GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2133, 16 July 1907, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

United Press Association—Copyright LONDON, July 14. In a cricket match Surry defeated the South Africans by So runs. Har row beat Eaton by 79 runs. Bird of Harrow, scored 100 not out and 131 Received Julv 15, 11.20 p.m. LONDON. July 15. Reuter’s Seoul correspondent reports that 24 men were discovered in the ladies’ apartment at the Korean Palace. It is believed they intended to assassinate tho Emperor and his Ministers. Received July 15, 10.33 p.m. LONDON, July 15. King Edward and Queen Alexandra had a great recejrtion at Cardiff, where they opened the -Alexandra deck, which.is half a mile long and 1000 ft wide. In honor of the occasion knighthood was conferred on the Lord Mayor, Mr. Crossman, who is a prominent trade unionist. King Edward announced the early establishment of a decoration bearing his name for miners and quarrymen who voluntarily endangered their own lives to rescue others. NEW YORK, July 15. The Interstate Commerce Commission in Washington has reported drastioallv against the efforts of the great railwavs controlled by E. H. Harrimen to secure a monopoly of the Pacific railway and steamboat traffic. It. is expected that President Roosevelt will direct the prosecution of the group. OTTAWA, July 14. Three thousand Japanese are being brought to Canada to construct the Grand Trunk Pacific railway. ' i . PARIS, July 14.. The Chamber of Deputies will be asked to vote £12,000 to assist a new French Antarctic expedition. Madame Guerin has been sentenced to three years’ interment in a French colony in connection with an attempt to murder Dr. Herbert in Paris. BRISBANE, July 15. . Reports by the Island steamer state that the island r.f Malaita, New Hebrides, is in a vary unsettled state Some of the vessels engaged in distributing returned inlanders from Queensland report that in one part of the island two returned to the'r death. The reports are not officially confirmed. One trader witnessed a tribal fight on a big scale at Guoi.