YESTERDAY’S CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2203, 5 October 1907, Page 1

YESTERDAY’S CABLES.

United Press Association—Copyright LONDON, Oct. 3. iMr. C. W. Beldairs, publisher ot the Naval Annual, speaking-at King’s Lynn, said the naval estimates had boon reduced by bight and a half •millions in three years. The decrease had been met by a German increase. He 'would . support the Government as long as they adhered to the two-power > standard, but if tlioy broke their promises ho would fight them, since it was hotter that Lord Tweedmouth be a fallen Minister than that Britain fall from her estate. Reuter states from Berlin that the Vossiclio Zeitung learns that during next session of the Reichstag a Bill

will bo introduced authorising tlio Federal Council to accord Britain and her colonies most favored treatment

for a further term of years. Tho Vossiclio Zeitung adds: “Whether tho Council will be in a position to make use of this right to- tho extent hitherto must depend upon the degree in which the new Australian tariff will affect German imports as compared with those from tho Motherland.

Owing to tho attempts of Clark and Company’s strikers a.t Paisley to intimidate the Ferguslie workers, Coates and Co. .have closed the Ferguslie thread mills until protection is- available, hut all hands will bo paid. Twelve thousand are idle.

Lord Brampton is ill and in a critical condition.

Mr. Bertram Mackeunal, an Australian sculptor, has been commissioned to execute statuary for the St. Paul’s cross. Tho Board of Trade returns show

more industrial disputes involving the loss of anoro working days in 1900, when the boom set in, than in any of tho previous five years, but only 17 per cent, of the workers involved obtained an increase of wages. The four-masted barejuo Dundonald, which left Sydney oil February 17tli for Falmouth, has been posted as missing. Tho four-masted barquo Silverhorn, which left Newcastle for Iquiquo on July 17, is 60 days overdue. Mr. Lloyd George, interviewed, said the Government would early deal effectively with Welsh disestablishment unless tlio Peers precipitate an appeal to the country oil the constitutional issue.

Tlio Bishop of Manchester, speaking at tho Church Congress at Yarmouth, argued that the country did not desire secular education, despite the vote of the Trades Union Congress.

•Referring to Sir IV. Lyne’s latest proposals, Mr Ramsay M'icDonald, interviewed, declared the Australian labor party was making .a profound mistake in concentrating attention upon nominal wages instead of getting hold of means of production like the land and starting tobacco and irbn works, which prevent the agg-e----•gation of property und accelerate a development of Australia. Lord Curzon has issued an appeal for at- least a quarter of a million pounds- to assist tho needs of Oxford University.

Lord liilfour, of .Burleigh, President of the British Constitution Association, appeals to political part'os who wish to uphold individual liberty toj join the Association in the work of. 1 combating the political socialist. The. Government has purchased for £20,000 the Jnverlimer estate, Argylslilire, with a-view to attempting experimental timber growing. i PARIS, Oot. 3. -Owing to hooligans’ terrorism in Paris; citizens have organised a force n/i-med with revolvers, truncheons, handcuffs, and dark lanterns for the purpose of lynching gangs of evilcWers.

j .BRUSSELS, Oot. 3. 'Loyson, the absconding cashier, lias been arrested at Brussels.

BERLIN, Oct. 3,

jA pamphlet charging Prince Butolv with immorality has been traced to! a .powerful clique, who .are plotting for his overthrow. Prince Buloiv is prosecuting Herr Brand, tlio nominal author.

New docks -aro being constructed at Wilhelmshaven, with a view to it becoming naval headquarters instead of; Kiel.

ST. PETERSBURG, Oct. 3.

{Eighteen members of the fighting organisation of the Russian social democratic labor party have received sentences of from four to seven years’ penal servitude for provoking the .mutinies at Sveaborg and Kronstadt. Sixteen were acquitted. Malosemoff, a mining engineer, received a. sentence of eight years in ,tlie same connection.

ROME, October, 3. An inquiry into the methods of the Genoa. Courts dealt .with a series of charges against shady financiers, and .resulted in eight Judges being relieved of their fiuictipns.Thoy will lie prosecuted in the • High Court. MOROCCO, Oct. 3.

iAbelli! Aziz sent Tazzi, Finance Minister, to Paris to pawn liis jewels. | ... MEXICO, Oct. 3. By a landslip in Victoria quarries 2 7. were -killed. One hundred are still buried

PBiETDR'IA, Oct. 3. Under 200 of 13,00 Asiatics in tho Transvaal have been registered under tiie registration ordinance. . NEW YORK, Oct.. 3. Washington telegrams laniticipato that Pearl-harbor, Honolulu, will-be-come a naval base for the Central Pacific, and Guam and Subig Bay will become fortified stations. President Roosevelt, . addressing 10,000 persons at St. Louis, after emphasising .the enormous importanceof improving facilities for transportation ' on the Mississippi, stated that the construction of the Panama Canal was proceeding apace. At the present rate of progress actual digging would be completed within five or six years. Unless America was prepared to abandon tho Monroe doctrine • arid the Canal -and be content with tilie role of a weak and timid nation, she must steadily build and maintain a rarea-t fighting navj. He referred .to the departure of tho fleet- for the Pacific an December and implied that it was leaving on a training cruise. If the .present dual form of Government pre-

vented the control of groat corporations engaged in interstate business, then the constitution must he amended, but it was 'bettor first to try to effect a broad intorpretation of tlie existing power.

UIiEL/BQUiKN'E, Oct. 4

,Mr Be nit has delivered his Budge

T.lio revenue for the year was £8,313,241, whioli was £758,073 in excess of ■the estimates. The expenditure was £7,501,031, or £49,000 Jess than tlie estimate. Tlie surplus lor tlie year was £812,201. Of this amount £614,000 had been devoted to a reduction of the deficit, and £IIO,OOO towards •making good tiho deficiency m railwav rolling stock. -Ho estimated the revenue for the current year at Lev 017,782, and the expenditure at£o7,954 more than the 'preceding year, due to an increase of Gtl per day to certain employees and to increases in the price of coal, rails, timber, and metals. The Government intended to introduce a Hallway Bill creating a railway interest reserve fund limited to £300,000, and railway additions and 'improvement' fund, limited

to £200.000. ' . , Mr Jones, general superintendent of railway transportation, wiis shot whilst walking in Collins street. Ills condition is. serious. An exporter named Thomas hastfiecn arrested on a charge of attempted murder. Several tenders have keen received for the new mail contract. It is understood they include the Orient Company, Sir Jas. Laing and Sons, and an Australian shipping combination. In reference to a London cable Mr "Watson says .Mr lta-msav MacDonald’s criticism is seriously depreciated by his want of practical knowledge of local circumstances. Apparently ho ignores the fact that the Labor party failed to secure a majority at

tlie elections. The Council of the Kinplovers Association of Australia .are organising against the new protection movement. They claim that it embodies an attempt to take over control of business, reducing them .to the position of overseers

SYDNEY, Oct. 4. A storm at Teniterfield wrecked the aiLway engine slied. The show pavilon was unroofed. The storm also lam aged many residences. Air Crick obtained leave to appeal o tlie Privy Council against the delision of the Etdl Court in striking lim off the rolls. ADELAIDE, Oct. 1. Tlie Government have agreed to :ake a referendum of the Co|ineill ■lectors on all points at issue oil the franchise Dill between the two Houses.