GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2174, 2 September 1907, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

United Press Association —Copyright LONDON. August 30.

Senator Pulsford, of Sydney, n member of the Commonwealth Parliament. writing to the Times, suggests that Mr. Lucas’s department of the Colonial Oflico bo re-named the Sister Countries Department. ■lndians in the Transvaal petitioned King Edward to disallow the Indian Immigration Bill, which permits the deportation of passive resistors, and to ask the Imperial Exchequer for compensation if disallowance is impossible. The Daily Telegraph, in its chief loading article, makes a strenuous protest against the ignorance and fanaticism wherewith the Australian tariff is being discussed in the Ministerial press here, with a risk of caus- • ing it to be withdrawn. It says the proposed preference is a substantial boon of immediate value and enormous potential advantage. The Telegraph contends that Australia has forewarned us of her intention to foster her own manufactures. She is absolutely entitled to foster her own, and is under no fiscal obligation to us. She gets tho same treatment as foreign countries here. It is obvious and inevitable that some lines of British trade will bo injured, but it is unwise and unbusinesslike to throw the helve after the hatchet, and say because we cannot hive everything wo will throw away all. Considering’ Australia’s purchases per head are twice Canada’s, and she is England’s best market, her offer of preference is as valuable as Canada’s. Tho paper concludes by hoping that cool counsels will prevail, and assures Mr. Deakin that tho matter is better understood than the Radical press suggests. Despite Mr. Asquith’s and Mr. Lloyd-George’s depreciation of the principle of preference, expressed at the Imperial Conference, it adds that Mr. LloydGeorgo’s judicious intervention might still save preference in Australia. Mr. John Morley lias appointed Gupta, a Hindu, and Bilgrams, a Mahommedan, the first Indian natives to become members of the Council of India. Both are important public servants.

The Bishop of Salisbury, in a Kerman at Trobridge Church, said marriages under the Deceased "Wife’s Sister Dill would never be acknowledged as lawful marriages within prohibited degrees. He exhorted his I'iearers to kee- the. law of the Church and not to use the li-borty the State . had given them. They would thus support wliat he believed would prove the unanimous view of the Bishops. Air. Redmond, speaking at Ballterry, declared the only chance of inducing the House of Lords to pass a comprehensive Land Bill would be Ireland’s inauguration of a strong menacing movement during the winter, showing that the people refuse to be trifled with. The country must cease fault-finding and proceed to business. The Times’ New York correspondent says it is asserted there are 8000 Japanese in British Columbia, and 2500 more are expected. People are almost panic-stricken at .the presence of what is believed to be some vaeno menace or organised attempt to make the Pacific Coast a yellow country. Various Oriental Exclusion Leagues in Canada and tho United States propose to hold a conference on the question. M. Nosse, Japanese Con--6111 at Ottawa, states only 3334 Japanese have entered British Columbia, mostly merchants and students proceeding to the United States, the net number of immigrants for Canada being 641.

VIENNA", August- 30. King Edward, who casually visited a cafe chantant at Marionbad. withdrew as a protest against indecencv in the performance. BUCHAREST, August 30. The King , has granted an amnesty to 800 persons concerned in. the recent Roumanian revolt, but refused to pardon 200 priests, officers, and murderers. CALCUTTA, August 30. Extreme Indian Nationalist papers unite in a chorus of fierce denunciations at Mr. Morley’s reforms, fearing they will tend to limit the influence of the lawyer element. Boycotting in Bengal is steadily ueclinmS‘ MELBOURNE, August 31. There is increasing acrimony between Sir W. Lyne and Sir John Forrest. The latter, while explaining his position in regard to the Braddon clause and old ago pensions, remarked on the position of the Government in the matter. Sir Wm. Lyne interjected-that the ex-Treasur--1 or must not presume to speak as a member of tho’ Government. Sir J. Forrest: “You want to repudiate the Prime Minister.” Sir Wm. Lyne: “I want to repudiate you.” Sir John Forrest: “Oh, you’re a humbug.” It is rumored that Mr. Bruce Smith aspires to the leadership of. the Opposition. . SYDNEY, August 30. Indications for the next wool season are highly favorable. There will he a strong demand for all descriptions of wool. Never before in the history o-f the trade.was the position sounder than it is to-day.