YESTERDAY’S CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2076, 31 December 1907, Page 1

YESTERDAY’S CABLES.

United Press Association —Gop/right Admiral Poore sails for Australia by the China ou January 17tli. Ludwig von Veltheim has been brought from France to London in custody. The (Daily Telegraph emphasises that many Indian veterans recently banqueted came from a workhouse, and returned thither. . The nation, it states, must rescue them, and terminate such a reproach. The -Scottish -Miners’ Federation Conference at Glasgow, by 58 to 43, negatived a proposal to ask Parliament to compel coal masters to collect millers’ funds at tlio colliery offices. Another resolution expressed extreme disappointment that old ago pensions were not provided for in last year’s Budget. There is an easterly gale with heavy seas and snow squalls in the Channel. The Orontes reported very bad weather.

The steamer Supvic starts for -Liverpool within n. fortnight to prepare for her Australian voyage. At the instance of Baron Monkswell, bv royal commission, Dr. J. C. S'. Haldane will inspect .Scottish miners’ houses with the view of making recommendations concerning housing. Three hundred and eighty-seven securities dealt with on the Stock Exchange represented in 1907 a..depreciation of £342,000,000, or an average fall of 9 per cent. Evidcnco at the Port Arthur courtmartial is almost uniformly unfavorable to General Stoesstd. The latter was unable to refute the charge of mi warrantable interference with Smilnolf, commandant of the fortress. On the jubilee of Hodson’s Horse, at Lahore, Colonel Cowper led the march past, and saluted the native retired veterans. This evoked a spontaneous demonstration of loyalty on the part of the native soldiers. Native officers cheered, solemnly declaring that they had not participated in any of the recent linresT, and that they abominated all .seditionmongers. Nearly five inches of rain fell in Melbourne during the recent storm. The temperature fell from 106 in the shade to 40 degrees forty-eight hours later. There has been another surf fatality at Newcastle (N.S.W.), making three in five days.