YESTERDAY’S CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2219, 24 October 1907, Page 1

YESTERDAY’S CABLES.

Onitcd Press Association,—Copyright Mr. lludyard Kipling, speaking at the Canadian Club, Ottawa urged a powerful plea- against tho expulsion of Asiatics. Everyavhero ho had been struck throughout tho Dominion with the strong and persistent cry for more help and more people. Ho found Hindus employed as unskilled labor which whites declined ito handle. There was not enough white labor to superviso the unskilled. If the Canadians proposed to develop their country on the lines of a closo corporation their glory would pass from them. It was as a nation among great nations Canada would bo judged. The speech was greeted with cheers. Sir Wilfrid Laurier cordially seconded tho voto of thanks to Mr. Kipling. Two determined attempts were made to derail the Queenstown and Cork trains near Little Island, County Cork. Tho attempts wore frustrated. Scottish agriculturist s _ losses through rain ruining the grain crop are estimated at £2,500,000. tlayuer, the late Will lain 'Whiteley’s murderer, vainly tried to commit suicide by opening an artery. Chinese rioters near Moddorfouteiu abused the police while the latter were entering a barricaded coinpound through tho kitchen. The policy were oliiiged to lire, killing one and wounding nineteen. Auitono Thomas, a Parisian merchant-, lias confessed to a magistrate, circumstantially implicating several leading antiquarians as instigators of tho thefts and being receivers of. the stolen treasures. *

Mr. K. T. Young, Attorney-Gene-ral of the State of Minnesota, in defiance of an injunction of the United States District. Court at St. Paul, attempted to enforco under State law a reduction of railroad freights. Ho thereupon was fined for contempt. Ho refused to pay a fine, being remanded in custody pending an appeal to tho United States Supreme Court. The MiLitar Woehenblatt a German military organ, reviewing Maurice’s History of the South African War, handsomely admits that .attempts previously made to belittle British leadership and tho courage o'f British troops were foauidalionless. I,t warmly praises tho leadership, dash, pluck, and perseverance of tho British and colonial troops. On tho eve of a private meeting of Bishops a.t Lambeth Palace, when tho Archbishop of Canterbury was expected to givo a pronouncement on the Deceased Wife’s Sister Act, Lord Halifax, President of tho English Church Union, forwarded tho Archbishop an address, signed .by S7OO priests and eight bishops, including Bishop Goo, several deans, and 17 archdeacons, thanking him for vindicating the marriage law of tho Church, and assuring him of the heartiest support. Mr John Morley, Secretary of State for India, speaking at Arboath, denounced as tho greatest and most dangerous fallacy in all politics the idea underlying Mr Iveir Hardie’s remark that- what was good for Canada as self-government must be good for India. Impatient idealists would not succeed in forcing tho Government in their programme of reforms, Tho situation in India was in no wise dangerous, but required serious and vigilant attention. The root of tho unrest was racial, not political. Ho reiterated liis faith that thero would ho a better mind in all tho great communities. The Government was appealing to that better mind in India.

Dogs caused a discovery that two men wero digging a tunnel near tho Pavidovsk railway, near the vicinity of Tsarkoe Selo Palace, the Czar’s residence. Tho men wero arrested.

Tlio newspaper Berlin Tageblatt announces that a Bill will shortly be introduced to establish a mono-

poly in brandy, yielding the Stuto seventy million marks. Professor Biles, Professor of Naval Architecture at Glasgow University, who is on a visit to Austra-

lia, approves of Australia building a fleet, but is of the opinion that torpedo vessels cannot be built in Australia. They are the most difficult of all vessels to construct. Britain 1 was a long time learning how to build them.