GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2186, 16 September 1907, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

United Press Association—Copyright LONDON, September 13. The King’s proclamation declaring New Zealand a Dominion was publicly recited from the steps of the Royal Exchange hv Colonel Kearns, Common Crier of the City of London. The Rev. F. B. sleyer has conceived a scheme to unite all the Free Churches of the Empire in one Free Church Federation. After conducting a national ministry mission in the United Kingdom, Denmark, and Germany, he visits South Africa, Australasia. and Canada. CHRISTIANA, September 13. str. 55’ellman, after one ascent, was compelled to abandon his balloon, by which lie hoped to reach the North Pole, and has returned to Tromsoe. ROME, September 13.

Italy and the Argentine have entered into a treaty of general arbitration. The exceptions include cases affecting provisions of the constitution or the question of nationalities. CALCUTTA, September 13. According to the newspaper Englishmin .the deportation of the agitator Laj Patria was due to officers informing their colonels that the troops locally were doubtful if ho was allowed to continue his speeches, and unless the Punjab Land Colonies Bill was vetoed. The Government was unwilling to .veto the Bill, but Lord Kitchener insisted. The sentence of half a year’s imprisonment passed on the Calcutta extremist .leader, Bepin Chandra, caused prolonged disorder in the streets, the crowd .attacking the police and also hissing the chief presiding magistrate. BENGAL, September 13. There have been numerous assaults on Europeans in Eastern Bengal. Hundreds witnessed an assault, yet the police were unable to secure cii(lbiicc. BRISBANE, September 14. While a watchman was going the rounds at the Queensland National Bank he discovered a man hiding in the hank. The latter seized the watchman, but after a struggle the watchman got his revolver free and shot the intruder in the temple. He was taken to the hospital.