CABLES

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2030, 15 March 1907, Page 2

CABLES

>-«BSS ASSOCIATION —copvniairr. LONDON, March 13. Gourlay, tlio driver of tho express in tho Arbroath disaster, was sentenced to five months’ imprisonment. A total of £I6OO worth of gold has been stolen from the South African Exhibition. CALCUTTA, Alarch 13. Prince Ranjitsinglii, the well-known cricketer, was installed as Jam of Nawangaar with great ceremony. He promised tho British agent that he would “play the game. ST. PETERSBURG, March 13. Pretaroff has confessed that a band of conspirators drew lots as to who should assassinate M. Potkoif, the Bulgarian Premier, and he drew the fatal number. ROAIE, Alarch 13. Tho Italian police are watching tho arrival of an Anarchist from America who was chosen to kill King Emanuel. Three hundred Camorist ringleaders wore arrested at Naples as tho result of a Government crusade against secret criminal societies. PRETORIA, March 13. General Botha’s speech was received with singularly unanimous approval. His definite assurance that be would not disturb tho industrial situation was warmly welcomed. AIELBOURNE, Alarch 14. _ The Victorian wheat harvest is estimated at twenty-four million bushels, an increase of a million over last year. Air. Chapman favors improving the Vancouver service by the substitution of 16-knot boats. A suggestion has been made for a subsidy of £IIO,OOO, of which Canada pays £50,000, New Zealand £40,000, and Australia £20,000. Tho matter will be discussed by Air. Deakin, Sir Joseph Ward, and Sir Wilfrid Laurier in London. SYDNEY, Alarch 14. ' Splendid rains are falling throughout the State. Received 12.40 a.m. Alarch 15. AIELBOURNE, Alarch 14. Hides: Supplies are short and the market firm and unchanged.

Arrived, Selwyn,Craig, from Auckland. BRISBANE, Alarch 14. The Brisbane Chamber of Commerce resolved to protest against tho proposal to exclude Brisbane as a port of call of the Vancouver service, and to ask the Postmaster-Gen-eral to safeguard the interests of Queensland.

THE FERREIRA RAID. SENTENCES REVIEWED. Received 9.37 p.np Alarch 14. CAPETOWN, Alarch 14. The death sentences on Potgeiter and Retilf, for participating in Ferreira’s raid ,have been commuted -to 15 years’ imprisonment, and two of Ferreira’s Joosms have been sentenced to imprisonment for life. STEAM SERVICE. CANADIAN-PACIFIC RAILWAY CO’S. LINE. - . Received 9.37 p.m. March 14. OTTAWA, Alarch 14. It is reported in Ottawa that the Canadian-Pacific Railway Company intend to place their Orient service vessels on the re-organised New Zea-land-Australiau service. BRITISH POLITICS. LONDON, Alarch 13. Since the Brigg .election and the London County Council elections' the Liberals talk less about reform of the House, of Lords, but Sir Charles Dilke and many Radicals are memoralising Sir H. Campbell Bannerman asking for an early pronouncement of his intentions. Lord Alonkswell, speaking at Dover, said the Liberals must cut the claws of the Lords The Conservative reformers wished to strengthen the Lords.

TRAIN DISASTER TWELVE’ jDEATES CAPETOWN, March 13. Owing to the washaway of a culvert a train was wrecked at Alkinaar, oil the Delagoa line. Mr. Jamieson, ex-Minister of " Lands in Westralia, who is on a visit to the Transvaal, and eleven others were killed. Eleven persons were injured. THE JENA EXPLOSION. PARIS, March 13. It is officially announced that out of 630 of a crew 407 men and 24 others aboard the Jena were uninjured. There are 44 in the hospitals, leaving 175 killed and missing. A fragment of a slioll cut off the arm of Lieutenant Renaud, who was aboard the Bauvet in the next dock. A bursting shell killed Lieutenant Reue while ho was trying to open a sluice, hut six companions continued the work amil a shower of projectiles.

Admiral Thomson attributes the explosion to a short circuit, which was possibly due to ail explosion of compressed air breaking some of the electric wires. The Kaiser sent a message of condolence, and Sir Edward Grey condoled on behalf of Britain. There were 3880 melinite shells among the Jena’s explosives. COMPLETENESS OF DESTRUCTION. Received 12.40 a.m. March 15. PARIS, March 14. Experts are amazed at the completeness of the destruction caused by fire on tlie Jena. Ten guns were ruined, only tlio bow pair being unharmed. Lieutenant Helot considers that the fall of a shell or torpedo, or any violent shock, would suffice to explode the powder. WOMEN’S INDUSTRIAL SCHEME SUPPORT FROM LONDON. Received 9.37 p.m. March 14. LONDON, March 14. A large gathering of Australian ladies resolved to send a representative collection of work to the Australian Women’s Industrial Exhibition at Melbourne. It was also resolved to co-operate with Lady Jersey’s committee formed to collect specimens of the work of English lady amateurs and hold a joint Exhibition in June next.. AN IMPERIAL SCHEME. AN IMPORTANT MEMORANDUM. Received 9.42 p.m. March 14. LONDON, March 14. Sir Frederick Pollock has published in tlie Times a memorandum signed by the Duke of Devonshire, Lords Rutland, Milner, Tennyson, and Avebury, Sir Jolin Colomb, Mr. Felix Schuster, Sir George Sydenham Clark, the Hon. W. P. Reeves, and others outlining the essential points on which a general agreement is possible regarding Imperial organisa-

tion. Tlie conclusions resemble those indicated by. Mr. Lyttelton’s despatch. They suggest machinery enabling tlio Colonial Conferences to acquire something in the nature of corporate continuity by the creation of a permanent Secretariat or Intelligence Department, and by a permanent representation of the colonial Governments in London ’ by High Commissioners and other specially appointed iiersons. The Times cordially endorses the general objects and thinks the memorandum errs on the side of excessive vagueness, especially when referring to permanent representation of the colonics,

DEATH OF DOWIE. AMAZING SUPERSTITION. Received 11.56 p.m. March 14. NEW YORK, March 14. There were extraordinary scones at Zion City. Dowie’s body, dressed in the richest prophetical robes, lies in a white coffin at Shiloh House. Crowds of blind, halt, and lnme pass in procession, kissing the robes, hoping for miraculous relief from ailments. A MONEY CRISIS. A PANIC IN WALL STREET. Roceived 12.40 a.m. March 15. NEW YORK, March 14. A panic in Wall street caused great demoralisation. All activo issues declined three to twelve points, attributable to the banks calling in loans, to meet heavy impending disbursements. Mr. Cortelyon, Soevetary to the Treasury, announced that 30 million dollars which Mr. Shaw, Secretary to the Treasury Department, had deposited in the banks, had not been withdrawn at present. Consols touched 8-1 11-16, but closed 4-16 higher. LONDON, March 14. The Times states that the panic was partly due to heavy liquidation in American shares through fears of an advance in the bank rate, also the result of a prolonged spell of dear money, activo trade, and high prices of commodities; also to wild rumors of .financial embarrassments on the Continent.