YESTERDAY’S CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2178, 6 September 1907, Page 4

YESTERDAY’S CABLES.

United Press Association —Copyright LON'DONj Sept. 4. The Libor Congress at Bath, by 689,000: votes: to • 640,000*1 rejected a resolution discouraging employment on Sundays. Several speakers declared the resolution embraced the spirit of Sabbatarianism. ■lt would bo sull.ciei.it to t-v to restrict tbo hours of labor., securing the workers one day in seven, not necessarily Sunday. 'Mr. (till, Labor member of the House of Commons, advocated payment of os a week pension to all over (10 years of ago. He suggested t,hat the Clianedlor of the Exchequer should tax unearned increments of landlords, milling royalties, and increase the duties on great estates, to connection with the report on unemployment, several delegates violently attacked Mr. John Burns, President of the Bocal Government Board, describing him as. a lost soul. An animated discussion on tlio relation of the Labor party and trades unions took-place. It was decided to continue to try to attain comploto Parliamentary unity. A conference of the Women s Trade Union League has opened at Bath. It was announced that 110,000 work-

ing women had become trades union ists. A resolution was carried condemning the Government’s weak, confused Bill dealing with laundr.es. There is a great outcry m the Radical press against tlio Government of India selecting Mr. Cottes, ihe Dailv "Mail’s Simla correspondent, to collect and supply tlio officials of India with a daily Indian news service, to cost £lO6 monthly. A court-iivunbial reprimanded Captain Browning for default in stranding the battleship Commonwealth, but dismissed a charge of negligence. Consols are at Sl*. N'EW YORK, Sept.. 4. The New York Sun thinks that President Roosevelt lias made some agreement with the Kaiser, whereby the integrity of tlio Atlantic seaboard will be guarded by the German fleet during the absence of the American navy in the Pacific. The Sun remarks that President Roosevelt ought to inform the nation as to t-lie real object of this titanic project, as no one believes it is merely a battleship cruise.

PRETORIA, Sept. 4. The Transvaal Government propose to work a tin mine at Riotoirburg ill order to employ Rand unemployed and prevent the big mining group securing it. CAPETOWN, Sept. 4. The Cape Parliament passed a Meat Bill designed to prevent cold storage companies from throttling the South African meat consumption trade. BERLIN, Sept. 4. The theft of a German secret artillery book, containing instructions regarding the use of the new breechloading gun, led to the arrest of two non-commissioned officers at Coblentz and Metz; also two civilians on the frontier in possession of compromising documents. A plot is suspected to supply France with the secrets. TOIv-10, Sept. 4.

Leading Japanese newspapers welcome the Anglo-Russian agreement, believing it- considerably lightens Japanese responsibility regarding the security of tile 'lndian frontier. OTTAWA, Sept. 4. A train on the Canadian-Pacific •railway mas derailed thirty miles from' Toronto. 'Six persons were killed and fontjj injured. A message from Winnipeg reports that t'he'-Mikkelsen Anglo-American Arctic expedition has been lost. - ANT WERP, Sept. 4. A revival of strike troubles here led to violent scenes. The strikers attacked English and German blacklegs. The-police-freely used their revolvers, and charged the mob with drawn swords. Ultimately the civic guards restored order. The strikers set fire to a timber warehouse. The fire was extinguished, but great damage was done. MOROCCO, Sept. 4.

Arab horsemen boldly attacked a French reconnoitring party. Many Moors wore killed. Five French soldiers wore wounded. 'General Drude lias received considerable reinforcements at Casablanca. MELBOUP INf7’s<> d . 5. In the Senate Mr Finley complained that the Standard Oil Company had raised the price of korosono 3d per gallon since the tariff was introduced. He urged enforcement of the anti-trust law. The Vice-presi-dent stated the Government wore inquiring, and if it was revealed there had been a breach of the anti-trust law, the Standard Oil Company would be made to suffer.

The Navigation Commission presented its final report to the Federal Government. The main recommendation is that only British subjects shall bo employed on vessels registered in Australia. A majority of the Commission recommend that the coastal trade of the Commonwealth ho reserved to ships on the Australian register, or conforming with Australian conditions and licensed to trade on the coast. Bri/tisfli mail steamers carrying passengers to bo exempt from reservation, pending construction of the railway between Western and South Australia. The Commission also recommend that subsidised foreign ships be prohibited from participating in coastal trade. An endorsement is given the Imperial Navigation Conference’s proposal for exemption from now conditions involving structural alterations as regards accommodation, officers, and crow, of all vessels built prior to the enactment of such conditions. Hides are in very fair demand, at late rates. Supplies are very moderate. The Postmaster-General states there is little chance of the Penny Postage Bill passing this session. The departmental officials strongly oppose it. owing to the prospective loss of revenue involved.

A new agreement between the Steamship Owners’ Federation and Federated Seamen’s Union has been signed. It takes effect from September Ist next. No alterations are made in the ordinary rates of pay, but the overtime rates are increased, as previously cabled. Some alterations have been made in regard to holidays. SYDNEY, Sept. 4. At the wool sales there was brisk competition, and a very" strong market. Greasies touched 12Jd. scoureds 23$d. A private cable announces the safety of the schooner Charlotte, reported to be missing from Tonga. Fifteen clippers and 76 wheelers at the Pelaw main'colliery have been

charged with leaving, their employment with out reasonable leave. The clippers wore fined £2 and costs, and the wheelers £3. All the wheelers decided to go to goal. English advices state that Professor David, of Sydney University, has arranged to -accompany Loiutennnt Shackloton on his Antarctic expedition to King -Edward the Seventh Land.