CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 1980, 16 January 1907, Page 2

CABLES.

rnESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRICIIT. LONDON, January 14. Tho Duke of Abruzzie lectured before the Royal Geographical Society, describing bis exploration to Mount Rawonzori, Central Africa. King Edward and the Prince of Wales wero present. The former warmly applauded tho exp'orer’s courago and coolness. Freeman’s Journal declares that Mr Birrcll’s appointment will increase tho anxiety of Ireland respecting the nature of tho impending legislation. Obituary : Sir James Francis Garrick, ox-Agent-General for Queensland. The Dukes of Norfolk and Bedford, Mr Walter Long. Sir G. Taubman Goldie. Field-Marshal White, General Sir Redvers Bullcr, and others have formed a non-political National Defence Association, to deal mainly with the land forces and defence of oversea dominions. Branches are boing formed throughout tho Empire. At billiards, in a match 6000 level, Inman beat Weiss by 1229. TOKIO, Jan. 14The two years’ servico scheme will yield an increase to the Japanese army of 150,000 men in ton years. NEW YORK, Jan, 14. Four firms tendered to supply labor for the construction of the Panama Canal, based on the total cost of the canal. Tho tenders ranged from 0J to 28 per cent., tho firm of Oliver and Bangs boing the lowest.

BUCHAREST, Jan, 14. A Bulgarian steamer loaded with arms, supposed to be for tho Maccdodonians, has been wrecked near Sulina, Roumania. The erew fled MELBOURNE, Jan. 15. London and South African firms have placed orders for 500,000 ducklings, chickens, and turkevs. The reason assigned for Victoria capturing tho orders is the strict system of State grading. The Mount Lycll returns for the period from December O to January 1, inclusive, show 31,504 tons of ore treated, also 365 tons of purchased ore, yielding 506 tons of blister copper, containing copper 500 tons, silver 54,180 ounces, gold 1411 ounces. ADELAIDE, January 15. The strike in tho building trade has ended and work has been resumed under a mutual agreement. Received 9.33 p.m., Jan. 15. NEW YORK, Jan. 15.

President Roosevelt, in a message to Congress, admitted tho invalidity of his order prohibiting and disbanded Brownsville negro troops obtaining employment in the Civil Service. CALCUTTA, Jan. 15.

The Ameer ascended a military balloon. His tactful and courteous demeanor is creating a most favourable impression. Received 11.6 p.m., Jan. 15. SYDNEY, Jan. 15.

The New South Rugby Union has received from the English Union an invitation for tho Australian team to visit Britain in the 1908 season. Tho wool market is active and firm. Good crossbreds are in strong demand. Two lots of greasy brought 16Jd and 16d respectively, records for the season. MELBOURNE, Jan. 15. The Lord Mayor has gone to Sydney, en route to the Christchurch Exhibition. BRISBANE, Jam 15. ' The revenue of the Mount Morgan Co.' last half-year was £448,000. The profit ,after paying £75,000- in dividends and other charges, amounted to, £78,678.

THE YACHT RACE. MELBOURNE, January 15. Ten started in the yacht race. There was a fresh south-west breeze. Tlie sea was lumpy, Tlie course was triangular, measuring 21 miles. Fancy and Sayonara were the first to cross the line, Rawhiti to windward following. Sayonara was the first to come about, and attempted unsuccessfully to mu across Rawlriti’s bows. Sayonara was going faster than Rawhiti, hut the latter was not making so much leeway. The New Zealander rounded tlie first buoy Sniin 25see ahead of Sayonara. There was little alteration in the positions to the second buoy. Rawhiti came down the third side of the triangle with .Sayonara half a mile behind, and Heather a good mile further back. Rawhiti passed the post smiu ssee ahead of Sayonara, the latter heating Heather by llmin. S.J.S. finished fifth, but time allowance placed her first, with Heather second, Rawhiti third. Fedina fourth. Savonara fifth. SYDNEY. Jan. 15. Yesterday’s race placed Rawhiti, Heather, S.J.S. on equality, each having secured four points. Sayonara did not start to-day. The owners, realising that she was flying too light, intend putting twenty-five hundred weight of lead into her, remeasuring her before competing >n the Sayonara Cup event. The details of to-day's race are missing.

SHELTERING MISCREANTS. ATTACKS ON BRITAIN. Received 9.1 S p.m., Jan. 15. BERLIN, Jan. 15. Apropos of another conspiracy against the King of Spain, German newspapers bitterly’ attack Britain for harboring international miscreants who make London the headquarters of their organising operations. They declare that Britain is becoming a public nuisance, oven a danger to the world, through harboring murderous revolutionaries.

ARMY REFORM. Received 9.30 p.m., Jan. 15. LONDON, Jan. 15. Air. Haldane, speaking at Liverpool stated that ho was undertaking armyreform by instalments. He believed the new organisation just announced to be very good. It was initiated by the general staff. He boiled that Parliament would sanction liis scheme for bringing volunteers in closer touch with the fighting line of the regular army. AMERICAN TRUSTS. A BIG CLAIAI. Received 9.30 p.m., Jan. 15. NEW YORK, Jan. 15. The receiver of the Philadelphia Real Estate Trust Coy-., which recently- failed, is proceeding against the Sugar Trust, claiming four million pounds damages, on the ground that the Trust deliberately wrecked the Company, and drove Hippie, the manager, to commit- suicide.

LABOR TROUBLES. A BIG LOCK-OUT. Received 9.33 p.m., Jan. 15. BERLIN, Jan. 15. Fifteen thousand wood-workers have been locked out in Berlin, owing to wage differences. In connection with the lock-out, Socialists profess themselves delighted that the army- agitation has been let loose on the eve of an election. Government are trying to counteract this by- forecasting an early increase of wages to all in the Imperial Prussian Civil Service,

HAGUE CONFERENCE. DISARMAMENT- QUESTION. Received 10.59 p.m., Jail. 15. LONDON, Jan. 15. Japanese Statesmen now favor discussing the disarmament question at the 1-laguo Convention. Britain, United States, and France are also favourable. Germany and Austria oppose, and Russia an(l Italy are doubtful. All tho small nations are favourable,.

THE NEW SHAH. “SEVERED HEADS THE BEST POLICEMEN.” Received 9.30 p.m., Jan. 15. TEHERAN, Jan. 15. The Shah is rigorously enforcing order. Ho declared that a few severed heads are the best policemen. THE CHANNEL TUNNEL. Received 10.59 p.m., Jan. 15. PARIS ,Jan .15. French commercial classes aro much dismayed at tho adverse comments of English newspapers and military experts on the Channel‘tunnel proposal.

AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA. ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 14. Ine cashier of tho Treasury i: Arnicata, Russian Central Asia, has absconded with £374,000. The Okhta raid was due to an anarchist plot on Count Witte’s life. Russia is coming on the market with a loan of over twenty million pounds. . The Czar’s autograph letter to M. Kokoystoff refers to the improved financial condition of tho country. ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 15.' Eight machine guns have disappeared from the fortress'of Tashkent?. Revolutionaries aro suspected. M. Stolypin, interviewed, slated that the Czar has resolved to renounco the bureaucratic system if Douma will co-operate.

OUTBREAK OF ANTHRAX. DEATHS OF TWO MEN. . SYDNEY. Jan. 15. Two men died from anthrax at Cootamundra. contracted the disease whilst skinning cattle. Twentyeight cattle succumbed. murderous burglars. ENGLISHWOMEN SERIOUSLY INJURED. ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 14. Armed burglars at Kerteh, nearly throttling' Mrs. Hamilton and Miss Garston, her niece, stole a large sum of money and much jewellery, and decamped Without waking the servants. Thirty-nine have been captured. Several were identified and sentenced to ho shot. ROME, Jan. 14. Miss Susan Howe, an Englishwoman, travelling from Genoa to Paris, was murderously attacked and robbed before reaching Mont Cerdr tunnel. Her assailant escaped. Tlie victim is in a critical state.

BAD WEATHER. SEN SATIONA L EXPERIENCES. ' V, : ■ , SYDNEY, Jam 15. ihe hot weather is giving place to much needed rain. . -A flood at Cooma Las done considerable damage to the crops, and a number ol sloe kliave been drowned. A man named Butler was drowned while crossing a creek. Press Association. AUCKLAND, yesterday. News continues to arrive from the country districts of damage caused by heavy rain and floods. Numbers of bridges have been washed away, crops damaged, and in some cases mined.

A heavy gale occurred last night, and disorganised shipping in port. The small craft suffered a good deal, hut no serious damage is reported. . At Arclihill lightning struck, a tree and splintered it. A four-roomed house in Gibraltar Crescent, owned, by Mrs. Mullins, of Papakiira, and occupied by Mr. C. Green and family, was struck by lightning daring a severe thunderstorm early this morning. About a -qnarter-past 4 the family were aroused by the house rocking, as though in an earthquake, followed by the crashing of bricks, on the roof, caused by the falling chimney. Green, upon rushing one to ascertain the nature of the trouble. found the kitchen and parlor full of dense, sulphurous fumes, while a largr search /outside revealed that the chimney had been struck by a lightning bolt and demolished, while the current, apparentlv splitting on the iron roof, had run down several metal pipes to the ground, in one or two cases rending the metal, without, however, fusing it. scorching and splitting the boards of the house. None of the inmates were injured. Bricks from the falliim chimney f e l] through the kitchen next door and smashed a quantity of crockery.

A slip of earth in the approach to tile Newmarket tunnel caused a delay to trains early- this morning. The line between Pupakura and Huuua has been flooded, preventing traffic. Hie Rotorua express did not leave, so that communication with the Wai- ; kato is now shut off. Lightning struck two houses at Gibraltar Crescent, Parnell, scorching the woodwork and knocking down a chimney, but doing no other damage. Reports of wash-outs on the Waikato railway- are continually- being received. The traffic department states that there are forty miles of u ash-outs between Manurewa and laupiri, where traffic is entirelv suspended. It is doubtful if the Rotorua express can run to-morrow. The wash-outs are not serious, and can soon be repaired if the weather breaks. Alail services are completelydisorganised in the. province. Auckland is isolated from Taumaranui, the \\ est Coast, also Tauranga, Ihe postmaster at Te Awamutu reports that the Alain Trunk line lias • been seriously- damaged by- slips. No mails have been through since Saturday. Otorohango township is flooded. The bridge was destroyed. Alany residents were rescued from their houses in boats. At the isolated post office near Te Awamutu the postmaster had to swim to his office. The rain shows no sign of clearing.

HAMILTON, yesterday. -Heavy rams are falling, and‘the Avaikato and other rivers are in high flood. Several householders on the low-iyjng land had to remote. The pumping station, in connection with tin? town supply, has been flooded, and a serious shortage of water is feared. Telegraphic MDinmunication with country districts is interrupted. Very serious damage has been done to crops. The floods are the liea viest since 18/3. CAAIBRIDGE. y-osterday. An unprecedented rainfall has occurred during the last two days. Tlio Waikato river is higher than for the last- thirty- years, and is still rising. Immense damage lias been done to the grain crops. NEW PLYMOUTH, yesterday. - Over .seven inches of rain has fa'llon .here since January Ist, more than four inches being recorded on tho 13th and 14th instant. The weather is still unsettled, and is 'oppressively ELTHAM, yesterday. Owing to the heavy rains of "the past three days, combined, with tho beat, there, has boon a great development of blight in potatoes. Fields hitherto considered clean are now badly- affected. Hie recent drought has scarcely- affected the dairy- indus“'Y }. u , 1!S district, as is shown by the 1 act that' the Eltharn Dairy Company- will pay suppliers £IO,OIO for December, an increase of £753 as compared with the same month last year.

HASTINGS, yesterday. , i,K : consistent rain that lias "fallen since Saturday bus done a vast amount oi good in the country. In most places grass-seed is lying in the paddocks, oats arc still in stock, and bailey crops, winch have not vet been cut, have been lowered to the ground.- lh© prospects for an -abundance oi winter feed is now considered good. DUNEDIN, yesterday, i I , i weather is dull and oppressive, but there is no sign of rain. At Cromwell yesterday tho day- was ' ■ < ; vor experienced in’Genii al Dingo, the thermometer registermg lib m the sun and 95 in tho shade. „„ .MASTERI'ON, yesterday. J lie At aingawa river is flooded, tho water being two feet deep over the road at the northern approach to the bridge, which it is feared will bo carried away if the' flood continues. g<;"l INVERCARGILL, last night. ' Although drought did not disastrously- affect tlie crops in Southland, where oats are really good, turnips above average, and potatoes excellent, a shower of mild warm rain to-day wns welcomed all over the district, and should ensure an abundant harvest, .

HEAVY RAINS IN. THE NORTH. TAURANCA, last night. The Pongakawu Bridge has carried away, and the Kaitemuho Bridge is afloat, thoro being continuous rain for tho last eight days. All crons are lost. It is still raining, and mails are nnablo to get through. It is expected that damage to country roads will bo considerable. AUCKLAND, last night. Floods continue to cause great damage to country districts about Auckland and Waikato. Farmers appear to have suffered most, hay, oats and potato crops worth thousands of pounds having been destroyed. Railway communication is interrupted in various places. Bridges have boon swept away, and lowlying country is under water. Tho rain in most places is abating, and so far no loss of stock is reported. WELLINGTON, last, night, Rain foil steadily in tho city nil day to-day. but ceased in tho evening. The downfall has been welcome oin tlie suburbs, whore shortago of ' water was very pronounced. After a brief respite last night welcomo rain set in, this time from tho northwards, and has fallen steadily all day.