YESTERDAY’S CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2065, 17 December 1907, Page 1

YESTERDAY’S CABLES.

United Press Association —Cop/right The Thomas Lawson, a 50-ton petroleum boat, capsized while .riding at anchor .at ticilly. Sixteen persons were drowned and three saved. The severe weather in England continues. Gales have been experienced in the British Channel. Lloyds report that, thirty minor wrecks have occurred. The Hoods continue in the Western Counties and in the Thames Valley. A heavy sea swamped a. steam cutter belonging to the torpedo gunboat Speedwell, at Sheerness pier, and drowned eight bluejackets who were starting on their Christmas lca-ve'. The Budget Committee of the Gorman Diet, has accepted tho Government’s modified Bill for the Gcrmanisation of Posen. The Bavarian section of the Navy Leaguo secured in sympathy with Princo Rupert, a meeting under:the auspices of the Berlin Colonial Society to support Kern and Graf Raven'blow, members of the Reichstag, wlio advocate a larger naval programme than the Government. Thirty Social Democratic members of the Second Duma have been exiled to Siberia, of whom 22 were sentenced to an additional four or five years’ imprisonment. The latter include Prmce Tscherparidza and others prominent at the London congress. On the ground that Japanese servants have been seen taking notes of the system of gun control and other installations aboard the warships, it is stated' at 'Hamden. Roads, 'U.S.A., that’ those employed on Admiral Evans’ battleships wild not be allowed to accompany the fleet to the Pacific, all 'being dismissed. The squadron is crammed with ammunition. . Two thousand Montenegrins crossed the Turkish frontier," and massacred the inhabitants of two Albanian villages near iGusinjob. Exceptionally mild weather has been experienced in North-West Canada. Many farmers have ’ already .finished ploughing. Air Ross, Canadian Commissioner in Melbourne, lias received a cable from the Canadian Government, stating that the subsidy by Canada to the Australian line was not included in the estimates. The contract, the message states, has not been, cancelled. The fear is expressed that the Canadl- - line is of doubtful value under the present combines. Air Keir Hard'ie is reticent about his impressions of Australia. He told a, .Sydney interviewer that be bad come to .gain, information. India was referred to . by the interviewer, but Mr Hardie said ho was sick of hearing about it. The Hawkeshnry has arrived in Sydney from New York. For three days the vessel threaded her wav through a. field Of icebergs of great size. It is estimated that she passed between' 400 and 500. The steamer went 500 miles southward- of her usual course. F-ie-rce gales between Alburv and Wagga, .N.S.AV... interrupted tlie southern lines, but communication was .restored' at midnight. The Hebbum (N.S.AV.) miners have decided to resume work.