CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2058, 1 May 1907, Page 2

CABLES.

I'IIEHB ASSOCIATION— COPYKIonT. LONDON, April 29. At billiards, Cook made a break of 0,780 unfinished, including 0800 b.y anchor cannons. Ho boat Ilurvers- ; ton by 2100 to 1312. , The llishop of London, the Dev. ( Lingott, and other Nonconformist , ministers, liavo begun a crusade against the exhibition of living statuary. , . Emma Names tho pinna donna, nas secured a divorce from her husband, Julian Story, tho artist, at New York. Woolwich arsenal, Armstrong’s, and Vickors-Maxim have received orders for sixty 12-inch guns for three British Dreadnoughts now building, and for tho three Brazilian Dreadnoughts which arc building in England. Bertram V. Williams, a seaman on tho ship Port Jackson, which recently arrived from Sydney, was sentenced to a month’s imprisonment for assaulting the captain. It was stated part of French residents in the New land clergyman. Tho first instalment voted for widening the Kiel canal is £750,000, and not £7,500,000 as stated yesterday. NEW YORK, April 29. A tornado destroyed the village of Heinzug, Texas. Eight persons perished. Several fatalities occurred in neighbouring villages. Hailstone drifts 2 feet in height impeded railway traffic. A railway pier in course of construction at Baltimore suddenly collapsed, killing eight and injuring eighteen people. ROME, April 29. Mount Str'omboli is in violent eruption. Earthquake shocks shattered windows and broke the cable between Hipari and Stromboli. OTTAWA, April 29. There is a great influx of Japanese into British Columbia. Many are employed in railway construction. ST. PETERSBURG, April 29. There is an alarming spread of revolutionary propoganda in the Russian army. Many officers have been compelled to resigu, while anxiety is felt at headquarters regarding the garrison at Kronstadt. Numerous arrests of soldiers have been made at ; St. Petersburg and Warsaw. 1 MELBOURNE, April 30.

In connection with the statements I made that contraband trade on. the I part of Frenc liresidents in the New Hebrides place British traders at a I disadvantage, Sir John Forrest says I he hoped matters would be on a bet- I ter footing when the Convention was 1 in operation. The Federal Govern- 1 ment vote of £-500 for the assistance I of British settlers was being used as I a bonus on maize. Wherever the I price obtained did not reach 6, a I bonus was given to make up the dif- I forence. So far little of the money 1 had been used. SHOOTING TRAGEDY. SYDNEY, April 30. A tragedy occurred on Circular Quay to-day. A woman named Riley visited a store where her husband was .employed, and shot her husband in the breast, then herself in the head. The man is in a serious state, and the woman’s condition is precarious. Jealousy was the cause. Received April 30, 11.37 p.m. Mrs Riley has died as the result of her wound. UNREST IN INDIA. LONDON, April 29. The Tribune states that a force of Ghurklia military police at Dacca have boon sent to Semalpur, near Mymensingh, owing to street fighting. Telegrams from Simla minimise „tho. Aiohore,..tmnWe'= . 1 BRITISH TARIFF REFORM. LONDON, April 29. Thirty-three out of 48 members of the London Chamber of Commerce, who are also members of Parliament, have written to the secretary dissentting from the tariff reform resolution recently passed, and expressing unwavering adherence to freetrade. THE DOUBLE WRECK. ADELAIDE, April 30. At the Norma inquest it was stated that the helmsman of the Ardencraig had decamped. The captain of that vessel stated that the lights ho saw before the sjuall obliterated them belonged to tho pilot boat. As the squall cleared lie saw them again. He ordered the helm up. The helmsman stated: “Wo put it down.” Witness then gave him a hand to get it up, but it was too late. The owners of the Jessie Darling have issued a writ for £SOOO damages against the Ardencraig. SHIPMASTERS FINED. Received 11.37 p.m., April 30. MELBOURNE, April 30. Since July last year forty shipmasters have been fined £IOO each on charges of having allowed prohibited immigrants to land. BRAVE DIVER HONORED. Received 11.37 p.m., April 30. SYDNEY, April 30. Diver Hughes was welcomed to Sydney by tho Lord Mayor and the Premier.

WARSHIPS LAUNCHED

VICTORIAN LOANS

Received 11.24 p.m., April 30. LONDON, April 30. 'Tlio destroyer Gliurka (33 knots) and one' of five ocean-going vessels ordered by the Admiralty with a radius of action of 2,000 miles at cruising speed have been launched.

Received 11.24 p.m., April 30. LONDON, April 30. Mr. Bent discussed the conversion of a loan with the directors of the London and Westminister Bank. He intimated that the Government intended to open an office for the inscription and management of Victorian stock and payment of interest on the South Australian lines, afford ing greater facilities. The bankwill continue to transact the Government's other banking business,