GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2185, 14 September 1907, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

- Unitod Press Association —Copyright f LONDON, September 12. > T.lio Lusitania, at 6.80 on Wcdnes- ■ day morning, was 325 miles soutlii cast of Capo Rnco, and expects to , reach Sandy Hook at 4.30 on Friday : morning, but even if six hours Intor ' she will break all records. ' The Times says tho Lusitania is working perfectly, and without boing i pushed mado 575 knots on tho second day out and 570 on tho third day. Received September 13, 8.14 p.m. Router confirms tho arrival of panic- stricken Kishinoff and Odessa Jews nt Pruth. Roumaiiia iB not admitting them. NEW YORK, September 12. Tho Luonnia yesterday afternoon was 1189 miles east uf Sandy Hook, approximately ten hours behind tho Lusitania. The Lusitania was 135 miles eastward of Nantucket last evening. CAPETOWN, September 13. A party of armed natives at Nkandhla, Zuiiiland, hold up a mail runner, demanding tho post-bag. Tho runner disabled one of liis assailants and escaped. An unprecedented Constitutional situation lias arisen in South Africa owing to the Legislative Counoil of Capo Colony during the discussion on tho Appropriation Bill in committee resolving by 11 to 10 that tho Chairman leavo tho chair, thus blocking supply. Tho Treasurer to-day moves . that tho Council again go into committee and rosuine consideration of , the Bill. Tho parties in tho Council are equal, but as Mr. Ross, Progres- , sivo, presides in Committco tho Op- ( position will then liave a majority. r The Premier, if necessary, will ask ( the Assembly whether it will tolerato f the Council’s interference with its 1 privileges. . ]

DURBAN, September i 3. Tho Assembly read a second time the Land Bill s taxing unimproved values Id in tho £l.