GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2088, 14 January 1908, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

united Press Association—Copyright (Received Jan. 13, 10.33 p.m.) LONDON, Jan. 13. The wife of Charles ltushworth, solicitor, York, has been sentenced to nine 'months’ imprisonment for cruelty and shocking neglect of two uiopted girls, 1-1 and 13 years of age. Doth were drudges in the housework. One was punished by lifting her clothes and burning her flesh with a hot iron. The husband, w}jo is secretary of the York Education Committee, was lined £SO for failing to become acquainted with tho condition of the children. The case aroused intense popular feeling. (Received Jan. 13, 9.45 p.m.) PER LIN, Jan. 13, The split in the Navy League is duo to Herr Keim’a campaign under Prince Von Lulow’s auspices against the Catholic party at the general election. The Berlin and'.Brands-, burg branches of tho League urge iieiT Jveini to resign. Thirty thousand Socialists held 10 Jiiniltaneous franchise processions in Berlin. Some demonstration was unde against Prince Von Bulow. The processions were orderly, but at several points the polico came into serious collision with the people. A hundred were injured, some receiving sabro wounds.

MASSOWAH, Jan. 13. King Menelik was astonished and grieved, on learning from the Italian Charge D’Affaires at Addisabilia of tho violation of tho status quo at Lugli, and expressed his deepest regret. Ho renewed his professions of friendship with Italy, and ho laid the whole responsibility on the rebellious Ambara chiefs, and he promises to recall any Abyssinia ns remaining at Lugh and the Benadir Hinterland. He will mute out exemplary punishment. to the guilty, and he indemnifies the sufferers. LONDON. Jan. 13.

Consumptive patients have been successfully operated on in London and the Continent.

King Edward has expressed his horror at the Barnsley accident and”" his warmest sympathy with the parents.

(Received Jan. 13, 10.21 p.m ) RIO JANEIRO, Jan. 13. Admiral Evans’ fleet has reached here.

NEW YORK, Jan. 13. President Roosevelt calculates that Hie Republican Convention will give Mr. Taft 600 votes, ensuring combination at the first ballot.

Reuter’s correspondent at Ottawa says it is officially stated that the Union Steamship Company declined the previous terms for the conveyance of mails between Australia and Canada. Canada declined to increase the subsidy. Probably the service will be continued tentatively bv the present contractors until negotiations for the All-Red service are settled.

PRETORIA, Jan. 13. Mr. Botha has transformed the sentences on the Indians from hard labor into simple imprisonment. The Randfontein Estates Company* has issued a million 6 per cent, pro-fit-sharing certificates. (Received Jan. 13, 10.27 p.m.) MOROCCO, Jan. 13. The deposition of Abdul Aziz and the proclamation of Mulai Hafid at Fez is a Nationalist movement, due to Abdul Aziz asking the Ulema of Fez to sanction the beeping of Christian troops in reasserting his authority. A little beyond Rabat is in the hands of Abdul Aziz. Even there the population is hostile to him. General Lamade is advancing towards Rabat to protect the Spanish Mission and the European residents. LONDON, Jan. 13. The Times’ Paris correspondent asserts that it is the concensus of opinion that Muliai Halid's permit of a holy war against all Europeans should impel the Powers to support Abdul Aziz, who is a guarantee for Europe in the execution of the Acts of the AJgeciras conference.