SATURDAY’S CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2058, 9 December 1907, Page 4

SATURDAY’S CABLES.

United Pross Association— Copyright The .Commercial Banking company (Svdnev) informed Mr. Sandlord flic bank could not agree to the Government’s terms for the proposed advance to tho Lithgow ironworks. In the Assembly in reply to a slaUw ment that the bank had decided to closo down on tho ironworks, am. a]),peils to the Government to devise means to keep the works going, tho Premier, Ulr. Wade, stated thu- bo had no official information on tlio matter. Ho could not -say »what lurther stems would ibo taken, hut the Government were prepared to make efforts to prevent dislocation ot the industry. , The Admiralty is constructing forthwith a naval basin at .Rosyth oi 50 acres, lit will be 00ft deep at all tides. There will be quay space tor 22 battleships, or -it hanked two abreast, with the lock always accessible. The largest warships will be given access to tho basin. The Admiralty is also constructing a .graving dock. 'Lieutenant Shacklcton lectured to a crowded audience in the Sydney Town Hail on the objects of the Antarctic expedition, lie appealed tor funds. He stated that previous to coining to Australia lie saw some 50 millionaires, and impressed them not oulv with the value of tho expedition, hut the need to maintain their national prestige, and they turned a deaf ear. Professor Anderson Stuart announced that the real reason of the appeal for funds was that the recent manic in "Wall-street cost the expedition £IOOO or £SOOO. At- the conclusion of the lecture, a committee was formed, with Sir Frederick Harley as chairman, to raise the £SOOO needed by Lieutenant Shackleton to complete the magnetic survey of the southern seas. in the South Australian Assembly several members liotly resented remarks made by a Legislative Councillor regarding the reception given to Mr, Keir Hardie at Parliament House, and urged the Premier to take action in view of the reflections cast on members of the Assembly. One of the members characterised the remarks as insulting, blackguardly insinuations. —— The estate" of Hayemeyor, the American sugar king’,' is valued at fifteen millions sterling. He bequeathed three-quarters of a million to charities. Fourteen people ivere suffocated in tho tunned construction works between New York and New Jersey. The Committee of the Diet-, by 19 to 9, rejected tho Polish expropriation proposals. The Mauretania beat tlio Lusitania’s eastward record by 29 minutes. A Syrian named Moses has been sentenced in Sydney to three years" imprisonment for demanding money from Samuel Hordern under threats. •Judge Docker undertook to recommend bis release on sureties being provided for if Moses returned to Syria. _ The report of the Registrar of Trade Unions. Sydney, shows that the number of trade unionists at the end of 190 G was ‘"L Tlio. funds totalled £82.05(1. The legislative (’•■neil has ratified the agreement far the transfer of the Northern Territory from South Australia to -be Federal Government. Mr. Cortelyou’s annual report recommends legislation in the direction of greater elasticity of currency. It suggests a division of the country and the retention in each socUoii of a larger proportion of bank reserves, also a law limiting retirement! The provision as to circulation should he so amended as to leave the amount to the discretion of the Treasury. At the convention of Californian delegates Mr. Grant Powers, Marysville, unanimously recommended the repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Act. urging Congress to admit a fixed liberal number of Chinese and Japan esc on the same condition applying to European immigrants. The memorial declares _ that industries are threatened with .extinction. There was no evidence that the States in the West suffered from the presence of Chinese prior to their exclusion. Mr. John, an Irish journalist, declared that tlie real peril of the country was immigration from Southern and South-eastern Europe. The present condition of tlio fruit regions was duo to labor agitator mostly aliens. D. S. Adams, of .Greenock, has been appointed Professor of Church History and Systematic Theology at Ormond College. Melbourne. Mr. J. Horseburg and assistant are about to leave London, for New Guinea, where they make a colloctioir of fauna in connection with tlie Royal Zoological Society’s exhibition of Australasian fauna to bo held in June next. Air. Seth Smith, a member of the Council of the Zoological Society, is also proceeding to Australia to secure collections of fauna. He offers to accept other collections in return. After two Austrian monitors had been sent to Dulcigno Antivari, Montenegro’s apology for violating .the Dalmatian treaty, by sending infantry to effect their in connection with the recent plot, has been accepted.