YESTERDAY'S CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2057, 7 December 1907, Page 4

YESTERDAY'S CABLES.

United Pross Association—Copyright 'Plus Labor party entertained Mr. Keir Murdie at luncheon at Parliament House, Adelaide. The interim report of the forestry Commission, iNew ib’outh Wales, re* commends that the export 01-iron-hark and tallow-wootl ho prohibited for 10 vears. The Commissioners 1\ iid that the timber resources of it he State are not of the magnitude genera llv supposed, and ’’ve.quire- to he administered with the utmost caution.

The ©ape Colony Government is issuing a loan of one million at 1 per cent., with a minimum of;B.x _ .Mr. Fornker declares himself a candidate .for nomination for the United States Presidency. Prince Billow’s expropriation proposals in connection with Pouviul are experiencing strong opposition in- the Prussian Diet-. Sir Wilfred La.urier, at .a great political demonstration at Ottawa, condemned (British Columbia’s mistaken prejudice against Oriental immigration. He declared that wh.de lie exercised ip6wer lie would never do anything to endanger -the '.Brit-ish-Japan esc alliance. The Standard’s Berlin correspondent states it 1 l.vt on. the occasion of the mutiny at Zanzibar the Sultan asked for ‘(British aid. The ViceConsul, in the absence of the Con-sul-General, was obliged, as the British warships wore 100 miles off, to seek German .aid.*. r Plie .appearance of a Germ in .warship helped to overawe the mutineers, and facilitated the officers in the task of restoring order. , . Lieutenant Shackleton was welcomed by the (Lord .Mayor at a representative .gathering .at the Town flail, Sydney. .The board of directors of the bank interested in the Lithgow ironworks (N.S.W.) to-day considered the action of Parliament in giving tile Government priority in connection with the proposed advance of £70,000. The bank holds £200,000 •worth of securities on its debt, and under these circumstances it is expected it he bank will reject Parliament’s proposalsSir John Madden, president of the Geographical Society, is appealing in Melbourne for funds for Lieutenant iSliackleton’s expedition. Owing to a large influx of Italian immigration from the United States, as the result of the financial crisis there, it is expected .there 'will be three hundred thousand extra unemployed ill Italy during tho winter. The Council of Emigration at Borne propose emigration to Western Australia. The Australian Federal House fixed the duty on Oregon and New Zealand pine, undressed, all sizes, at fid per 100 superficial feet-. The Queensland members strongly opposed the free admission of New Zealand pine, desiring .the exclusive use of Queensland pine for its own butter boxes. Orders placed for Queensland pine a year ago are still unfulfilled. B. T. Wood h: ’• r,n committed for trial for the • ter of Emily Drmmock, at Can:!;: . m (England). The Agents--Geher.il are arranging for a special A...is teal’m wine bar at the Franeo-ißFtisli Exhibition; also for an extensive ri-"." ; ge’\itio..L displ iv. Dr. Ashburton Thompson, President of the New South Wales Board of Health, and Professor Hatfkino, addressed the Royal Society of .Medicine (London) upon the prese it method of combatting plague in India. ’Pile floor of a Manchester boxhig club collapsed, precipitating the peo-ple-to a warehouse below. Twenty persons were injured.