CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2074, 8 May 1907, Page 2

CABLES.

I’ll ESS ASSOC! ATION — COPYEIOHT. LONDON, May 6. An attractive international Exhibition has opened at Dublin. Mr. Cameron, Now Zealand Produce Commissioner, took part in a procession with representatives of Canada, Italy, Franco and other countries. King Edward telegraphed trusting the Exhibition would prove a success and demonstrate Ireland’s international progress. Lord Aberdeen interpreted as pregnant tlie message of solicitude lor the development of Ireland’s resources in every direction. New South Wales and Westralia havo small exhibits. I A War Office circular states that I the reports of officers especially sent Ito America havo satisfied the Army Council as to the quality of .meat used. Tho conditions under which lit is prepared and canned by the firms supplying it are in every way I satisfactory.

Jay Gould boat Eustace Miles for the amateur tennis championship by 3 sots to 2. In- all 22 games were played. The contest arohsed immeilse interest. SUVA, May 7. A severe hurricane occurred at Fotuna Island on April 17th. Residences, stone churches, and cocoanut crops were levelled. Food is scarce. SYDNEY, May 7. At the Crick trial the reading of Close’s evidence and the Judge’s summing up occupied the whole of yesterday. The summing up was unfinished when the Court adjourned. Mr. Carruthers agrees there should be a reduction of taxation. His party intended to propose a considerable decrease in the burden. Island news states that five murders were recently committed by bushmen at Malaita. Two victims, children, were killed in the vicinity of the mission station. PERTH, May 7. j Four more Armenians from Batavia, describing themselves as missionaries, have been refused a landing, as they failed to pass tho education test. FREMANTLE, May 7. A branch of the Labor party is opposed to the founding of a Jewish colony. UNREST IN INDIA. CALCUTTA, May 6. Five native barristers at Rawalpindi have been arrested on a charge of inciting a riot and with arson and I seditious speeches. Bail was refused. The situation is oeing carefully watched. Incitement and violence are rigorously suppressed. REVOLT IN MOROCCO. MOROCCO, May C. The entire southern portion of MoI rocco, including .Marakesh, has reI belled against the Sultan, and proI claimed Muli Hofed, the Sultan’s • brother, as Sultan, and reinstated I the late governor of Marakesh, reI fusing to allow him to proceed to I Tangiers for trial for Dr. Manchamp’s murder. The prisoner con- v I nected with the murder has been reI leased. There are indications that I the whole country will, support the I coup d’etat at Marakesh.

ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATIONS. TOKIO, May 6. Thirty-three ringleaders, all holding prominent ranks of scholarships, have been arrested on suspicion of a plot to assassinate five Korean Ministers who signed the protectorate convention with Japan. LONDON, May 6. Reuter reports that a second attempt was made to assassinate President Cabrera of Guatemala. A mine was laid within a few yards of Cabrera’s house. FRANCE AND JAPAN. PARIS, May 6. Prince Tusliima, Japanese special envoy to Europe, is visiting Paris. To-day’s newspapers announce progress of the Franco-Japanese negotiations for a mutual guarantee regarding the Far Eastern possessions of the two countries. LONDON, May 6. The Franco-Japanese treaty is a corollary to the Anglo-Japanese convention. The British and Russian Governments were fully informed of the negotiations between France and Japan. THE NEW HEBRIDES. LONDON, May 6. Sir Joseph Ward nominated Mr. F. Fitchett to the Anglo-French New Hebrides Committee, to arrange details of the court, salaries, and other administrative matters. The Colonial Office suggested that Mr. Deakin should accept Mr. Fitchett as Australia’s representative. Mr. Deakin curtly declined, declaring that silica he had not been consulted originally, now he did not desire'to assume responsibility for a Convention which did not promise to succeed, being full of administrative difficulties, besides introducing tliq dual system of jurisdiction. .