YESTERDAY’S CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2211, 15 October 1907, Page 4

YESTERDAY’S CABLES.

Unitod Press Association.—Copyright LONDON, Oct. 13. Percy Grainger, an Australian pianist, received an enthusiastic reception >at Leeds festival, after playing .Greig's Concerto twice. . . A final estimate of the British wheat crop is 95.2 per cent. ' A xuan named Vethoim asserts that Harney Bnrnnto, a deceased Kami mining nnagivato, offered iliiin £lO,000 to p murder Kruger. After ißarnoy Barmvto’s suicide, Woolfe Joel .refused to pay, on the ground that nothing had 'been done to execute the plot. A quarrel and the shooting of Woolfe Joel ensued. , Roberts (7000) defeated Weiss (093/) on nn oval table at Manchester. A conference of the Amalgamated Society of Railwaymen will be held at Glasgow next year. The •society lias appointed delegates to attend line adjourned .Federation Conference at Manchester. , , „ BERLIN, Oct. 13. A Bill is being submitted to the Reichstag, .providing for an increase of .three million pounds in the .annual expenditure of .the navy. j)r. Karl Licbknecht has been sentenced to eighteen months ill a fortress for high treason for •fomenting anti-militarism. IQpiniou in Berlin is that the prosecution assures Liebknecht of the .future leadership of the Socialists. AMSTERDAM, October 13. * The Dutch Government proposes to modifv the Constitution in order to establish universal suffrage. - Votes will he allowed women, who will also be eligible to sit in Parliament. Owing to the threatened competition of German trusts, tlio second Chamber of the States-General, by 39 to 23 votes, voted a subvention of a quarter of a million pounds sterling to a Dutch lino of steamships from Holland to Argentina and Brazil. NEW YORK. Oct. 13.

The steamer Cypress has been wrecked on Lake Superior. Twentytwo nelsons wore drowned. One survivor was washed ashore lashed to a life raft. There is a slump on -the New York Exchange, recalling the March panic. The slum)) is duo to the rumor that Mr Harriman is reducing his holdings of railway stocks. Harrimnn denies that ho is doing so. BOMBAY, October 13. .Despite official warnings, Indian immigration to Canada continues. MELBOURNE. Oct. 14.

H.M.S. .Psycho, bound from Sydney to Adelaide, experienced a rough passage and put into Portland to repair her condenser. One of the engineers fell down in the engine room and injured his head severely. During the delirium -which (followed ho cut his throat from ear to ear. The wound was not fatal and the patient is on a fair way to recovery.

SYDNEY, Oct. 14. A man named Nolan whilst surf bathing on the Newcastle beach was seized by a shark and had his left arm mangled. Another swimmer rescued Nolan, who became unconscious before ho reached the shore.

ADELAIDE, Oct. 14. The Argot is a toal wreck, the bottom having been apparently knocked out of Jjer. She lies within 100yds of the shore. The .crow landed without difficulty. The captain states he thought he was eight miles off the land when the vessel struck.