YESTERDAY'S CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2083, 8 January 1908, Page 4

YESTERDAY'S CABLES.

Unitod Press Association—Copyrigb General Booth lias been invited to send to Canada 25,000 navvies, work being guarranteed for ton years at I Os per day. Enormous leakages of money nro reported in connection with the separation of church and State in Eraueo. A senatorial committee has been appointed to make enquiries. Advice has been received that explorers in the employ of Ryan and Guggenheim's International .Rubber Corporation at llasai, Congo, had a severe encounter with cannibals armed with Hint locks. Twenty-live natives, including live of the party’s porters, were killed. The Belgian detachment fought the cannibals lor a whole day, when the explorers retired. Many students at Ivied' have been arrested. They were in possession of bombs. They blackmailed iron works to the extent of £6OOO for immunity from attaok. They also intended to assassinate the Governor, prefect of Police, and rector of the I’niversitv. One hundred and fifty Japanese leave Honolulu for Vancouver this week. The steerage accommodation, of Canad ian-Austrivlian liners is booked for six months ahead by Japanese from Honolulu. Fifty are leaving >v cadi ship. ‘The Porto has thrice offered to take the reform agents of Macedonia into its own service, but the Powers decline. . . The Tokio newspaper kokuminsmnhun complains of the Chinese attitude. and hints that unless outstanding questions are arranged Japan will be forced to mobilise 700.000 men. . t , , It is expected that the introduction the Gordon stone drill will solve the Kami labor problem, since .a native working this ill mo hours achieves as much as 15 cool.es working one day. Xo settlement lias yet been readied in collection with the taking over ot tlie Eastern Extension Company s lasmanian cable by the 1* ederal Goveiiment. The company asks £30,000 for the cable buildings and the balance of the subsidy. In view of the possibility of negotiations breaking down, the Government obtained an estimate of the cost, of survey and two new cables. The surveys will cost about .0120 a day, while it is understood the cable will cost about £70,000. Extremely hot weather is being experienced in Adelaide. The temperature in the city yesterday was 10S degrees in the shade.