YESTERDAY’S CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2131, 4 March 1908, Page 4

YESTERDAY’S CABLES.

A heavy snowstorm in Scotland caused several trains to bo embedded in drifts, one lor IS hours, near Runoch. There are heavy falls now in Loudon. »

Uungartens, Swiss-Ameriean engineers, have oll'ered to the American (iovernmeut for a million sterling an automatic, noiseless, smokeless, flashless gun. The Union Company has bought the Miowora, which is to be placed in the New Zealand trade, sailing on the lith. A hurricane, accompanied by heavy rain and hail, swept Windsor and Richmond, N.S.W. Groat damage was done to fruit and maize crops. The hail broke one hundred windows. A lump of ieo 101 l during the storm at Richmond. Two men wero stunned. Small animals wore injured. The South Maitland (N.S.W.) miners' lodges endorsed the resolution against taking ovideneo in camera. The voting of the whole of the lodges will he completed by Wednesday. It is expected a majority will ondorso the resolution. The Federal Customs excise rovenuo for eight months was £S,Oof),000, an increase of i 11,538,000 over the same period last year, New South Wales contributing to an inerenso of £710,000, and Victoria of £503,000. Representatives of the London Chamber of Commorco have arrived at Adelaide (S.A.) to interview the Federal Government with a view of obtaining a modification of the Bill dealing with patent medicines. Mr. Bowman has been re-elected leader of the Labor party in Queensland. The United States Secretary for tlie Navy is preparing an eetimato of the cost and duration of the visit in the event of Mr. Donkin’s invitation to Admira 1 Kva ns being accepted. Snow and had roads impede tho New York to Paris motorists'. They passed Chicago for San Francisco, where they embark for Alaska. Mr. Taft, in a non-party address at Brooklyn, U.S.A., urged congressional action empowering the President to nse force to compel the States to observe national treaties.

Tho proposed anti-Asiatic parade at Vancouver has been abandoned, in order to avoid riots

The police are seeking tho author of thirteen incendiary fires in Berlin. The fire brigades are kept incessantly on tho alert.

Tho Berlin Stettin ship canal, costing 2i million sterling, will be completed in 1912. The seven terrorists to which reference was made in the cable of the 29th, have been hanged, including Calvins. He is supposed to be a Polish Jew, though he was in possession of a passport from an Italian professor named Calvins.

Prussia’s Polish exappropriatiou law is deeply resented in Russia, being interpreted as an effort- to move eastwards.

Two million pounds are being spent on drainage at Cairo.