YESTERDAY’S CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2147, 1 August 1907, Page 4

YESTERDAY’S CABLES.

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LONDON, July 30. ; In .the House of Connnono tlio Evicted Tenants Bill passed tlio report A. U. Jones has accepted :tlic captaincy of the Mavylehono team, visitinj." Australia. Li. the LandjJudges’ Court, Dublin. Justice Itoss. in sentencing ; six men to three month.' imprisonment L„. interfering with, the receiver ill iht* ,nanngom~nl or an citato in tyoj?common, hy expelling sheep, strongly ui-'cil that cattle-driving could easily be ended if lh.> Estates Commissioner withheld. advances tor huiil:.p.ui;chascd in places where intimidation,, was practised. He added that the Commissioners might he restrained. J hoy . . 5 ,,. ; ... ... ;i : ., mil a, and wen hound .to obey, it was unthinkable tiuit public money should be used for furthering a conspiracy against property. . In the second test match against South Africa ,* England their first innings were all out tor 7(L Faulkner took six wickets for 17. South Africa’s first innings realised 110, and England’s second innings 25 for no wickets. The House of Lords discussed Congo affairs. The horrors wore denounc'd on all sides. Lord Fitzmaurico urged patience, expressing a hope that the Belgian Parliament in the event of annexation of tlio Congo Vould obtain real effective control, winch would lead to radical reforms. Ho emphasised the danger of precipitous action. Lord Lansdowno concurred with Lord Fitzmaurice’s views.

Tlio now Cunard liner Lusitania, on her steam trial made 25 3-sth knots. Mr. G. Brockman, of Western Australia, delivered an address before til-! Liverpool Chamber of Cpnimorco on cotton growing and wool growing in Western Australia. Sir Alfred Jcnes recommended the establishment of agricultural boards in order to finance planters and purchaso cotton. Evidently there was a good field in Australia for young Englishmen with capital. Reuter reports that fifteen soldiers in Ecuador were court-inartialled on a charge of pa -ticipating in a political plot against President Alfaro. Consols are at 82J.

Financial papers attribute the weakness .of consols to the absence of a demand for the low interest-bearing securities. They declare the public are’ beginning to realise the true value of consols as an investment, and are no longer willing to take thorn unless they show a reasonable yield. Lord Elgin’s Commission appointed to enquire into the Scottish Churches’ dispute, estimated that tlio United Ere*. Church Funds amount to £1,354,720. The Commission allotted £31,000 to the “Wee Frees,” besides wliat was awarded before. It is estimated the United Frees lost altogether half a million. The opinion is expressed that the Scotland Commissioners were lavishly generous to the Wee Frees. The Rev. J'. R. Campbell has been invited to stand for Cardiff in tlicv Socialist interest. Speaking at Trcdgar he declared the first great commandment was to get hold of the land.

Five hundred Belfast dockers and one thousand carters have struck for higher wages. Non-unionists from Liverpool have replaced tlie dockers. Owing to unrest and intimidation at. Belfast troojjs are assisting in preserving order. The discontented police have temporarily resumed duty, though the leaders threaten to call out 95 per cent of the force unless their grievances are redressed. The Times' regards the prospects of a permanent International Prize Court of Appeal at Tlio Hague, and the American proposals for the establishment of a permanent Court of Arbitration, as most promising. BERLIN, July 30. Word lias been received that Mahomedan natives at Adamvva, in the Cameroons, attacked the German Residency at Garcia. The raiders were repulsed. A German steerable military balloon circled .around the Reichstag building, sailed along the Unterden-lir-.den, and repeatedly circled. the Imperial Castle, at a level speed of 1-i miles against the wind. ST. PETERSBURG, July 30. The Grand Duke Nicholas warned General Nikiforoff, who tries revolutionaries charged with attempting to murder tho Czar, himself, and M. Stolypin, that death was the only punishment suitable for crime against the Imperial family. THE HAGUE, July 30. At tho Peace Convention Britain a.id Germany have agreed to the principle of a permanent International Prize Court of Appeal, to include technical naval assessors, appeal thereto lying from the highest court in the country wherein the case was first tried.

NEW YORK, July 30. An explosion, attributed to the Italian Black Hand organisation, preceded a fire at a New Fork tenement house. Twenty-one persons, Italians, were burnt to death. Twenty were injured,

CAPETOWN, July 30. The mine owners of the Rand declare that while they agreed to reengage skilled machine men at exceptionally good wages, they have not conceded anything regarding the number of machines each man supervises. They will merely re-engage as many strikers as possible. Many will still remain unemployed. The Government offers them prospectors’ licenses.

■ TOKIO, July 30. . V lscount Hayaslii declines to consider a new treaty with the United ota-tes, based on the exclusion of Japanese laborers.

SYDNEY, July 31. ~final deposit has been paid in the Towns v. Webb match.. A contingent of New Zealanders, who arrived by the s.s. Wimmera, journeyed in the Parramatata river and vitro ssel the training operations. Webb’s work consisted of two journeys over i ii fu H ColiriS P> being paced by Hi itcbeli. Local critics declare he’ showed much improvement on previous runs, the smooth water suiting him better. Some of the . ex-cham lions who were present freely oxprenel praise at Webb’s pace and nnqiiestionablo staying powers. Town’s backers are jileased at tlieir man s ion." and a good race is expected. Charles Siddells, a Wanganui publican, a passenger by the Wimmera from New Zealand died just prior Ui the arrival of the steamer. Deceased was unwell when lie’ began the v oyage. On Sunday evening lie was caught trying to escape from a porthole in the lavatory. The ship’i officers burst the door and seized him by the legs just as he was disappearing. They hung on while the vessel-was stopped. A line was lowered and he was . hauled oil board again. His condition was serious, and ho gradually sank. Siddells was a prominent supporter of the sculler Webb.

’The Governor, Sr Harry Rawson, was installed as Grand Master of til.-. Masonic Grand Lodge at an imposing ceremony. The State Arbitration Court award substantially betters wages and conditions to shopkeepers all round. A murder has taken place at 1 Quirindi. George Tofft, while under the influence of -liquor, visited the horn, of his sweetheart, a girl named Fletcher. They quarrelled. He induced the girl to accompany him. to the rear of the house, where ho shot her twice, and in addition battered in her head. Meeting an aquaintance, Tofft said he had done for Fletcher, and added he wanted to kill her father and then have a feed and do for liimsolf. • Tofft is missing. Jealousy was the cause of the tragedy.

. -1 he fire on tlio French steamer is out-. The damage was chiefly confined to the sail locker and number 1 and 2 foreholds, where considerable cargo was damaged by smoke and water. Several firemen were overcome by fumes, but soon recovered. The cargo is being discharged. Sir H. 11 awson laid the foundat ion stone of the Young Men’s Christian Association’s new building, which cost, until the fittings £34,000. The shop assistants’ award embodies an advance of about 30 per cent, in wages generally ; in some instances 40 to 50 per cent. The salary for male assistants of nine years experience is fixed at £2 10s. and females not less than 2/s 6d. The hours' arc 53 per week. The employers’ representative at the Arbitration Court dissented from the award relating to remuneration, declaring the minimum irates were excessive, especially for females. .If ultimately adopted and made the common rule, they would tend to great loss, and. in somo cases, to the ruin of business people. BRISBANE, July 30. The Legislative Assembly met today. Mr. Ividston, the Premier, announced that the Government had received from the Labor party a promise of general support, and under the circumstances the Government would continue to carry on. J In the Assembly Mr. Bowman, lead-1 er of the Labor party, stated, at the I

Premier’s suggestion, that the par 1 had ngroed to support tho Government. So long aB they wero not asked to support anything conflicting with tho labor platform, they, would give tlio Govornmont gonoral support, while maintaining froodom to criticise any of its measures.

NORFOLK ISLAND, July 31. Arrived : Warship Prometlius, from Auckland. She experienced a heavy southerly gale. MELBOURNE, July 31. Mr. W. H. Moillo has been appointed to a professorship vacant by the death of Professor Molesworth, Tho Federal House, nuide good progress with tho Bounties Bill. Bonuses on hemp, llax, mohair, cotton seed, and linseed wore adopted. Olives were struck out. When the House met Sir W. Lyno announced that Sir John Forrest, tho Federal Troasuror, had resigned irom die Cabinet. Subsequently Sir John Forrest explained that acting consisrontly with tlio platform outlined to ins constituents at last oloction lie could no longer follow the policy of cue Government, tic had always intended to resign if tlio Government continued to roly for support on tho Labor party. - His resignation was not duo to any Cabinet friction or Opposition intriguo. Ho intended to take liis seat on tho'cross Opposition boi.clics. In consequoiico of Sir Johr Forrest’s rotiromont, tlio portfolios have boon ro-arriuiged, Sir W. Lyno taking tlio Troasury, Mr. Austin Chapman Customs, and Mr. Maugher has been iippoiutod Postmaster-Gen-eral

In tho House, Sir John Forrest, referring to his resignation, said it was reasonable the Labor party should resent keeping him in office on a good fat isalary after all he had done to defeat them. It was tho only honorable course ho could take, even at tho loss of office anil prestige. Ho was not going to bring discredit upon himself, as he felt ho would do if lie hung on to place and power. Mr. Watson, in an interview, said tho only matter for surprise was at Si.- John Forrest holding on so long, considering his attitude to tho Labor party. His resignation cleared tlio situation.