CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2051, 11 April 1907, Page 2

CABLES.

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LONDON, April 9. The English Bowling Association declined to arrange a test match with visiting Now Zealanders, on the ground that tho latter were hardly representative. Three -fires occurred within a week in the Chinese district of Harbin, Manchuria. The whole of tho business quarter was destroyed. Thousands are homeless. Lasker won the fifteenth game in the chess tournament. Havelock Wilson’s creditors accepted a composition of 10s in the £■ Mr. Beerbohm Tree’s Company has gone to Berlin, on the Kaiser’s invitation,to play Shakespearian dramas. They took a shipload of scenery.

SUEZ, April 9:

Tho Turkish transport Army, from Hcdoida, has arrived at Suez. Her troops were mutinous, and refused to land at Akabah. They forced the captain to proceed.

CAPETOWN, April 9.

Thero is a popular agitation at the Cape in favor of an export tax on uncut diamonds in order to transfer tho cutting industry to the colony. MADRID, April 9.

Every church in Spain has three days’ special masses for the Queen’s accouchement.

MELBOURNE, April 10.

A band of seventy farmers lei t Victoria for Queensland to ta'ko up land on the Darling Downs, being unable to secure land in Victoria at a reasonable price.

The case against Wren’s tote and tho City • Tattersall’s Club has concluded. Tho Judge stated he would make no declaration against the buildings if the owners entered into an undertaking not to use them for gambling purposes. Tho necessary guarantee was given.

Received 9.28 p.m., April 10. LONDON, April 10

Tho Chronicle strongly urges Sir 11. Campbell-Bannerman to assume the general presidency of tho Imporial ■Conference, which, in perfect rudimentary form, is an Imperial Parliament.

Mr. Deakin docs not accompany the Premiers to Edinburgh, since he does not accept the honorary University distinction. Mr. Lloyd George appointed an advisory committee concerning the rules, regulations, and scales under the Merchant Shipping Acts. A misunderstood signal was the cause of the Trafalgar’s mishap. Notices at Woolwich have been suspended for a month to enable the War Office to reconsider the whole question.

Received 1.20 a.in., April 11. SYDNEY, April 10. Sailed at 3, Miowera for Auckland; H.M.S. Powerful, for Lyttelton. MELBOURNE, April 10. . The Acting Premier, commenting on the Judge’s decision in the WrenCitv Tattersall’s case, said it was difficult to imagine what violation of the act would be sufficient to in-

duce the Judge to grant an order, provided the offender acknowledged his guilt, and promised not to repeat the offence. BRISBANE, April 10. Two cases of plague are reported. MOROCCO, April 10. The ringleader in Dr. Charbonnier’s murder has been arrested at Tangier. Received 12.25 a.m., April 11. ST. PETERSBURG, April 10. lvokovtsoff supported the " motion of the Constitutional, Democratic and Moderate Parties to refer the Budget to a Budgetary committee. This was adopted largely by social democrats, revolutionaries constituting the minority.

THE THAW TRIAL.

NEW YORK, April 9. The Thaw murder trial has been resumed. Mr. Delmas, leading counsel for the defence, addressed the jury, contending that the only assertion in the evidence against- the truth of Mrs. Thaw’s story was the word of lawyer Hummel, whose evidence was obvious for the affidavit represented him her legal adviser, which he denied ' under oath, because otherwise he would have been unable to give evidence at all against her and her husband.

Received 9.28 p.m., April 10. N,EW YORK, April 10. Mr. Delmas, resuming, made an almost direct appeal to unwritten law, and urged the jury to do as they would be done by.

THE ROYAL TOUR.

MADRID, April 9. At a banquet aboard the battleship Numancia, King Alfonso, toasting King Edward and Queen Alexandra, emphasised the solidarity of interests and mutual sympathy of the two countries, whose friendship was strengthened by ties of kinship. He regretted Queen Ena’s enforced absence. King Edward, responding, eulogised the dowager Queen Christina’s regency, and reciprocated King Alfonso’s desire that the ties between the two Houses and countries, founded on historical and traditional community of interest and real sympathy should be strengthened and drawn closer. Received 9.28 p.m., April 10. MADRID, April 10. ICing Edward banquetted King Alfonso and party on the Victoria and Albert.

BATTLESHIP STRANDED.

LONDON, April 9. Tho battleship Trafalgar, owing to a defect in her steering gear, has stranded on Devil’s Point reef at tho entrance to the harbor of Dcvonport.. There was a strong ebb tide. The vessel was towed off within half an hour, with 2ft of water in her forward compartment. The damage is slight.