YESTERDAY’S CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2164, 21 August 1907, Page 4

YESTERDAY’S CABLES.

Jnited Press Association —Copyright LONDON, August 19. Pinkerton, homl of the famous American detective agency, died on the voyage to Europe. Hayes and Pane luivo accepted invitations to join the r.iaryU'bono team. Gotiise O.m, an actress in Ijondon, married the lion. J. K. L. Pardo Duller, Lord Churston's sou and heir. BERLIN, August 19.

Dr. Spahn, loader of the Centro party in the Reichstag, evoked a chorus of approval in urging the construction of the largest possible warships in double quick time, at an additional cost of two million pounds sterling. Tartnkovor, a Sydney swimmer, won the international hundred motre race at Hamburg. N EW YORK, August 20. French, an aeronaut, left a balloon with a parachute at a height of half a mile at Newhaven, Connecticut. The parachute failed to open, and French was dashed to pieces. Air. Pierpont Morgan’s stud pedigree has been destroyed owing to an outbreak of anthrax. ST. PETERSBURG, August 19. Colonel Scluioetter, commander of the Bialystok station, has been assassinated. He was regarded as an abetter of the pogrom band. The Union of Russian Pooplo have petitioned the Czar to entirely exclude the Jews from the Duma, in order to obtain a genuinely Russian Duma. The Czar expresses approval of the proposal. MELBOURNE, August 20.

The Lord Mayor, on request, called a meeting protesting against the increase in Federal members’ salaries. Tho total production of land industries and mining manufactures in Victoria last year was £36,549,000 an increase of over 20 per cent, over 1906. BOMBAY, August 19. Arabinda Ghose, editor of the paper Bande Mataram, has been arrested on a charge of sedition. Ho was a Cambridge graduate.

King Edward, in a personal letter to Earl Alin to, Governor General, expresses anxious concern • in the progress of the plague. He said he was deeply moved when he thought of the misery endured by his Indian subjects with such silent patience. He earnestly prayed that further measures on the part of the Government would prove successful. Earl Alinto, in commending King Edward’s sympathy to the public, explained the ormous dijficulty in eradicating the scourge, largely owing to the people’s inability to understand the Government’s sanitary and hygiene measures. Earl Alinto added that a leading principle of the plague campaign is that the people must work out their own salvation. The Government cannot insist unreasonably upon acceptance of their ideas of modern hygiene. GEORGETOWN, August 19.

Captain Calder, commanding the British Guiana frontier force, crossed the border near Barima river and compelled a party of Venezuelans at the point of the revolver to surrender four thousand pounds of ballata rubber, said to have been obtained in a British forest. The Venezuelan consul at Georgetown has protested against the armed invasion. SYDNEY, August 20. The Chamber of Commerce adopted a resolution strongly protesting against the new tariff. The State elections are fixed for September 10th.

The President of the Chamber of Commerce, on behalf of the Associated Chambers of Commerce, forwarded a protest to Sir W. Lyne against the increase of Federal members’ salaries without consulting the people. Messrs McGowan and Flowers, the leaders of the New South Wales Labor party, have gone to Alelbourne to consult the Federal Labor leaders in reference to the new tariff. It is stated their visit is the result of much discontent among the working classes of New South "Wales at he large increase in duties, which is not unlikely to have an important effect in the forthcoming State elections. The New South Whies team to play the New Zealanders to-morrow is: Full-back, Headley; three-quarters, Stuntz,. Fry, Messenger, Devereux; halves, Cheadle, Holloway; forwards, Glanville, Dobbs, 'Courtney, Hennessey, Miablo, Pearce, Caun and Graves.

The Foritunatus fire occurred on July 30th. The vessel was abandoned next day. The steamer Forth rescued the crew and passengers in the vicinity of the wreck. One native fireman is missing. The cargo, included consignments for New Zealand ports.

A destructive fire in Sussex street gutted the large stores of Turner and Co., general warehousemen; Dudley, tent maker; Murray, printer; and damaged John Keep and Sons’ iron stores. The damage is very extensive. No estimate has yet been made.