YESTERDAY’S CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2085, 10 January 1908, Page 4

YESTERDAY’S CABLES.

United Pross Association—CopyrigM Mr. .1). J. Shaekleton, owing to pressure of other duties, declines reelection to the c'hairmanslii]) of the British I’arliauientury Labor party. Mr. Shaekleton, addressing his const itueuks, advpqnteil raising 17 A millions yearly from all those whoso income were over £SOOO yeary towards old age pensions of 5s weekly. lie declared that those at the top could stand a little hit of without running short.

The Union Bank has declared a dividend of 10 per cent, uiid a tonus of 2 per cent. A sum of £.18,000 has been placed to the ciodit ol the colonial premises accounts; coiried to reserve, £80,000; carried' toward £BO,OOO. The balance-sheet of .11 abort Campbell and Sons shows a profit- of £-18,750. A dividend of 10 per cent was declared, and £80,758 carried forward. The British Board of Trado returns show that last year’s trade totalled CIG-1,051,000. The imports increased £50,029,258; re-exports were £G,SG9.GGI. . . , , ilt Improvements to the British battleship Collingwood have begun. They include raising a turret amidships, which enables an all round lire. A rapid thaw occurred m London. Tempests are raging on the British coasts. Berlin streets are a sea ot ice. One hundred pedestrians wero injured by falls, many soriously. The United States, by 5 to 4, declares that the Employers Liability Act is unconstitutional, and explains that Congress exceeded its powers when it inpiosed a liability upon common carriers for injury t<v,omployecs. The labor party rosolved to Agitato for the proper protection of workers. There is a growing feeling in Belgium against annexing the Congo. Many tribes arc in open revolt, and there is intermittent heavy fighting in many districts. . Five ‘Jack the Ripper” crimes have boon perpetrated in the streets of Berlin, including four children. The working cost of G 3 mines, representing 99 per cent of the cntiio tonnage of the Rand, is 20s per ton for November, compared with 22s Gd, the averago of previous years. A cable received in Sydney -aTmouncos the departure from Dundee ot Messrs Huddart Parker and Co’s now steamer Tnimaroa, built lor the Zealand trade. The steamer Queen Helena, from Honolulu, whilst passing the small island of Sophia, supposed to he umnhabitated, saw four men on tho beach. Tho steamer liove-to for some hours, and made signals, but no response was made, and she proceeded on her voyage. _ , . > , A mass meeting of Sydney wharf laborers decided, in .sympathy with the Newcastle wharf laborers not to handle tho cargo of vessels belonging to the North East Company, tho New'castle Company, or the Illawarra Company. The dispute is over rates, and the- question of reinstatement of certain men on the wharves. The heat wave in Adelaide diwh caused high temperatures.for a week, lias now abated. A fatal ease of plague is reported in Brisbane. The victim was a man working in a coal hulk .