YESTERDAY’S CABLES,

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2114, 13 February 1908, Page 1

YESTERDAY’S CABLES,

Lord Crewe, in the Houso of Lords, stated that M. Izouleky bad handed the .ambassador a. document admitting that Russia had not denied Britain’s position in the Persian Gulf.. Lord Ctimni’s motion was withdrawn. Lord Sanderson emphasised that this was the first occasion Fiat Russia had reciprocated -the desire for the settlement of the group of Asiatic questions. Lord Lamlsdowne took -a similar viow. He remarked that ho, wito some exceptions, viewed tho agreement- as a whole with satisfaction, though he did not th'iik the Convention as .regarded Persia to be favorable. Britain’s neutral zono was likely t.o bo n great, advantage • o Russia. Tlie success of the convention depended on Russia's loyal interpretation. Thus upheld, 'the convention would consolidate peace.

Lord Crewe said lie was glad tho judgment of the House as a wholo was favorable. He insisted that- the details were advantageous to both countries, and would 'tend to tho world’s peace. Moderate Liberal members ot the House of Commons passed a resolution that they were confident the Government would preserve the defences of the Empire in a sane of complete efficiency. They deprecated any pressure on the Government to modify the naval estimates, n inch the Government’s deliberate judgment approves.

The London Daily Graphic rej oris that the G ovorument proposes an increase of one million and a hair in the naval estimates and som3 reduction. in tho army estimates, reducing the number with tho colors. Voltheim, at the Old Bailey, denied that there was any blackmailing. He testified that he sinp,y demanded what was promised when he arranged with Barney Barnato the details of a plot to cause a split among the Boers by means of a pseudo B-oer revolution in 1 5.)7 to de pose Kruger in favor of som ; other prominent Boer. This would have obviated the war and on a filed Barnato to make huge sums in shorn jobbing on the eve of the l'avoir r.ion. Herbert Samuel’s Bill to protect juveniles and . juvenile offenders, establish special courts and pl u.es for detention of children, anolisb imprisonment of children, v-ofect infant life, and prevent jtivea le sucking, has been read a first time. * *.< Mr Churchill informed (.< lone! Ma clearness that- Diiuzulu’s trial would bo before, tho Supreme f.oi rt. He informed Mr AY. Redmjiid that in view of the conditions attached to Dinizulu’s return to South Africa, Lord Elgin was bound to give earnest and persistent attention c.uruig tho whole course of the trial. A number of Bathans and Punjaub Indians assaulted Air Giisndi and other leaders of Asiatics in tho Tiunsvaal as the latter were proceeding to voluntarily register themselves.

Tho Capetown Argus sevjrdy condemns Mr Jellicoe's precipitate action as a menaco to Natal’s peace and an ; encouragement to. the enemies of -tho English colonist. The . Zakkeo Ivliels number -iOOO They arc extremely unpopular. f ith all their neighbors. The bodies of Carlos and Lpiz Lae been transferred to the Royal vault. The Daily Telegraph Is- -Lisbon correspondent states that 300,000 viewed the remains. Messrs Fallow-fields, lessees of Albrothos Islands, have issued warning to trespassers'. This is -the outebmb of the -failure of the negotiations with the underwriters in regard to salvage of -the wreck AYiiidsor. The chairman of the underwriters- states the Fallow fields’ terms for' salvage are extortionate. 'Legal proceedings are likely to take place. A number of men m the em-plo” of the Union Box Co. and Austral Timber Co.’s works, Sydney, have,ceased work in sympathy with a strike of casual bauds. The strike is expected to become general, in the timber trade to-morrow, when 1600 'permanent and casual hands go out. Tho Newcastle mines are -working. The Victorian,Senate requests the -House to restore a duly of a shilling per owt. on hay and chaff. A national congress of unemployed at -St. l/ouis made >a demand .to be State-supported during the period of inactivity like soldiers, and to have free transportation when seeking employment, also the appropriation of LoO million- dollars for organisation work for the idle. If nothing is done a monster march to AYasliington is proposed. . . . Air. Taft, iu Kansas City, insisted that vigorous action and measures were necessary to eradicate the existing business abuses. Unless effective social and-moral .reforms were secured, society as -at present constituted must yield to the new order ot things on a Socialistic basis- , Twentv thousand whites at Bioo haven, Mississippi, overpowered a posse of de-mity sheriffs as a company of State militia were'sseortinfe, to court a negro accused ot an out- ’ rage on iv tvesipectublo young, an Into woman. Some shots were hrecl, miurino- two of the crowd. ho »e----gro was hanged from a- telegraph : ’°Mr El ill n Boot and M. Jussieraude 'French Ambassador, have signed a projected treaty .agreeing to arbitration on any issue arising between France and America.