CABLES

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2034, 20 March 1907, Page 2

CABLES

PRESS ASSOCIATION COPYRIGHT. LONDON, March 18. The Attorney-General, on behalf of the Crown, has put in a claim on the Page estate, 60 square miles in extent, and covering one-third of the Middlesex suburbs and the London part of Hertfordshire, which is worth £2,000,000 per annum, on the ground that there is a defect existing in the title, which has been in existence for years. A Select Committee enquires into the claim. Mr. John Morley, on the grounds of public policy, refuses to permit a Royal geographical expedition to ascend Mt. Everest from the Tibetan side. Sir George Taubman Gordie protests against the Government raising a Himalayan barrier against the advance of knowledge. NEW YORK, March 18.

The Evening World, New York, reports that Rockfeller is giving 10 million pounds sterling to establish unsectarian schools in China, as a preliminary to efforts to Christianise the people. He believes the missionaries should first educate and then try to convert the people. BERLIN, March 18. The newspaper Hamburg Nacliricben urges Germany to employ every means to prevent ail Anglo-Russian understanding. Germany is re-arming her artillery with a new recoil-less gun, and her infantry with a vastly improved rifle, in both cases, it is reported, eclipsing the arms of France. SOFIA, March 18. M. Gudeff is the new Premier of Bulgaria. ST. PETERSBURG, March 18. The police at Rassadavrilof, Russia fired upon 500 peasants who were looting a Government drinking establishment, killing eight. A boy of 15 set fire to thirty houses nt Posen, Poland, causing loss estimated at £IOO,OOO. The members o, tlie Domna are indignant that neither the Throne nor the Government have expressed concern at tlie fall of the ceiling in the Domna chamber. This neglect is likely to induce extremists to coalesce with the Social Democrat section Siberian electors urge the proclamation of a constituent assembly. SYDNEY, March 19. Mr. Trevisa Clark states that the place of Vickers, Maxim and Co. on the mail syndicate has been filled. The Arbitration Court award has increased tlie wages of tlie Sydney Ferries Company’s firemen and deck hands. PERTH, March 19. There are heavy floods in the goldfields districts. Several wash-aways on the Murchison railway are interrupting traffic. MELBOURNE, March 19. A large gathering farewelled Mr. Bent, State Premier, on his departure for England. Referring to the prosperity of the State, Mr. Bent stated that after next conversion loan there would for the next six years be conversion required of only £150,000 per annum. SHIPPING CASUALTIES. LONDON, March IS. ‘ The steamer Pibba, from Lagos, has been wrecked at Salcomb, Devonshire. Eighty passengers were with difficulty rescued by means of a rocket apparatus. The s.s. Suevic went ashore on the Brandies rocks. Her position is critical. The fog is clearing. The weather was very bad and the sea rough. It is reported there is water in the compartments of the main, No. 2 and No. 3 holds. The after part of the steamer is afloat. Five lifeboats from Falmouth and Jugs assisted in rescue work, all on hoard being saved. A later message states that splendid discipline was observed throughout.

.There is a chance of getting tlio c-uevic off. At low water her bow is in tlie water and stern raised. Rescue work was hazardous owing to a heavy swell. BRISBANE, March 19. The s.s. Miklnra has 180 cattle aboard. The chief officer thinks the crew have probably landed since ho left. The s.s. Burrumbeet is proceeding to the scene of the wreck. Received 10.43 p.m. March 19. LONDON, March 19. Being Captain’s Jones’ last homeward trip, he was the recipient on Saturday of a presentation marking the passengers’ appreciation of his kindness and courtesy. At nightfall on Sunday, the Suevic entered a bank of fog, and crept up the Channel at half-past ten, the Lizard’s light being observed but a more sjieek. The Suevic immediately struck on the terrible Brandies Rocks, not far from Manacles Point. The grating noise caused by her sliding over the rocks as slie settled, crashing amidships, brought the passengers to the deck. There was no panic, there being every confidence in Captain Jones. Cannon, rockets, and flares were used, and gradually brought five life-boats and several tugs. There were 170 women and children aboard the Suevic, and they were meanwhile given first place in the liner’s boats, which were launched in heavy seas in the darkness. The women descended a rope ladder one by one. Tlie women behaved splendidly. The sailors carried tlie infants. Tlie crew, life-boat men, and coast guards worked with the utmost ardour for eight hours in rescuing those aboard.