YESTERDAY’S CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2215, 19 October 1907, Page 4

YESTERDAY’S CABLES.

United Press Association—Copyright Reuter reports that Lord Minto, Viceroy of India, granted Mr, Kcir llitrdie an interview, and discussed with him questions of* education and tin' emigration of Indians to the colonies. Mr. Taft, in opening the Philippine Assembly, saitl he did not believe the Filipinos would ho fitted for self-go-vernment for at least a generation. Ho denied emphatically that the United States had any intention of disposing of the Philippines. The Ashburton collection of pictures has been sold to a Bond street syndicate for £150,000. ‘Obituary: Sir Robert Alexander Bnillie, who commanded the Australian squadron of the King’s Colonial Imperial Yeomanry. A French detective has taken possession of tho Ambazne reliquinry found in London. The statue is valued at £-1000, and was found ui l houias’ cellar, Clermont. Forrnud, concealed in a cask labelled rum. Thomas declares his willingness to confess everything. Mr. \Y. Astor promises a second £lO 000 to tho Oxford University fund when £IOO,OOO is subscribed. A majority of the Shipping Moderation favor tlie formation of an international strike fund for laying up all vessels in the port affected instead of the importation of strike breakers. Two London policemen have been sentenced to long terms of imprisonment for burglaries at Slingford. The Duke of Argvle, Karl Derby, and Lord Selby, as trustees of the Franco-Britisli exhibition, have announced that space will ho allotted on November 30th. A sub-section of tho London Chamber of Commerce, relating to proprietary articles, suggests that in order to preserve the secrets of such articles tho Commonwealth should require all manufacturers to make a sworn declaration that the articles do not contain any drugs scheduled as prohibited or any ingredient or deleterious drug in quantities injurious to health, or drugs and alcohol in excess of tho quantities the Commonwealth regulations prescribe. The members of the Chamber of Commerce express a hope that the Homo Government will protest against regulations compelling the disclosure of trade secretsi which involve the abolition of trade ill proprietary articles with Australia. The damage at Fontenat, Indiana, ns tho result of an explosion at the powder mills, is estimated at £150,Two Red Indian chiefs of the Snlteax tribe. North-West Territory, have been convicted of strangling and incinerating sick and useless tribesmen. One strangled himself during the trial. The other was sentenced to be hanged. A wireless telegraph operator was found dead in the sending room at Well free t, Massachusetts. His position showed he had not touched the instruments. The indications are that he succumbed to shock through the Intensity of the electricity within the room.

Seismographs in America, at Liabaeh. and the Isle of Wight, record vl yesterday an earthquake of -extraordinary violence. The area affected is supposed to he somewhere in the Southern Atlantic. The demoralisation of Wall Stri ct was accompanied by frenzied selling, which nearly precipitated a panic. Mr. Pierpont- Morgan’s effort to strengthen the market- was apparently ineffective. The losses rr-r.gid from three to seven points on the stocks affected. The markets rre still unsettled. Tho London market 1 r American stocks is dull and lower. _ * . Several arrests for espionage in Germany reveal a very extol live system of‘selling to Franco military documents from various places.

A reassuring statement lias i“>“" made in the Reichstag regarding the Austrian Emperor’s health, though it is admitted that it- will be- f< ir e time before the effects «'? the illness disappear. It is understood in Melbourne that Mr. Watson, for private reasone, resigns the leadership of the Federal Labor party next week, and retires from public life altogether at the end of next session.

In tlie debate on the tariff in >.'ie House of Representatives, Mr Glynn foreshadowed an amendemnt in the direction of the removal of preference to Britain. The Senate decided to refer the question of Senator O’Loughlin's feat to the High Court.

In connection with the mid contract, representatives of the Orb m Company had a long inter.now w'tli Mr. Deakin, Postmaster-Gaa wal.

The conference in Meli) nrrne 1 1tween the Anglican and i'reshyter’an Churches on the question of union has concluded. Tho result has not been disclosed. A series of amicable resolutions were adojited, which will be submitted to tho Primate. The censure debate ill New Smith Wales is proceeding in a spiritless fashion. The cable steamer Patrol is' engaged in making slight repairs to the New Zealand cable off But my Bay. An increase in tho hewing rate lias been conceded the Western miners, New South Wales, and a strike averted.