YESTERDAY’S CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2079, 3 January 1908, Page 4

YESTERDAY’S CABLES.

United Press Association—Copyright , l^ u -‘ k'nglish .Navy League insists unit tlio next Jiavat estimates must tie lorty million pounds if Britain is to lay down two keels where .German >• lays down one.

The .'sew {south Wales Agency, in its annual report, states that assisted passages were granted to 'zii 9 farm workers and domestics out of 13.770 applicants. A favorable feature of the year’s work is tile higher percentage of immigrants who arc friends of immigrants previously assisted.

The Marquis of Linlithgow, formerly Governor-General of the Australian Commonwealth, remitted £SOO in rents to his Lothian tenantry owing to the bail harvest.

Sir 11. Campbell Bannerman, who still looks wan and strained in health, though considerably better, interviewed at Biarritz said he did not despair of solving the education problem, though it was supremely ilifficult. The Government had made substantial reductions in the national expenditure, and the nation must trust the Government to do the best that was possible. He was confident that several years' effective work would be done before Parliament dissolved. The only valid objection to the Government’s scheme of reform of the House of Lords was its excessively modest and moderate character, ft was intended to mako real progress with land law reform. The new Licensing Bill would recognise the main principles advocate! bv the I’nited Kingdom Alliance. The Archbishop of Canterbury in a message to his diocese, says: The Church in 1908 must face largo questious of policy and practice in educational. social, and liturgical matters. The message urges the needs for a broad outlook and adds: This year should lift us into fresher air, and we may wholesomely bo startled to find how our problems strike a fresh eye of, say, Japanese Christians, American teachers, or Australian politicians. Of half a million maturing South Australia 4 per cent debentures £46,500 lfas been converted into 24 per cent debentures, and £94,200 will be redeemed before maturity. The balance will be paid in cash. The smallness of the conversion is due to the dearness of money and higher interest obtainable for other securities. The death is announced of If. de Trooz, Belgian 1> render.

Air Guvop Dessaigne, Deputy for Ciermont I'enaud, and .Minister for Justice, died of heart disease while leaving the Senate and talking with a political opponent. Two signatories of the ViborgManifesto were acquitted, and the rest sentenced to three months’ imprisonment, with loss of all political rights. Albert Thompson, an English mechanic, lias been arrested on suspicion in New York of murdering on Christmas night a beautiful young woman and leaving the body in a swamp at Harrison, New .Jersey. He passed as a bachelor; but later it was established that Ills wife Lilian was in .New Zealand with a young son. The accusation is at present not conlirmed.

Japan agrees to accept some of the United States’ suggestions regarding restrictions of emigration, and has com ccously declined others as incompatible with Japanese dignity. At the same time it has outlined other plans. The South Australian harvest ;s proving better than expected. Henry Price, well-known in business in Newtown, Sydney, shot a stocktaker named Sullivan dead in his shop. Price has assigned his estate, and the victim was engaged to make an inventory. It is believed Price is insane.

Burglars at Anthony Ilordcn’s, Sydney, secured jewellery valued at £240, and escaped by unhinging a door. At Sydney Tom Barrows heat his own club-swinging record of 61 hours 35 minutes bv 2 minutes.

‘Madame Clara Butt, the famous singer, was a passenger from Sydney for New Zealand yesterday by the steamer Mokoin, after a remarkably successful tour of the Commonwealth. Frederick J-Lunt, Melbourne, v.’no. it was cabled on December sth, bad completely lost bis memory, and did not know of bis wife and children, has regained his memory. He recognised his wife. Sunstroke caused the lapso of memory.

Captain Williams, Newcastle mir - ger of the Union Company, speaking at a regatta, complained that Hie coal-loading facilities at Newcastle had not kept pace with the trade. The Union Company would build large vessels if the Government would belli them to get steamers in and out of port, ns they could not depend on obtaining prompt coaling at Newcastle.