YESTERDAY’S CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2134, 7 March 1908, Page 4

YESTERDAY’S CABLES.

Earthquake .shocks were felt in England, at Andover, Swindon, and Hungorford. Anarchists threatened Archbishop Farley, of Now Aork, and Cardinal Gibbons, of Baltimore, with death. Tho strike at Cardiff colleries in Western Australia has been settled, tho employers paying increased wages. The. Chekiang railway loan dispute has been settled, this being the last serious question between Britain and China. The Czar has pardoned fifteen prisoners condemned at Odessa for participating in anti-Jewish pogroms at Tixaspol. Lord Overtoun lias_ bequeathed £61,000 to religious and charitable societies, including £25,000 to the United Free Church. King Leopold is abolishing forced labor, in his Congo domain, and +ho Government are doing likewise in the Congo Free State. A train thief has been identified at Romo at the assailant of Aliss Low, murderously robbed on the train express on January 14. 1908. King Menelik of Abyssinia, lias imprisoned the chiefs who were responsible for the recent Benadir raids and appointed their successors. Aliss" .Margaret Alcott, once an actress in Australia, under the name of Miss Leighton, committed suicide on tho Aletropolitan railway in London. Thirty thousand pounds’ worth ol bank notes and shares have been stolen from Herr Aleyerstein, a resident of Giessen, while in a train at Cologne station. The Premier of Queensland is trying to make arrangements for the Labor party’s support. It is reported that the Labor party is driving a hard bargain. King Edward has started on a visit to Biarritz. The Queen is detained in England at present owing to the visit of the Empress-Dowager Alarie of Russia.

The engineers’ ballot, by a large majority, rejected Mr Lloyd George’s proposed terms of settlement. Air George and Air G. N. Barnes, secretary of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers, are again .conferring. Owing to the serious increase ofcrime in all large cities the Immigration Commissioner is consulting the police with the view of co-opera-tion in ridding the United States of alien anarchists under -the deportation law.

I Herr Dernberg in the German Reichstag admitted that grave abuses existed im the Cameroous in con■necting with the rubber trade. He premised to try and protect villagers by settling them on agricultural areas away from the caravan routes. The Victorian Chief Secretary states that the gaol population, of the State is 600 less than it was 32 years ago, though the population has in'oreased half a million. The Government has had to close the gaols in three centres. One was turned into a butter factory. The upsetting of candles set fire to tho timbering in the Hampstead > colliery, Birmingham. Nine minors traversed the flames and escaped. Twenty-one returned to the workings. A rat lowered to test- the atmosphere was brought up alive. Later two men were rescued in a state of semiconsciousness, but are recovering. They stated that the shutting of the doors prevented tho smoke reaching their comrades. It is hoped all aro safe. In tho House of Commons Sir F. J. Leese moved that as the high price of bread, was due to natural causes the levying of an import duty on wheat would aggravate suffering and cause dear bread. Mr J 5. A. Golding moved an amendment declaring that the high price was due to natural causes and. the neglect of British resources. He expressed an opinion that a re-arrangement of duties on food products should he made with a view to. encourage agriculture at home, giving preference to the colonies, and stimulating tho productive power of the Empire. He censured the Government for refusing to stimulate the production of wheat within the Empire by granting the colonies preference. Mr Lloyd George, President of the Board of Trade, said Germany was supplying a sufficient warning against the adoption of the amendment. There an eleven shillings duty was paid on all imported wheat. The same duty was paid unon. German home grown wheat. Mr Golding’s amendment was rejected by 293 to 90, and the debate was adjourned.