YESTERDAY’S CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2177, 5 September 1907, Page 4

YESTERDAY’S CABLES.

Onitod -l’rofls Association —Copyright LONDON, Sept. 0. A serious rise in the price of coal lias (revived agitation, ,in,-Britain for rc-imposit ion of the one shilling export duly. The larger exports aro em'harrassing manufacturers. . The Hilliard Association has a-bol-islu d ;!i ■ or; die -a linen. Obituary: Colonel 'W. Fitzgeorgo, the las! eon ol the Lito'Duko of Cam-

Mr Gladstone. Home Secretary, has liberated 800 minor olfemlors under the ne.v remission of sentences ".-e. «!: rehy well -behaved shortterm prisoners are libera tod on sewing live-sixths of their sentences. Harold Smyrk won the diving championship of England, comprising plain and trick diving. .Ur. C. IT. Haves, Secretary of tlio Stock Exchange, Sydney, was banuqetted at Liverpool. In the course of a speech ho urged that England should populate Australia and socure a greater hold of trade before America reaped the advantage of tlio Panama Canal.

Air. Gennoll, a member of tlio House of Commons, speaking at Kells, urged the men of Meath to turn and rend the ranching demon by driving off cattle, thereby helping to pass a good Land Act in 1908.

Five hundred and twenty-one delegates, representing one million seven hundred thousand men, aro attending the fortieth annual Trades Union Congress at Hath. Twenty-six Labor members of the House of Commons are present. The Parliamentary Committee's report recommended members to support a miners' legal eight hours, reduction of hours of all trades, old age pensions, legislation dealing with the unemployed problem, compulsory Stnto insurance, land nationalisation, and amendment of the property laws, and the legal restriction of systematic overtime. Mr. A. H. Gill, member of the House of Commons, presiding, advanced old age pensions as the first plank of the Labor platform, the pensions to be universal, non-contributory, and nondiscriminating. He declared it was the Chancellor’s duty to find the money from sources from which it could be legitimately stopped. PARIS, Sept. 3.

French naval authorities aro experimenting with a turbine torpedo of unjirecedented speed. It carries much greater charge of explosives than any other. A Customs inspector at Paris and tlio senior partner of a firm of carriers, and a clerk have been arrested for defrauding the Customs of £BO,000 to £-10,000. NEW YORK, Sept. 3.

Tho United States spent 80 million pounds sterling in acquiring and maintaining the Philippine Islands. Their upkeep costs six million pounds yearly. The Masters in Lunacy found Mrs. Eddy sane. Her estate of £200,000 is in tho hands of trustees. Mrs. Eddy’s son declares the trusteeship to be satisfactory. ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. 3. Tho High Court at Abo, Finland, sentenced 10 Sveaborg mutineers to four years’ penal servitude. Two ringleaders were sentenced to six and five years’ respectively, and some others to three years. SYDNEY, Sejit. 1. The annual musketry returns show the rifle club movement is rapidly growing in strength in the State. MELBOURNE, Sept. 1. A conference of the Shipowners’ Federation and Federated Seamen’s Union of Australasia agreed that the overtime rate for seamen when a ship has been safely moored be raised to Is 3d, with a slight increase for boys. HOBART, (Sept. 1. In the Assembly the leader of the Opposition tabled a motion disapproving of the personnel of the Education Commission. The Premier accepted it as one of want of confidence.