YESTERDAY'S CABLES,

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2108, 6 February 1908, Page 4

YESTERDAY'S CABLES,

Tlio Council of tho Moreau tilo Marino Service Company Association, England, complains that the Australian Navigation Bill occasionally, but unavoidably, .in tor fort's with the prerogatives of the Board of Trades. Tho Con noil protests against section 369 of the Bill, and desires the revision of parts relating to Courts of .Marino Enquiry. Tho clause provides that, if a certificate has been cancelled by an Australian Court of Marine Inquiry the fact that, the certificate has boon returned to tho officer by the Board of Trade or the authority which originaally granted it. other than a Court of Appeal, shall not enable tho said master or oHioer to serve on a ship in Australia in tho capacity specified in tho cancelled certi lien to. The London Daily Mall reports that Master J. A. Bonner, In Chambers, dismissed a civil action brought by Hollumbv Druco againt Lord Howard Do Walden, claiming the estates which he obtained from tho Portland estates. Mr. Arnold Stratluun, who appeared for Mr. Druco, gavo notieo of appeal. ‘.‘Miss” Tiobinson, who was arrested on charges of perjury and conspiracy in connection with tho evidence given by her in the Druco case, has made a full conlcssion as to committing perjury when she was giving evidence. . A Gorman expedition has discovered rich phosphates at Fai, one of the West Carolines, and at Angauer, in the Below group. Mr. Runcimnti, Secretary of toe Treasury, announced in tho House of Commons that Raisuli was bringing Sir 11. Mac Loan to Tangier lnunediatelv. , T . , Mr. Long moved that the Irish regulation through which cattle-driv-ing war, chocked was not the result of vigorous administration, but or some compromise between the Gove mm out tin cl Nationalists. Ho dwelt on the increase ot shooting and agrarian outrages, and emphasised the torrbilo boycotting, yet tho Government sat with folded hands, when possessed of an effective instrument in tho Crimes Act. . Mr. Birr ell made a vigorous dofence. lie affirmed that the permanent, peace and prosperity of Ii eland depended on tho settlement of tho land question and the speedy acquisisition of mitenaiited land for distribution in economic holdings. Cattledriving did not torify him, hut tho price of land and stock, the possibilitv of bad seasons, and tho rear of disappointing land-hungry people did Tho executive had worked tho ordinary law with tho utmost vigor. Tho fact that juries sympathised with cattle-drivers did not justify dispensing with juries and resoituig to coercion. Ho indignantly denied entering into a corrupt bargain with bishops in regard to university education. Ho would bo a monster if ho stood asido and allowed crime to continue in order to bolster Homo Rule. Ho did not believo tho Crimes Act. would stop outrages, and he flatly refused to put the statute into force. The United States Supreme Court unanimously decided that an emplover lias a right to recover damages from Labor Unions amounting to thrice the loss sustained by blacklisting and boycotting manufacturers’s goods. Boys at Dudley colliery struck, and caused a stoppage. The Special Court Judge severely condemned the action, and asked whether the Miners’ Federation could not severely deal with those who rebelled against its authority. Ho seriously thought of resigning his position. Ho adjourned the Court till to-morrow to allow of tho bovs returning to work. Arrived, H.M.S. rowerful. A wireless message was received last night by H.M.S. Pyscho in Farm Cove, from the Pioneer ,at W cllington, tho Powerful being tho repeater at sea. The distance at which the Powerful was away from Wellington _.. IjhU 'oIu? 'gvb -Liao meboago liCtU uot been disclosed, but the vessel arrived within 12 or 14 hours after receipt of the message in Sydney. The wireless experiment with New Zealand was not entirely successful. Tho Powerful got out of touch with New Zealand and Australia for six hours, losing the New Zealand side on Sunday night. The Sydney City Council has decided, through President Roosevelt, to invite Admiral Evans’ fleet to visit Sydney. The prospectus is being privately circulated in Adelaide of a limited liability company, entitled “Christian Colonists, Limited,” with a capital of one million, in £1 shares. . It is to found a Christian colony in connection with the trans-continental railway proposal. Scriptural phraseology and other persuasive means are employed in tho prospectus to induce the public to subscribe. Tho locality of the proposed colony is not stated.

The ship Eclipse foundered, and three of the crew perished. The captain and the rest of tho crew arrived at Honolulu after great privations. A steamer rescued 35 of tlio crew.

FREEMANTLE, February 5

The Koromiko’s superphosphates will be dumped into tho sea, being useless. The loss is £3600.

A company of the Foreign Legion were surprised and scattered by a snowstorm near Fort Lass a, Algiers. Twenty-one dead bodies have already been recovered, and others are missing-.

The steamer St . Cuthbert was burned at Cape Sable, Canada. Fifteen of the crow were rescued. The others had previously been drowned.