YESTERDAY’S CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2097, 24 January 1908, Page 1

YESTERDAY’S CABLES.

United Press Association —Copyright The Royal British and Colonial Society of Artists interviewed Mr. Taverner. They complained of a breach of faith implied in the report that the Victorian Government intends to prohibit the sale of pictures donned. The Joshua Lako Society lias approached its members on the understanding that pictures would he exhibited in Australia before sale in the usual way. Tho Pall Mall Gazette states that the new directorate of the Times will bo composed of three members of tho Walters family, Mr. Edward Tennant, and Mr. C. A. Pearson. The question lias been left to the House of Lords whether Lord Curzon is entitled to a seat, as technically ho has failed to establish his right to vote at an election of representative peers. Hundreds of the members of tho Federated Shipbuilding Trades in the north-cast of England ' have struck

against an immediate Is per week reduction in time rates, with a further reduction in March. Twenty people wore -arrested at (leovah, Roscommon, Ireland, for participating in a riot and unlawful assembly and preventing the postal delivory of processes for rent. Democrats intend nominating Mr. Bryan at Denver, U. S. A. in July. Air 0. Hughes, Governor of New York, in a letter to the Republican Club, announces that he is willing to accept nomination for the Presidency against Mr. Taft. . South Coast tumors m N. S. VY. tire in dire straits through want ol rain. Sydney’s milk supply is threatened. Tho prico has been raised to sixponco por quart. Bush fires have isolated the west coast of Tasmania for eoino days past. A number of mining camps around Zeehun have been destroyed. A promntnro explosion at the Associated mine, Kalgoorlio, Western Australia, badly injured two men. One, a contractor named Watson, had both eyes blown out. Twelve thousand unemployed met nt Berlin and demanded that tho State .undertake , -building- work--at-, trado union wages, tho removal of food taxes, and also the immediate institution of municipal relief works. They repudiated tho acceptance of charity. Armed police provoked some disorder by unnecessary interference. Thinking that some of the unemployed wero trying to force a passage over tho bridge they drew sabres, and mercilessly slashed many until there wero pools of blood in the streets. The newspaper Vorwaerte estimates that there are 60,00 unemployed in Berlin.

Vladimir Krusehinsky, a Russian, has been arrested at Stockholm for attempting to change bank notes, the proceeds of tho Tiflis mail van robbery. Another suspect has been arrested at Genova.