YESTERDAY'S CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2179, 7 September 1907, Page 4

YESTE RDAY'S CABLES.

United Press Association—Copyright , -JT '""V ONI) on } Sopt. 5. Mr. Redmond was continually interrupted whilst addressing a Homo Rule - mcf'liiig at. Dublin House. The Sinn Feiiiners outsido voted by aeehunution no confidence in the lri-h PnrliiimetiiHry patry, ~i,d tj-ir'l to ‘tiii thu. Mansion Hume. Many were injured during i oniiiels with the p'oliro.' Three were removed to the hospital. The police protoeted Ihe Nationalist members of the House of Commons as they emerged trom the Mansion House. Mi'.ryleboue heat South Africa by sin inning: anil 9 runs. Plaving against Leicester Hobbs made 96, completing bis 2000 runs for the present season. Obituary: Edward Hagerup Groin, musieal composer, aged 04. He died suddenly. A twin-screw submarine, in course of construction at Barrow, lias two torpedo tubes forward and one aft. The yacht Eros, belonging to Mr. AY. It. P. Houston, a member of tho House of Commons for Liverpool, sank in the Channel, after colliding with a collier. Lord Byron, who was Air. Houston’s guest, was asleep in the cabin, and was nearly drowned. He only escaped by climbing over tho collier’s bow. The Adelaide Steamship Company’s Urilla has been launched at Aliddloborough. The AVar Office are inviting tenders, to close on January 13tli, for tho supply of SG7,OOOIb of tinned beef and mutton.

Air. Haldano, Secretary for War, has ordered a supply of Army horseshoes from America after several British firms hail installed special plants to cope with orders. One firm has been compelled to dismiss twenty workmen. ANTWERP,- Sopt, 5. Timber fires, started by tho strikers continue to rage. Damage of several million francs lias been done. Two streets are threatened The water supply is defective. Fire brigades from Brussels and Ghent, and a battalion of engineers are helping to subdue the flames. ST. PETERSBURG, Sept, 5. General Novitsky, wlio has been appointed Prefect of Odessa, lias been instructed to compel the cessation of outrages practised by the f un of the Russian People. Peasants at Alalcarieff burnt all t seVeral peasants who as dupes of revolutionry agitators, attempted *epeated incendiarism. Peasants murdered several innocent people inspected of political intrigues THE HAGUE, Sept. 5.

Venezuela has withdrawn from the Peace Convention without announcing her reason for doing so. Iho Convention in committee, adop' e-1 a list of 24 subjects as universally susceptible of roferenece to arbitration without reservations concerning vital interests and honor. BERLIN, Sept, 5. Alisereants loosened rails and wrecked a train near Berlin, imagining tho Grand Duke Nicholas of Russia was travelling to the German naval manoeuvres. Eight passengers were injured. PARIS, Sept. 5. A crowd at Marseilles, mistaking' an interpreter quitting a tribunal for a prisoner charged with murder, shot him dead, and mortally wounded two others. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept, 5. Local papers state Prince Arepai, of Tahiti, has arrived at Honolulu, and married Queen Liliokolni. MELBOURNE, Sopt, 6. The Defence Act’ Amendment Bill reached its second stage in tlio Senate. It provides that all boys over 12 and under 19 years of age" shall be compelled to join military or naval cadet corns.

BRISBANE, Sept. 6. A cyclist named Birtles has started on a trip across and around Australia. ADELAIDE, Sept. G. It is estimated that the lambing will be 60 to 80 per cent. The Budget showed that the past year ended witli a surplus of £297,673. Among the prime causes of the surplus are the increases of nearly 6000 in population. Marriages were the largest 1 ever recorded. The development of milling and agricultural interests was an important contribution to the prosperity. The Government has arranged, to get daily wheat quotations from Mark Lane, London, as a check to private quotations. Whether the Government will go as far as handling wheat will depend on circumstances. SYDNEY, Sept. 6.

Mr. Carruthers estimates that the new tariff lias reduced the purchasing value of the sovereign to I7s 6d. Professor David accompanies the Antarctic expedition, at Leiutenant Shackleton’s special request. He considers that the prospects of reaching the Polo are good.

Another batch of the Pelaw Main mine strikers refused to pay their fines, and went to gaol. Mr. Carruthers proposes to extend old age pensions to invalids and crii>ples.

H.M.S Powerful lias sailed for Colombo, with time-expired crews. Britain’s score ill the postal rille match was 836. Judging by the 11011reccipt of scores from Canada and the Transvaal it- is presumed that they did not. compete, and that Now South Wales with a score of 900 won. The wheat market, in sympathy with that of London, is very firm at 4s lid to Is 2d offered, and 4s 3d wanted. HOBART, Sept. 6. The Assembly adopted a resolution allowing civil servants to participate in politics, provided they did not criticise their departments.