CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2038, 25 March 1907, Page 3

CABLES.

I'll ESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. LONDON, March 22. Tho Standard states the Dowager

Empress of Russia has given £IO,OOO to the Red Cross Society. The interest thereon will bo allocated in (three prizes, which will be given to jinventinos for the best means to remove wounded on tho battlefield aril 'at sea. In tlie chess championship, Lasker, won 5 games, Marshall nil, while 7 were drawn. The Magistrate warned tho suffragettes that a repetition of tho offence would involve imprisonment without tho option of a fine. V bile the Cheshire Hounds were in hot pursuit of a fox in the Warmingham district, Lord Linlithgow t horse tailed to rise to a fence, and fell heavily" on his rider. Lard Linlithgow s collarbone is believed to be broken.

Miss Patricia Wood lock, of Liverpool, twice previously convicted in connection with suffragettes’ demonstrations, was sentenced to a month's imprisonment for taking part in the last raid on the House of Commons. Mr. Devlin, Irish delegate, v.-hj recently visited Australasia, interviewed on arrival at Queenstown, said the delegates were magnificently rec o d by all classes and creeds in Australia So long as people at Home w... 0 uu;led, and discountenanced factions, they might rely on the generosity of .Australians until self-government v as won.

Kaynor has been scnlui-yl i > death for the murder of WilP-ir. Whitelev.

At the annual University sports, points. 11. L. Robinson of Oxford, an Adelaide resident, won the putting the weight, with 451 inches. ’ H. Sutton, of Oxford, also of Adelaide, was third in the mile race. PEKIN, March 22. China has acknowledged the obliagtion to compensate Britishers’ losses at Shanghai in 1905. PARIS, March 22. In consequence of riots the Paris morgue has been closed to sightseers. Germany has ascertained that it is impossible to advance tlie‘Bagdad railway beyond Taurus without much foreign capital. Then French Bourse will not assist unless the management covers French, English and Russian interests. SYDNEY,March 23. The Director of Labor reports that efficient labor of various classes is scarce. MELBOURNE. March 23. The Herald was fined £lO for publishing betting odds. A stay of proceedings was granted. The Government statistician’s nmonded return shows Jhe wheat yield for the past season was 22,018,000 bushels, an average of 11.13. This yield has only twice previously been exceeded. BRISBANE. March 23. The Parliamentary elections have been fixed for May 18.

FREMANTLE, March 23. The captain alul crow of. the s.s. Mildura have arrived. The captain attributes the wreck to an abnormally strong current carrying the vessel to landwards, and the want of a warning light. He says there is no clianco of refloating the steamer. NEW INVENTIONS. NEW YORK, March 22. Mr. Nixon, an American marine architect, has patented an engine worked by petroleum gos. He claims that it will enable a vessel to cross the Atlantic in four days. LONDON, March 22. Sir Vincent Howard announces that the Hedfieltl Steel Foundry has introduced a new projectile which will pierce any armor. The Vickers-Alaxim Company have invented a system of driving warships with gas, obviating the use of funnels, and thus giving an all round fire. ADELAIDE, March 23. Mr. Morley, of the Taxation Office, has invented an effective contrivance for closing and sealing mailbags. Its adoption would save the Commonwealth between £IO,OOO and £15,000, spent on wax and string.

THE SUBMERGED MINER. PERTH, March 23. In order to reach the entombed miner, the divers had to make their xvay from the 900 ft level through water down a ladder way to tlie 1000 ft lovel, and then proceed 300 ft along the level and 30ft up a rise, at the top of which Verisclietti was imprisoned, the compressed air acting as in a diving bell, keeping him from drowning. Hughes, a miner, used to diving, volunteered to assist the regular divers brought from the dock. Hughes, at'his third attempt, succeeded in reaching the man, after a hard struggle. Tho rise was almost blocked with mud. Verisclietti was intensely suprised when the diver emerged from the water and supplied him with food. An attempt will be made to get'jVorisehetti out in a diving dress. '

SOUTH AFRICA. PRETORIA, - March 22. The indentures of 407 Chinese on tlie Rand will expire at the end of June, and the remainder in August. Mr. Smuts has announced that the matter of re-engagement will not be debated until Parliament rc-assem-bles in June. Sir George Fairer urges tho appointment of a Labor Commission. General Botha contemplates a two million loan for a Land Bank as soon as convenient. In the Transvaal 1 Assembly, Mr. Byers, whose racial partisanship is notorious, promised, speaking in English, to follow the best Parliamentary traditions of the Motherland, and also of the Motherland colony at the Cape. CAPETOWN, March 22.

Air. T. P. Tlieron, addressing the Cape Afrikander Bond Congress at Middleburg, declared that tlie Bond would do nothing to retard federation, but it must emanate voluntarily from the peoplo.

BRITISH POLITICS. LONDON, March 22. There are persistent reports that Mr. Asquith intends to repeal the taxes on coffee, cocoa, and dried fruits. . In the House of Commons Sir H. Campbell Bannerman said the Government were opposed to the Channel tunnel on the grounds that even if military dangers were ampß guarded against, there would still bo a feeling of insecurity in the country, calculated to lead to constant demands for fresh expenditure on defence. There was no prospect of commercial advantage from the tunnel sufficient to compensate foi tße resulting evils.

Mr. Balfour expresses great satisfaction of tho Government declaration.