YESTERDAY’S CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2236, 13 November 1907, Page 1

YESTERDAY’S CABLES.

United Press Association —Copyright M. Lolas, the French inventor of the hydroplane, covered ono and a. quarter miles ontlio Seino at a speed of 3S miles an hour. Tho Crown Princess of Germany has been accouched of a son. Burning and pillaging country estates and murdoring: landlords throughout IChorson, Russia, is becoming intolerable. Many shop and office robberies are reported daily in tho largo cities. Tho personalty of tho lato Mr. William Sanders, Qf Hawko’s Bay, has boon sworn at! £35,530. Mr. F. Dyor, of Wellington, has boon gazetted vieo-Consul for Greece. Of tho mayors and lord mayors in England and Wales 148 are Conservatives, 223 Liberal Unionists, and 137 Liberals. In London boroughs thoro aro 22 Conservative mayors and tlireo Liborals. Tho Pall Mall Gazette says it is glad Mr. Dcakin is alivo to tho need of encouraging tho development of Australia’s latent resources. The Commonwealth must show a readiness equalling that of Canada to nssist emigrants; if it fails there will como a time when the door's will bo forced, probably by a race loss welcome than ours. As the iresult of a quarrel, Carroll, a coao'hbuilder at Limerick, killed two men in the same trade. Ho then barricaded himself in a room, and, after sovorely wounding two policomen, ho committed suicide. By a devastating fir© at Iquiquo (Pofu) 2000 people have been made homeless. , Reuter’s Shanghai correspondent states that after granting a British corporation a concession to build the Sucliou-Ningpo railway tho Chinese Government authorised the provincial administration to bjiild the line. Recognising that it had committed a breach of treaty rights, the Central Government assented to re-open negotiations with the British corporation, but tho provincial authorities refused to obey. Chinese . merchants at Shanghai offer to subscribe money to build tho railway; Tho populace threaten to boycott British piece goods. The Great Northern express collided with a stationary train at Finsbury (England). Thirty persons were injured, but not seriously ,except in two instances. Lord Chesham was thrown from his horse and killed while hunting with tho Pytchley hounds. [Lord Chesham was 57 years.of age, and in 1877 married Lady Beatrice Constance Grosveuor, second daughter of tho first Buko of Westminster. Ho was master of tho Royal Buckhounds in 1900, and Hon. Colonel of tho Royal Bucks Hussars. Ho entered- the Coldstream Guards in 1870, and retired in 1879, being then in tho 16th Lancers, but ho served in South Africa in 1900 and was Inspector-General of tho Imperial Yeomanry, South Africa, 1901-1902.] Lord'Kilmaine committed suicide in Paris. During a neurasthenic attack he jumped from a window in th© presence of his wife and fractured his skull. [Lord Ivifmaine was 64 years of age, and had been a representative peer for Ireland since 1890. His wife is tho second daughter of the Hon. Charles Ewan Law.] Lieutenant Ullmo’s arrest, cabled on October 25th, led to the discovery of an international espionage agency in the south of France and tho arrest of several civilians at Marseilles and Toulon. [Lieutenant Ullmo, of the French torpedoer Carrabinc, was arrested at Toulon under sensational circumstances for offering to sell a signal code and cypher key.] Reuter reports that nine officers wero arrested at Warsaw with six civilians implicated in espionage, whereby it is undersood Germany has profited. Professor Dowell, of Arizona, telegraphs that condensations give two of Saturn’s rings the appearance ’that they are about to fall upon th© planet. Professor Salisbury suggests that two moons are forming. [Saturn’s rings are -a unique set of appendages. Tho two outer rings measure respectively nearly 12,009 miles and 17,200 miles across, and separated by a gap of 1800 miles. Inside them lies the “crape ring” discovered on November 15, 1850; it is 11,500 miles wide, and is divided by a clear interval of 6730 miles from the globe, upon which it is projected like a strip of black gauze. The phases of Saturn’s rings depend upon their varying positions with regard to-the sun and earth. They disappear all but completely for some weeks while the earth is on their

illuminated sido. This usually happens twice in the course of their critical year (which is at intervals of nearly fifteen years). The rings then open out gradually. Saturn, the sixth ilanet from the sun, is also attended jy ten satellites, the tenth being discovered a little over two years ago.] A terrible earthquake occurred in the Aleutian Isles. Tho McCullough Peak, 3400 feet, which the earthquake of 1906 created, has dwindled to nothing. [The Aleutian Islands are a curved chain of islands numbering about 150, extending west from the Alaskan Peninsula for a distance of 1000 miles towards the Commander Islands off the coast of Kamschatka. The islands are bare and rocky, -and many of their summits -are volcanoes. The island of Unalaska is the centre of the American whale and seal fisheries, and has a good harbor. The inhabitants, called Aleuts, -are Eskimo in origin. The greater part of tho chain'belongs to tho United States territory of Alaska.]

As the result of Mr. Wade’s -efforts the coal miners of Newcastle (New South Wales) have agi-eed to continue work for three days, the proprietors having consented to an early conference to discuss the trouble. Four persons were rather severely injured in the tram explosion at Concord .(N.S.W.), others slightly. [According to Sunday’s message both drivers were killed, and the conductor -anti several passengers were severely scalded.]