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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2043, 2 April 1907, Page 2

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VRRSS ASSOCIATION COPYRIGHT. LONDON, March 29. A heavy swell caused suspension of salvage operations at the fouovic. All the salvage steamers except one put to sea. Dynamite explosions have strained the ship, and experts regard her condition as critical. S; itccn medical men, including Dr. McOall Anderson, Regius, Pro-, feasor of Medicine at Glasgow University, and Dr. Hailehurton, lrofessor’ of Physiology at King s College, have published a manifesto in the Lancet, declaring that in disease alcohol is a ; rapid and trustworthy restorative, and that its moderate use as an article of diet was usually beneficial to adults and women. . The Princess of Wales lias promised to send a screen worked by herselt to the Women’s Exhibition in Melbourne. . Considering"the Colonial v-Jrat Emigrants’ Guide gravely misrepresents Australian conditions, and .ended to prevent emigration,the Agen.tsGoneral have prepared a handbook of tlie Australian States and a guide to emigrants, and asked Mr. H°l wood to substitute it. He is agieoahle to do so. , . „ ’Tlie reduction of the Liberal n ajority at Hexham was due; to the suffragettes’ exertions, and Mr. die’s fiery denunciation oi Jir. doa, the Liberal candidate, for employing cheap Chinese stokers on his ships. Lord Milner, in the National heviewi said it, was essential tor D o (.'denial Conference to provide |.remanent machinery for continuing ’ts work. It would he a, mistake to ask the colonies for more liberal contributions to tlie defences of the Empire, especially the navy. The true principle was to encourage and develop their forces on lines enabling them to effectively co-operate wity the lirilisli army and navy and one anotliei. Grlilicimcn, a New York hamrer - widow, forfeits two million pound® sterling under her husband's will, in order'to marry again. ' f Sir Helv Hutchinson. at Graar Iteinot, expressed heartfelt satisfaction at the steady dun filiation Of racial feeling throughout the country. " 1 The Alliance line of steamers announce the despatch of a monthly steamer to London, Sydney, Adelaide, and Melbourne. The steamer. Den of Airlie initiates the service on April 30th. BRISBANE, March 30.. Mr. YVoodford, Resident Commissioner of the Solomons, states that the repatriation of Kanakas is proceeding satisfactorily.. The natives quickly revert to their old ways. Ihe men returned have been well received by their people. Where the islanders refuse to return to tlieir own islanders they are sent to a. mission station, where they readily obtain work on the plantations. SYDNEY, March 30. Arangements have been made by Admiral Fawkes to send a party of Australians bluejackets for training at naval schools. There was glorious weather jor the holiday. Sixty-seven thousand people were present at the Agricultural Show. . ... ” ... A man died at Waterloo from plague. H.M.S. Psvche, on the voyage irom Hobart, while 250 miles from Sydney, comimicated her position by wireless telegraphy to the Powerful, .lying at Farm. Cove. The-. Challenger, 150 miles off, did the same, also giving the Psyche’s position. Mr Bennett,' a member of the State Parliament, giving his. impressions of his recent visit to New Zealand, says there was much to study and learn in New Zealand in the laws of the .people, and much To admire, too, but should any New South Welshman ask liis advice as to whether he should, go there to settle, lie should say don’t, unless you have capital, and are prepared to -work early and late continuously, and withstand a vigorous . climate. New South AVides, with its genial climate, offers equal, if not superior inducements to settlers. . ' GENOA, March 29. Bantieff has been sentenced to .four years’ imprisonment and 20 years’ expulsion from Switzerland for the murder of Muller, at Interlaken, in September, in mistake for M. Durnovo, an ex-Russian Minister. BERLIN, March 29. The Tageblatt suggests that . Germany sl;o:i]d abandon her Moroccan pretensions on condition that France acquiesces in the development cf German interests in" Turkish Asia, Minor. Outrages against' English blacklegs at Hamburg docks are increasing. One was nearly -stoned to death. Others abandoned their work, alleging they were insufficiently protected. MELBOURNE, March 30." While a farmer named Harrison, of South Morioo, was driving his sister-in-law, Miss, Stone, a burning tree fell across the buggy, killing both. PERTH, March 30. Captain Thorpe's certificate has been suspended for three months for careless navigation of the steamer Mildura.

THE MINE HORROR. PERTH, March SO. There is,a whisper of some shameful neglect on the part of some British miners on the fateful day that Vorischetti was entombed. If tlio story is true, two men covered themselves with ignominy. An official enquiry will be held.- Speaking of his own movements on the day of his imprisonment, Vereschetti states that lie fixed his machine drill ready to boro a hole, but found the compressed air supply gone, and the drill would not work. He waited some, time for resumption of the air supply, and finally went down into the level snly to find a strong current of water Hewing nearly thigh-deep. He rushed . towards the shaft but the water seemed to gather force with depth and bore him backwards. Four times lie essayed to escape, but each time was*- borne back by the current. Whan the water bad risen to bis chin he cleared up the rise, resigned to death. There was a quantity of .stone in the slope and hero lie was left with only stones to rest- on, and about 40 feet of space to move in, .Verescihetti began a period of horror and suspense, not daring to hope. He could not! tell how long after it was when lie heard blows in the rock somewhere above him, and lie responded, and then lie hoped for life. Ho was scared at first when Hughes appeared, but soon recalled the fact that he had once seen a mail in a diving dross at Fremantle. Vereschetti thought he was only three days entombed altogether. ilo did not feel hungry and thirsty until a short time before Hughes camp with food.

TROUBLE IN ROUMANIA. BUCHAREST, March 29. Tlie revolt in Roumania is spreading northward and westward, and is -characterised by the same scenes of arson, pillage, and wholesale destruction • Several proprietors lost thoumnds of pounds. Estates ip Bran-'x-van - and _ Stirbei are -devastated. Rusliuk, Sistovn, .-and Nikopol are lull of refugees. Troops killed .25 peasants at Mazazi. Bands of plunderers concentrated at Viczuodivaia and Stiinipehei and resisted until the artillery destroyed the villages. Tlie artillery dispersed p hand advancing on Gimbatz, killing and wounding many. The States of AVallacliia is very serious. Tranquility has almost been restored in Moldavia.

Austrian troopes are concentrating on the frontier to prevent Roumanians crossing the border. One thousand rebels attacked an infantry regiment. at Brugadia. Half the. soldiers refused to fire, and when tlie order., was repeated killed the colonel and joined , the rebels. A sharp encounter between the loyalists, deserters and peasants, resulted in 200 being killed. Eventually the rebels retired. The rebels treated rich people ferociously. A wounded landlord begged for a priest, but the rebel leaded stabbed liim with a knife, shouting “there’s an absolution for you.” His followers, with axes, hacked off Ids arms and legs, while others danced.