GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2093, 30 May 1907, Page 4

GENERAL CABLES.

Uuitod Press Association —Copyright LONDON, May 28.

The -Now Zealand bowlers defeated Streatham Constitutional Club by 48 shots to 22 in three rinks. Tho tralians defeated Streatham by 74 to 45. ■ Tho Rev. Marcus Dods has been elected Principal of the New College, Edinburgh,, in succession to tho late Dr. Rainy. Tho Rovs. D. B. Smith and Crowe, of Porth, are attending tli6 Assembly of tho Church of Scotland. Ml. Crowe described tho condition of things in tho north-west of AA r estoin Australia as shameful, because white men wero dragging tlio blacks down. Somotimes tho conduct of whites rendered missions to tho heathen almost impossible. TOKIO, May 28.

Tlic newspapers in Tokio are uneasy lest China’s policy for recovery of national rights should create ai uuti-foreign mood, defying Govern' nient control

PARIS, May 28.

Owing to the withdrawal of subsidy, the Messageries Maritimes Company lias ceased regular services between Bordeaux, Senegal, Brazil, La Plata. France will now pay the Elder Dempster Pacific Royal Mail Lino £60,000 per annum for carrying the mails. BERLIN, May 28.

Tho great bell of Savoyarde, subscribed by the people of Saxony for the church of tho Sacred Heart, Montmartre, has been irretrievably cracked by vandals. It cost several thousand pounds sterling. • Forty English newspaper editors and writers, including several of eminence, aro visiting Berlin, Munich, Frankfort, Dresden, and ' Cologne as guests of a committee representing all sets of politicians and society. MELBOURNE, May 29.

Various complaints having been made as to errors in press cables from England, inquiries show that tho Indian lines are chiefly to blame. The Indian Government has been communicated with. . BRISBANE, May 29.

A representative deputation of sugar growers waited on Sir .John Forrest and urged the Government to introduce suitable labor for the sugar plantations. Tho deputation agreed that the abolition of the bounty of £3 and excise of £4, with retention of the import duty of £6, would be better for tho industry.