YESTERDAY’S CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2142, 18 March 1908, Page 1

YESTERDAY’S CABLES.

The "Times” Vancouver correspondent states that the immigration situation is becoming an absurd and dangerous muddle. The Supremo Court of Canada discharged eighteen Hindoos on the ground that tho Natal Act is ultra vires. Under an order in Council a Gorman, who was quite a desirable immigrant, was refused admission because lie came from Australia. The attempt to prevent the granting of naturalisation papers to Japanese fishermen is causing more indignation among the Japanese than any other anti-Japanese movement on part of the British Columbia Government.

The Pall Mali Gazette, dealing with Mr. Deakiu’s recent speeches is entirely satisfactory. Mr Deakin candidly- faces the situation that Australia is more exposed to danger than any other part of the Empiro. The president- of the English institute of Chartered Accountants states that even if the time limit to a license is. just it would bo commercially impossible unless accompanied by a reduction of taxation. Mr. Hughes, Governor of the State of. New York, has promoted a waxwork exhibition in the Museum of Natural History, which reveals tho terrible congestion prevailing in the flats of New York. The conditions under which thousands of families sleep at night and work by day are shown to bo equal to those of tho worst sweating dens of the East of London for uncleanliness and wretchedness. Mistress Itobinson has been committed for trial. Dectivo Eado testified that ho was acquainted with the Robinson family in AYaimate. A police party in Thursday Island captured and snot two of tho murderers of Missionary Peter Bee, recently killed at Aurukum mission station. Owing to a number of planters in Kentucky, tI.S.A. acquiescing in tho tobacco tax, night rulers m -a. tew months destroyed ten million sterling worth of property. Thanks to . wireless telegraphy 600 passengers, including many women and children, were safely transferred from a burning steamer to another off City Island, Now York, m tho vicinity of tho General Slocum disaster. The Natal Minister’s minute to the Governor describes Mr. Jeliicoe’s letter as so patently false as to render it too contemptible for notice. The Emperor of China’s marriage linos have been discovered hanging to a tavern in Southern Germany. Tho document, which disappeared when the Germans entered Pekin palace in 1900, has now been restored to China.