official of the Agricultural Bank, thrice fired a revolver, killing Petkoff. SOFIA, March 12. The Bulgarian Premier, while walking witfi tho Duke Boris in tho garden at Sofia, with CJeriadjff, Minister for Commerce,' was wounded by an assassin, who was arrested. TIMBEB KING disappears, FEARS THAT HE HAS BEEN KIDNAPPED. Received 12.22 a.m. March 13. NEW YORK, March. 12. Weyor Lanser, an immensely rich lumber king, has disappeared from California. He was last seep on Friday at Santa Barbara. It is feared that he has been kidnapped.

FOODLESS TURKS. TROOPS REFUSE TO UNDERGO QUARANTINE AT SUEZ. Rocoivod 12.22 n.m. March 13. PORT SAID, March 12. Fifteen hundred Turkish troops aboard a transport refused to undorgo qunrnutino at Suez, alleging that they woro foodloss. They were allowed to proceed to Port Said.

’FRISCO SERVICE. WITHDRAWAL - OF STEAMERS. Received 12.22 a.m. March 13. NEW YORK, March 12. The Now York Sun states that tho Oceanic Steamship Directors notify Washington of tho projected withdrawal of st'onmors from tho Australian service.

BOATING DISASTER. 22 GREEK LABORERS DROM’NED Rocoivod 12.22 n.m. March 13. NEW YORK, March 12. A boat capsized in tho Sacrnmonto River, California, drowning twentytwo Greek laborors.