YESTERDAY’S CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2044, 22 November 1907, Page 1

YESTERDAY’S CABLES.

United Press. Association—Copyright; Obituary : Baroness Adolphe Roth-; schild.

Dr Jameson at Capetown applauded Mr Balfour’s wise and welcomo suggestion for resummoning the Colonial Conference.

Judge Hortzogj at Bloemfontein, eulogised the generosity of tlio Im-; perial Government, which ibdiind all! hearts in. South Africa to tho Eta- 1 I) ire. Tho Intelligence Department of, N.S.W., dealing with tho discre-! pancy between - its figures and those} published in New Zealand in refer- i ence to the movement of popula- I ition between the two countries, j points out that it is not likely there : will bo any Improvement until a com- j (moil basis of calculation is adopted, j “At the same time,” it is added, “iwoare confident of our figures. Many people doubtless pass through New, Zealand and return to Australia by: other routes. The -Department,: however, is assured that Now Zea-1 laud land owners are selling out ini considerable numbers and coming to j New South Wales in search of land. ■ Many of them visit the Department,: and whatever the cause tho fact is 1 vouched for by the Department.” I'lii-' Commonwealth Federal House 1 read tho Iron Bonus Bill a second! time, after a- proposal by tho Laborparty to nationalise the iron ind-us- i try Iliad been defeated. The Senate j has ratified the mail contract. :

•Merityn .Macartney, a London architect, asserts that eight piers supporting St Paul’s dome -have sunk, som-e over 6 inches -and others less. Wliilo Mr Maccartney does not consider the situation serious, other eminent ' architects differ strongly ,and rirge tho strictest precaution.

A dozen undergratutes “ragged” i tho King of -Spain by pelting him : •with lumps •of -sugar on tho lltli, : when lie was visiting Cambridge. , One has been fined. [King Alfonso of Spain in 1906 married tlio Princess Victoria Eugenie, daughter of tlie youngest sister of King Edward.] All (aborigines’ camp at Bell; Brock (New South Wales) was struck by. lightning. One was killed and three injured. „