YESTERDAY’S CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2141, 17 March 1908, Page 1

YESTERDAY’S CABLES.

Mr J. S. Faulkner, of Geelong Victoria, who was sent to England by sympathisers with tho Rev. O. 11. Nash, formerly incumbent of Christ Glut roll, Geelong, to invest'igato charges of misconduct against Nash while curato at Huddersfield, York, made prolonged inquiries, and states that lie lias not yet been ale to find and trace of anything to justify a charge of any kind against Nash. Dr. Noule, Bishop of Durham, informed Mr. Faulkner that ho could not, recall (lie source of his statement to the Archbishop of Sydney in regard to misconduct on part of Nash. He accepted the writers bona fides at the time, but must now consider the statement to‘have been baaed upon minor. Mr Faulknor lias not yet seen Canon Bardsley, who was vicar at Huddersfield when Nash was curate tliero. Ounou Bardsley has given other details of serious gravity respecting an incident which happened in his (Canon Bardsley’s) family. The ineidaut, Canon Bardsley states, led to Nash’s expulsion from tho vicarage, and to Bardsley’s intervention to prevent Nash’s promotion. Mr Lloyd George, speaking atCarnarvon,_ England, said that (ho I‘wtonts Bill was already briugi'ig inlr the country many foreign industries. Ho anticipated that it- would so m provide employment for tens of ibcusands of British workmen.

The London “Daily Mail” slates that the Beyer Company, with a capital of thirteen millions sterling, representing Elberfields, Berlin £n.l otter companies, havo bought twenty-four acres in Cheshire, and are establishing an analine factory. Governor Noufflard lias been appointed French Consul at the Now Hebrides, in order that the French representative will havo equal rank with tho British. Governor Noufflard has had a distinguished career. After ten investigations in London, Mr Justice Eacly made an order that tho Rev. Mr Robins be removed from the trusteeship of tlie, Townsliend heirlooms. The Marquis gave remarkable evidence respecting the sales of many heirlooms. The Court- ordered an inquiry, and condemned the Rev. Mr Robins to pay tho cost of the heirlooms which have disappeared.. A creep has occurred in block fourteen, Broken Hill, N.S.W. Tho railway line, which runs through the block to the British mine, has been left suspended tlireo feet in the air. Tliero is little damage underground. News from tho Islands state that tho attack made on AVcllings, purser of tho South Australian, was unpremeditated. He was walking with several others, when a native lie had never seen before struck him with an axe, almost severing his arm. Gangrene set in. Tlie German Federal Council sanctioned Herr Dernberg’s scheme to construct 900 miles of railway at a cost of seven and a half million sterling in African colonies. The Union liner Newart Castle has been hopelessly wrecked at North Durban. Tho crew and passengers were saved.

The N.S.W. Minister of Defenco said the visit of tho American fleet would bo most gratifying to Australia, milling: “Wo feel our future in the Pacific bound up in that of America. Mr Deakin, in conclusion of a speech on National Defence, said the American fleet would receive a welcome such as they had never seen outside their own country.