YESTERDAY'S CABLES,

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2082, 7 January 1908, Page 1

YESTERDAY'S CABLES,

United Press Association—Copyright Mr. Richard Dell," ~vL.r., and Secretary oi the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, on behalf of tho Eaihvaymen’s Society, complains of the London North Western Company taking a ballot of employes whether they arc willing that the company should bear the whole cost of the Conciliation Boards and arbitration proceedings under tho new scheme, instead of the eompay and employes sharing the cost. Mr. Dell declares this to he a violation of tho spirit of the agreement and a transparent attempt to pack to Conciliation Boards with non-union men. The Admiralty lias replaced on the active list the third-class cruiser Philomel and sloop Algerine, which were declared ineffective in 1901. Mark Hambourg makes a three months’ tour of Australia, and New Zealand, opening in Sydney in July. It transpires that prior to shooting Major Coates, Phillips asked his wife to re-marry him. She reluesd. At tiio inquest on Phillips a verdict of insanity was returned. Phillips’s wife’s mother succumbed to her injuries. There are 140,000 confined Russian prisoners. This is 40,000 beyond the number possible to accommodate sanita rily. Two hundred pounds worth of jewellery stolen from Anthony Horden’s, Sydney, lias been recovered. Four men have been arrested. Last year 2845 persons arrived in New South Wales .under the Government assisted immigration scheme. '['lie profits in the Mount Morgan mine, Queensland, for the last lialfvoar amounted to £140,967.