YESTERDAY’S CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2199, 1 October 1907, Page 1

YESTERDAY’S CABLES.

United Press Association—Copyngh LONDON, Sept 29.

,->ir John 801 l is Loid Mayor elect

in a billiard match, 14,000 up, on ail oval billiard table, which is being played ait tilie National Sporting jLilub butneen AYoiss and Roborts, the lormer’s score stands at 7000 to Roberta’s (3200. The largest break so far bus been 15S by Roberts. Weiss’s remurkablo play is attracting mnoh attention. Nobel’s Company, at Glasgow, liavo agreed With English and Continental milkers to raise the price of ■ explosives 20 per cent. Bishop Ingram, Bishop of London is having a royal reception in Now: fork. Ho preached a bold sermon to millionaires at a church in W ill street district. The wool sales aro animated. Prices ire very firm. The fleece portion of Longburn clips realised 113 d, Mangnhape 113 d. There has been catalogued to date 40,579 bales, and sold 38, 830 hales.

Wheat: Australian cargoes firm. Fe\v offering. Victorian SeptcmberOetober shipment, held firm at 41s, Australian spot 40s 6d to 41s Gd, Now Zealand ■nominally 38s to 39s /or shortberried, 39s to 40s for longberried. Butter: Quiet, though firm. A few sales choicest Victorian. New South Wales salted at 112 s, unsalted up to 116 s. No demand for stored butter. Bradford wool market is strong, with improved inquiry. Forties lGld, forty-sixes 17-ld, common sixties 28d, super 29d. _ At the London wool sales there is keen competition for all description in sellers’ favor. The “Gear” clip sold at llid. Sheepskins: At the sales 4400 bales of Australasian were offered and practically all sold. There was a full attendance and fair competition as compared -with last auctions; merino combings _ were a halfpenny dearer and morino clothings unchanged. Fine crossbreds a farthing dearer, coarse crossbreds a halfpenny lower.

BRUSSELS. Sept. 29. Loyson, cashier of the Bank of Brussels, has absconded. His defalcations amount to 300.000 francs. BERLIN, Sept. 29.

Prince Carl Thurn, of Taxis, while “larking” with other officers at Potsdam, broke his neck through sliding down bannisters. Obituary: The Grand Duke <>f Baden.

PARIS, Sept. 29. General Drude reports that four out of ten tribes have fully submitted.

■MADRID, Sept. 29. Terrible floods have oeourrod i'l Malaga distriot. Twelve thousand jeople are homeless. Twelve villages !»ave been destroyed. _ 0110 hundred and eight people perished. ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. 29. The newspaper Russ hints that since Russia has abandoned all dea of an out [fit towards the Indian Ocean, compensation for this painful renunciation is likely to be pveu in a further convention with Britain concerning the Near East and Constantinople. MONTE CARLO, Sept. 29. The examination of the Goolds has concluded.

NEW YORK, Sept. 29. Yachtsmen in America, resent the New York Club’s decision in regard to Sir Thomas Lipton’s challenge. A syndicate at Boston is organising to offer a new cup, and proposes to race Sir Thomas Liptori for it under international rules in any kind of boat ho chooses.

CALCUTTA, Sept. 29. A sensation 'has been caused Here at: the arrest of A. C. Bauneree, a leading barrister, on a charge of sedition.

SYDNEY, Sept. 30. Air. Carruthcrs is suffering from a nervous complaint, and has been ordered a long holiday.

BRISBANE, Sept. 30. A wharf laborer at Cairns has beon attacked with the plague. A man has been arrested at Glen Innes, New South Wales, on a charge of burning a woolshed near Gunnaniulla in 1894. He. admits the crime. Ho also confessed to murdering a man wanted as a witness in connection with the burning of tho shed, and who mysteriously disappeared.