SATURDAY’S CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2081, 6 January 1908, Page 4

SATURDAY’S CABLES.

United Press Association—Copyright .Mi-. William Alexander McArthur, member of Parliament lor Cornwall, has icsigiied. A thousand London motor busmen have struck owing to employers oll’ermg to pay per number of journeys instead of per day. Prank \ eltheim was charged at the Guildhall with having demanded money with menaces from Solly Joel. Tilt' prosecutor testified that he first saw the accused when in the (lock at Johannesburg in 1898, being tried in connection with the death of witness's brother. Witness produced at the trial seven blackmailing letters, which were now read. The handwriting was the same as that ot a letter received in June. 1907, demanding money, followed by a draft for £lO,000, presented through J)r. .Millar, of Antwerp. Witness since the trial at Johannesburg had not seen the prisoner-till to-day. Accused was remanded for a week. Mr. Will Thorne, Labor member of Parliament for West Ham, declined an invitation to join lilarl Warwick, Lord Lieutenant of Essex, to form an Kssex Army Committee,. on the ground that he considers the new Army Act a disguised form of compulsory service. Outside a fashionable Parisian church, where both had just attended a requiem mass, Count lioni Castellani attacked Prince De Sagan, knocking him into the gutter, and ho continued kicking and trampling him until they were separated. The apparent cause of the attack was that Prince do Sagan was about to marry Anna Could, the Count’s late wife.

The notorious Union of Russian People, with the Czar's approval, has been formed into an orthodox league, without changing aims and ideals. Germany's first Dreadnought, rite Tayern, will be launched at Willielmsliaven at the end of February. A receiver lias been appointed for the Seaboard line, the third most important railway of the eastern American system, the capital being ten million pounds sterling, f A 00-horse-powcr Napier motor on the Brooklands course (U.S.A.) attained a speed of So miles ail hour. A tyre burst, and the motor jumped the embankment. Fron, the driver, was severely shaken. The Federal revenue for the lialfvear was £0.034,083, an increase of £1,202,000. The costs in the Wallace divorce case amounted to over £llOO. Mr. Bent, Victorian Premier, states that the half-year ended with asurplus of £200,000. He expects a surplus at the end of the year of nearly a million. The Victorian over-sea blitter exports last year were nearly 3.000.000 lbs less than the previous year, the decrease in,value being £91,181. The wharf laborers’ strike at Newcastle continues. The strikers demand an inc.reaso to Is 3d per hour for day work and Is 9d for night work. Tho crews, assisted •by permanent wharf hands, are slowly discharging arriving vessels. * The Union Company paid non-unionists for discharging the steamer AVakatipu the rates demanded by tho strikers. Tho services of Mr. Bruntnell,.general secretary of the New South Wales Alliance, have been secured for the temperance campaign in England. A dairyman at Hurstville (X.S.AV.) has been attacked by the plague: The case has an evident connection with the Marrickville outbreak. The Sydney Morning Herald estimates the wheat yield at 8.082,000 bushels, an average limit of over five bushels to the acre. A yacht capsized at Port Phillip, and two girls, named lUiisbock anil Williams, were drowned. The other occupant, a youth named Slater, was rescued after swimming a mile and a half.

News lias been received in Sydney from the Solomon Islands that'Captain McKenzie, of tlfb ketch Menota, went ashore on the island of ‘Malaita on November 14 to obtain recruits. The natives seized, pinioned, and tomahawked him before the eyes of the crew. The natives looted the Menota. but did not molest any others of the crew.