YESTERDAY’S CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2218, 23 October 1907, Page 3

YESTERDAY’S CABLES.

United Press Association—Copyright Mr. Abo Bailey, a Rand magnate) visiting nouiuon, wnen mterviewvu ueciarecl mac the agricultural and milling industries or the Transvaal are unprecedentiy nourishing, and that sumcient native labor will be fortlieommg to gradually supercede Chinese JaOor. The introduction on his farm of well-bred sheep from Australia, English cattle and Uorses had proved a great success. He is now elaborating a scheme for the scientific training of young South Africans in Europe to enable them to study each country’s most nourishing agricultural specialty.

In connection with his visit to Japan, cabled on tlie 9th, Mr. Lemiex, Canadian Postmaster-General, seeking credentials confers with Lord Elgin and Sir Edward Gray in London before proceeding to Tokio. Sir Edward Gray in reply to a memorial signed by Lord Coleridge, Mr. Leonard Courtney, and Dr. Clifford, appealing for tlio prompt release of Egyptians concerned in the assault on British officers at Densliawi, said he could not at present add to his recent statement in Parliament on the subject. Nelson’s column, in London was decorated on Trafalgar Day, and many wreaths wore laid at'The base in memory of tho hero of Trafalgar. Flags were hoisted on mdsWpublic buildings in the United Kingdom. The Navy League’s annual service was held at St. Martin’s, Trafalgar Square. Robert Barbour and Brother’s warehouse at Manchester has been destroyed by fire. The damage amounts to £120,000. Mr. T. A. Edison lias announced that ho was perfected a compact electric storage battery of almost unlimited capacity, which will cheapen and revolutionise transport. Ho declares that horses are destined to disappear from the streets, excepting for pleasure, and adds that everyone owning a horse will soon be able to afford an automobile. Mr. Edison predicts that Marconi in a decade will be able to send one thousand words a minute across the Atlantic by ‘ means of wireless telegraphy. A better feeling prevails oil the New York stock market owing to the projected reorganisation of various banks. Those investigated have been found solvent. The committee of the Clearing House state that the assets of tho banks will meeet all calls upon deposits. There is much surprise in New York at tlie fusion of Republicans and Mr. liearst’s Independant League.

Tlie police at Limoges, France, received a mysterious package from London, returning a fourteenth century statue of the A r irgin, worth £IOOO. It is supposed to have been stolen by Antoine Thomas from the Church of Sail Vetat.

Mr. Kedyard Kipling, speaking at Toronto, advocated a close fellowship between Canada. Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa, for mutual preference in trade. He added that the last-named three offered the promise of markets worthy of serious consideration.

King Alfonso, of Spain, while motoring through flooded districts, met with an accident. The collapse of a .bridge at Leridaj. precipitated the King into the river. He escaped uninjured.

[King Alfonso has a passion for motoring at considerable speed, which has caused his Ministers no little amount of concern.] A sailing vessel capsized at TJleaborg, Finland, and twenty-one workmen were drowned. Early in the month the steamer St. Louis, while on a voyage from Noumea, with the old French warship Meurtlr3 in tow, abandoned the latter, which was reported to have been in a sinking condition. AVorcl has now been received from Lord Howe Island that the old warship . drifted ashore there, and is lying high and dry. The derelict is claimed by the islanders.

At the Rifle Association meeting. Sydney in the Randwick match, the New Zealanders Perrin and A Ballanger won £1 each. In the Members’ match Speak secured ninth place, winning £2, and AVebber £l. Mr. Reid, manager of Lieutenant Sliackleton’s Antarctic expedition, has arrived at Sydney on route to Now Zealand, to complete final arrangements for the expedition. Another claimant of the Page millions has put in an appearance in the person of Arthur F. Page, ol Carlton. Melbourne, who claims to be a lineal descendant of Henry Page, tile last direct bolder of the estate. The Marine emmiry at Adelaide into the wreck of the Argot finds that more care should have been taken to verify the ship’s position than by dead reckoning.