YESTERDAY’S CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2097, 25 January 1908, Page 4

YESTERDAY’S CABLES.

L'niieel Press Association —Copyright The Victorian Senate Ins been called. Tito second reading ol tho TarilV Hill coinmencrd with consideration of tho schedule. The estate Govern men t agreed to pay the South Vustralian Government i:10i,000 tor the strip of disputed territory on the border, subject to the approval ot the Parliaments of both States. When the Hinemoa was towed ott, after stranding at i<oriie, the captain deckled to sail to port without the aid of tugs. After proceeding some hours the crew became dissatisfied with the captain’s navigation, and ilie command was tranlerred to the first ollicer. The captain admits that command was taken Ironi him because lie carried too much sail. The names of the new hundreds >aro gazetted in W.A. Tho Government have given the name of “Seddon to one to perpetuate in Australia the memory of New Zea land’s late Prime. Minister. At the convention of the pirated States Boards of Trade meeting at Washington it was resolved that the commercial interests of tho country required prompt legislation to reestablish the American mercantile marine service on a better footing. L-ord Kitchener’s sister-in-law, widow of Arthur Kitchener, avhilo suffering from insomnia, climbed through' the pol't-liolo of the steamer Magdalena at Colon, and' was drowned. Slio was about to visit Colonel Kitchener at Jamaica. Owing to the improvement of finances in the United States, Air. Cortelvou is gradually withdrawing the deposits oi' public money made with tin' public banks during the crisis. Princo Bulow, in the Reichstag, declined to discuss the Prussian franchise, which he said concerned the Diet alone. The Government were determined at all costs to preserve law and order in tho streets. He warned workers not- to follow agitators 'inul sacrifice their own skins. This statement was greeted with cheers from the Right, and Socialist hisses and groans. The court-mart ial of Ilolaenhau and Lynar, on a charge of scandalous conduct, is proceeding in camera- at Berlin. , , . Mohammedans at Lahore urged the Viceroy to press Lord Elgin o remove the indignities placed on Indians in the Transvaal. . Thirty-one Japanese tor Mexico were not allowed to hand at Biitisii Columbia. , , , A sharp earthquake has boon experienced at Branca Leono, in tho province of Porazzano, Italy.