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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2017, 28 February 1907, Page 2

CABLES tI IES3 ASSOCIATION COPTRIGHT. LONDON, Feb. 26. Mr. McKenna has announced the new Education Bill, comprising controversial clauses of the old Act. A committee has been appointed, with Lord Farrer as Chairman, to inquire into the practicability and desirableness of the post office providing facilities in connection with savings bank for employes’ insurance .under the Workmen’s Compensation Act. The Chronicle emphasises the need of an Intelligence Bureau, as supplementary to periodical Imperial Conferences. The Daily Telegraph eulogises Mr. Haldane for placing territorials under regular Major-Generals. The proposals regarding the volunteers are the best ever propounded. The Daily Mail says it is a great and statesmanlik? scheme. The Standard says that provision against the unexpected is painfully absent. The Daily News is not enthusiastic. It doubts if further economy in pursuance of the mandate of the country is possible without abandonment of linked battalions. Sir It. Sutherland, in an enterview respecting Mr. Chapman’s assertions about influences operating against the new mail contract, declined to add anything to his statement at the Peninsula and Oriental Company’s meeting in December. Mr. Haldane, in reply to Mr Hunt, said 26, Soo,ooolb of colonial and 31,500,0001 bof foreign preserved meats had been bought for the army in 38 months ending May, 1902; 400,0001 b of colonial and 1,250,0001 b of foreign from 1903 to 1904; 52,000 lb colonial and 1,000,0001 b foreign from 1904 to 1905; 280,0001 b colonial and 1,500,0001 b foreign from 1905 to 1906; 26,9881 b colonial and upwards of 2,000,000 of foreign since April last. Alexander Barneveld was sentenced to 15 months at the Old Bailey for embezzling money from Gilbert McCaul and Company, Australian merchants. His defalcations extended over 14 years. BERLIN, Feb. 26. Prince von Bulow, speaking in the Reichstag, fiercely assailed the Centre for coalescing with the Socialists, who were trampsters on everything a Christian holds sacred. The Government did not intend to be muzzled, but if shot at would shoot again. NEW YORK, Feb. 26. Mrs. Thaw, cross-examined, admitted that when she returned to Europe, Thaw paid her New York hotel expenses, yet she continued to attend dinner parties in White’s rooms. She lived with Thaw as his wife early in 1904, Both were expelled from one hotel. ROME, Feb. 26. The Vatican complains that 'M, Briand’s latest concessions are illusory, and protests against the exclusion of foreign cures, though the Bill admits Protestants, Dutch, and Jews. ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 26.

Two hundred politicians were banished to Siberia during January. Nine famine-stricken provinces of Russia require £750,000 for charitable and medical relief. Only £70,000 is available. SYDNEY., Feb. 27, Lieut. Bentley, judge" of the baud contest at Christchurch Exhibition, states, speaking generally, the New Zealand bands are superior to the bands in this State. During the present outbreak twenty-six cases of plague, with seven deaths, have been recorded. Heavy rain has fallen in the north, and one inch in Sydney. BRISBANE, Feb. 27. The sugar growers’ conference estimated that- the sugar harvest would be a record one. The raw material is valued at two million pounds. Labor for the harvest is totally inadequ ue. It was resolved to take steps to secure a supply, but the conference opposed the Government’s idea of charging them £5 a head for immigrants brought out. Mr. Ividston states he will adhere to the demin-J, Tho Government feel it their pressing duty to fill North Queensland with white men. PERTH, Feb. 27. During the hearing of a Chinese gambling case a witness was afraid to give evidence because other Chinamen would kill him. He stated a society had been formed in Perth by one hundred Chinese, who picked ten of their number to kill any Chinamen giving evidence in gambling cases. The ten men received 15s a week, and in the event of any of any of them meeting with death in carrying out the society’s behests, £3OO would be paid to their widows and children. If they received any injury they would he paid 30s weekly and medical expenses. Received 9.59 p.m., Feb. 27. . LONDON, Feb. 27. By 2G4 to 109 leave was given to introduce Mr McKenna’s Passive Resisters’ Relief Bill, enabling the authority, after paying the teacher’s full salary, to recover one-fifteenth from the managers of a non-provided school as a fraction of the salary of the teacher giving denominational instruction. Mr Balfour said that under the Bill denominationalists would still pay rates for teaching unsatisfactory to them, and pay again for what they wanted. The measure would not bring peace much nearer. Mr Asquith replying to Mr Kenyons Lancy regarding the fall of British Local Government, railway, and other stocks since the beginning of 1906 said he did not think general conclusions could be drawn from the Stock Exchange prices for twelve months when trade was active and money in great demand. The natural tendency was to depress securities bearing a fixed rate of interest. A provincial tour is being planned for the Colonial Premiers attending the conference.

Received 10.7 p.m., Feb. 27. LONDON, Feb. 27. Orangia’s letters patent establishing a constitution are promised in April. BERLIN, Feb. 27. While scolding Socialists yesterday for lack of patriotism Prince Von Bulow hinted at a considerable policy of social reform. The policy is interpreted to be intended indirectly to pacify Socialists in the country, and then ask for more ships and guns. CAPETOWN, Feb. 27. Mr Steyu, in an open letter to the people, said ho was resolved not to seek election. Ho warns the colony against putting race against race. The new diamond fields had introduced capitalism, and people must fight unscrupulous capitalists who' may endeavor to secure tile administration. He was thankful for the existence of the mines, but fears the advent of trusts. Received 11.11 p.m., Feb. 27. LONDON, Feb. 27. The minority against McKenna’s Bill included 45 Irish Nationalists. The latter’s forcing a division against the Bill greatly irritated the nonconformists’ group. NEWPORT, Feb. 27. The State Supreme Court of Albany, by a majority of 4 to 3, decided that Perkins was not guilty of larceny in subscribing to Republican funds from the New York Life’s resources, holding that there was an absenco of criminal intent, PRETORIA, Fob. 27, The Het Volk Nationalists protested against nominations to the Upper House on the ground that, they were at variance with’ the majority of the electorate, and likely to lead to friction in working the constitution ...