YESTERDAY’S CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2212, 16 October 1907, Page 1

YESTERDAY’S CABLES.

United Press Association— Copyright '-.- 'LONDON. Oct, 14. Tlio roply of tho Railway Companies’ Association, received by Mr. Richard 8011, confirms tho refusal to confer with tho delegates of tho Men’s Associations. Advices from Glasgow state that the Scotch railways have resolved, in tho ovont of a strike, to forthwith accept all employees’ noticos, and to intimate that tho places of 12,UUb members of tho Amalgamated bocioty of Railway Servants will bo easily filled. . . „ Tho Noro division of tho liomo ileot combines to-day with the Atlantic and Channel Hoots, Admiral Berosford in command, for four days socrot tactical oxorcisos in tho North Sea, and then a lengthy study of tlio problem of torpedo attacks and do°lt°is tho first timo for fifty years that ono hundred warships have been concentrated in tho North boa. Mr. Phil SnoAvden, M.P. tor Blackburn, doclared that tho increase in the prico of coal is partly duo to tho action of Mr. Asquith in repoaling tho coal tax. Ho know tariff reformers would seize tho remark as telling against freetrado, hut lot the tiutli bo told, even though tariff reform pioAiul. NEW YORK, Oct, 14. Tho Navy Department has ordored from American collieries 123,000 tons of steam coal for tho Pacific cruise. All tenders for Welsh coal were nogativod. VIENNA, Oct, 14. Tho Emperor is slightly better. PARIS, Oct. 14. Seven persons avlio refuged from floods on a roof near Perpignau were drowned. It .will take some years to repair tlio liaA'Oc in tho Avilie-gio\\ ing provinces, caused by .the floods 1 BOMBAY, Oct. 14. Lord Kitchener has abandoned tlio win tor manoeuvres of the Indian army, owing to tho impossibility of arranging supplies for troops in consequence of the famine. MELBOURNE, Oct, 15. Mr. Bent’s Charity Bill, besides taxing sports and amusements, proposes a 5 per cent impost on the profits of newspapers and banking institutions. _ , TT Cabinet has accepted Judge Hood s resignation of tho Presidency of tho Industrial Appeal Court. SYDNEY, Oct. 15. _ Sir John See’s estate paid £17,852 Final returns for the local option poll slioav that 65 electorates voted for reduction, ancl 25 for continuance. Tho western district miners have notified that they will cease work on Saturday unless the demand for an increased rat© is conceded. BRISBANE, Oct. 10. Valuable petroleum discoveries are reported at lg The ship Argot is practically broken up. The disaster is attributed to tho sot of the current.