YESTERDAY’S CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2220, 25 October 1907, Page 4

YESTERDAY’S CABLES.

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(! i'll I'l'a I Drude's forces had a sharp light with -Midi 1 .Luiid's mounted followers in Morocco. The hitler';; losses numbered 50. The encnmitcr was followed by an attempt •to am bush a French reconnaissance. Some tribes involved afterwards .submitted, ami will deliver their arms Ui General Drudo. Mr. Watson, leader of the l'etloral lmbor I’ir.ty, retains his seat for the session, and then retires altogether from Parliament. lie stales there has been no friction with the party, ami his resignation is entirely due to private reasons.

A protracted meeting of the Gabor party discussed Mr. Watson’s retirement. Strong efforts that were made to induce him to retain. itho leadership were unavailing. Finally it was decided to accept bis resignation will) deep regret. The appointment of a successor was deferred tor a week. Mr. Watson remains a member of the party. It is considered probable Mr. Fisher, deputy leader." will be appointed to the leadership. . Goods and passenger trams collided on the Wubishtya-Viisfcula railway, Austria. Eighteen persons wore killed iiiul 20 seriously injured. A conference of the Chambers of Manufacturers in Sydney adopted resolutions in favor ol efficient protection to all Australian industries and preference to Britain.

A message, received in Hobart by pigeon no..'.t from the search party, reports the finding of the dead body of the cantain of the ATfhcld on GohUliggeiV Beach. The captain had worked his way through almost •impenetrable jungle in delirium, tun! had fallen over a small embankment. He cut his head, and was nimble to rise. He died from exhaustion, due to starvation. The weather was bititerlv cold, and the country flooded and rough at the scene of the "wreck.

liotilid Bonaparte has ordered in Paris for his daughter Mario, whose betrothal to Prince George of Greece was recently announced, a trousseau costing £(10.000. H.M.S. Powerful, from Colombo, lias arrived at Fremantle with n Although opera prices in Berlin have been raised 300 per cent., applications for -10,000 scats for ■ four Caruso performances have had to he refused. Six-t-v million herrings have been landed at Yarmouth in one catch. Thp Karl of Shaftesbury, while motoring at Belfast, killed a little girl. Cider from Wagga Government farm (X.SAV.) was, awarded a bronze medal at the Brewers’ Exhibition in London. An inquire into the Shrewsbury railway accident showed that- the driver’had twice been suspended for over-shooting and disregarding signals- . . The first cattle-driving raid in Westmeath led to seven arrests.