YESTERDAY’S CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2086, 11 January 1908, Page 4

YESTERDAY’S CABLES.

United Pross Association—Copyrigfe A 1110 b of unemployed werq foiled while attempting to invade Birmingham Conned house to capture and fast on the flavor to a pillar outside for declining to enforce the Unemployed Act, on the ground that- tho distress was not acute, Thero .are 10,00(1 unemployed in Glasgow. A vlee-regal commission lias been appointed to investigate the robbery of Crown jewels at Dublin Castle in July las-. An influential deputation representing the Alining Association ol Britain, urged various objections against the Government’s Miners’ .Eight Hours Bill, especially declaring that it must reduce the coal supply by 10 or 10 per cent., also that it would increase the price. Mr. Gladstone, Secretary of State for .Homo Affairs, replied that Parliament desired a limitation of hours. He admitted that the result would bo to raise price's. .Ho promised to do his best to liiul a basis of agreement satisfactory to employer and employed. . Sir Jas. Crichton Browne is iorining an association in London lor the extermination of rats. Several methods'will bo experimented with. Thirty-four Turkish battalions are concentrated near the. Turkish IronAdmiral Wilson is aboard M.M.fc*. Vengeance, experimenting at Jor|>av with a new aim corrector from a place on deck behind the armor, which is intended to supersede the exposed station from aloft. It successful it will revolutionise the lire control system. A bomb exploded on the outside <u tho residence of Mrs. Chadwick, a> landowner at Hallmark, Tipperary, following the eviction of a tenant. After the example of the editors and mayors, one hundred German pastors are visiting London in June. The Arehibishop of Canterbury aiul the Bight Hon. A. AY. F. Ingram, Bishop of London, are joining to accord them a welcome. The London Times capital has beiyi increased by £200,000. Tho shareholders include Lords Brassey, Rothschild, and Strathcona, Viscount lveagh, and Sir Alexander .Henderson. M. Seliollaert succeeds to the .Premiership of Belgium, the vacancy being caused by the death of the late Premier, M. do Trooz. Owing to the bad railway returns and other causes the deficit on the Prussian budget for 1907 amounts to 2’ millions sterling. The estimated expenditure for 1907 is .an increase of SO millions sterling. Part will be met by loan and part by an increase of income by the opening of fresh collieries. An explosion set lire to several houses at Comacetio, in the province of Ferrara, ltalv. Ten persons were killed. The Federal Government has declined the Eastern Extension Cable Company's terms in connection with the Tasmanian cable. Specifications for two new cables to be laid before a certain date in 1909 were sent Homo bv mail. ' The N.S.AY. Minister for Works, speaking at a function, said that if the Federal Government would only ask the State Government for tho Federal capital site, the Government would be able to reply in a very few hours. Beil Lomond, one of the finest estates on the New England tableland, X.S.W., is to be subdivided for closer settlement. The Sydney Labor Council lias passed a resolution to support the wharf laborers at Newcastle. Mr. Kavanagli, ex-president, raised the point whether the Council was consistent in doing so. The delegates had night after night- cried out in support of arbitration, and when a union which had an award made was dissatisfied with it and went on strike, the Council decided to support them. There have been further heavy rains in the north of Queensland, and railway traffic is much interfered with. The Rev. Air. Saxon, curate at St. Peter’s, Eastern Hill, Queensland, has been harmoniously invited, by the officers and crew of the Nimrod to accompany the expedition as chaplain. Mr. tSaxon joins a supplement' ... ar.v.vessel— . .