YESTERDAY’S CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2166, 23 August 1907, Page 4

YESTERDAY’S CABLES.

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LONDON, August 21. In the test match the first innings >f South Africa realbed .178 runs. ' Xbets defeated YHdditkex by live wickets, and won the County cham-p-on hip. Up to the present Notts have won 11 matches out of 18, and lost mint'.

Tho Counters of Huchnn’s tong, contwining €BOBO worth of jewellery, has l,non stolen at Elision station.

Buvg'ars chloroformed tho sleeping inmates of the branch post office at S*oke-‘»i-Trc:it. anil stole oasli anil jewellery. The House of Herds, by 1H to <9, read a second time the Deceased Wife’s Sister Bill. Seventeen Bishops voted with the minority. The Archbishop of Canterbury insisted there was no popular demand for the Bill. The Bishop of Hereford and Lord Loreburn supported the measure. The House of Commons had an allnight sitting discussing tho Evicted Tenants Bill. The House disagreed with several amendments made by the House of Cords, notably that limiting the number of evicted tenants. The Government. agreed to restrict the operation of the Act to four years, instead of three, for tho acquisition of land and determination of tenancies. BAB IS, August 21.

At King Edward’s invitation M. Clemenceau, Premier of Franco, will lunch at Alarionhad to-day. This is interpreted as a mark of esteem, also the intention to discuss tho results of King Edward’s recent interviews with tho Emperors of Germany and Austria, especially regarding Morocco. BERLIN, August 21.

M. Jules Cambon, French Ambassador in London, lias boon tho guest of Prince Bnlow at Nordenuy for several days.

AIADR-ID, August x 2l

King Alfonso lias secured tho services of Inspector Arrow, a London detective, from Barcelona .Tile police, socialists, and local police are thwarting Arrow. Indignation meetings are being held. Arrow’s life is endangered.

NEW YORK, August 21

The Standard oil directors have published a pamphlet, declaring the Company’s absolute innocence in wrongdoing, particularly in connection with the case for which they .were fined. The directors assort the verdict was obtained upon a hair-splitting technicality, aided by the exclusion of evidence which would have removed all presumption of guilt. Mail bags with fifty thousand pounds’ worth of " valuables were stolen from a train on the Burling-ton-Quincy railroad. BUENOS AYRES, August 21

Several prominent importers of British cattle have been arrested hero for conspiring in inoculating cattle with Pasteur tuberculin serum during quarantine, thus defeating later official tests, and enabling cattle originally bought cheaply because infected to pass inspection. MOROCCO, August 21.

Eight hundred sharpshooters and 100 Algerian scouts reinforced General Drmla at Casablanca. Alulai Hafid, brother of the Sultan of Alorocoo, has been formally proclaimed, and is reigniing'as Sultan in the southern capital. Heretofore ho was favorably inclined to Europeans, but tbe tribes may force him to adopt an opposite policy.

AIELBOUBNE, August 21

The s.s. Indraghiri lias completed discharging the Alelbourne portion of her cargo, and was to have departed for New Zealand this morning. The fire was confined to No. 1 hold. A portion of the cargo was damaged by fire and water. The extent is unknown till the vessel is surveyed.

Sir W. Lyne stated in the Federal House that neither the New South Wales Government nor any other Government were going to take anything by force. He hoped if necessity arose members would support him in taking an extreme course. The Lord Al;ayor presided at a crowded meeting in the Town Hall, ■at which resolutions were adopted protesting against Federal members raising their allowances before consulting the electors. It was decided to forward the resolutions to the Lad Alayors and Mayors of the principal cities of the Commonwealth, with a view to concerted action. In tho Senate the Bill increasing members’ allowances to £6OO pr annum passed committee stages without amendment. -

In the Federal Parliament Air Reid opening the debate on the tariff, made a general attack on the Government proposals, and said people had been invited by him to leave the tariff as it was, but refused to endorse his policy, and by a two to one majority pledged members to increase the tariff. It was a monstrous absurdity to ask these members to go against their pledge, but at the same time he did not think people in their maddest moments expected instalments of protection such as were now proposed. Ho intimated that the tas-k he had set himself was to reduce the dues i.u the hope of securing a revenueproducing tariff.

SYDNEY, August 22.

Air Carruthers ordered the removal of tho wire netting under the advice of the Crown law autlioirties, founded on a Supreme Court judgment given four years ago. Customs officers seized 100 tins of opium secreted in chests of tea, brought by the steamer Empire for a Chinese consignee. The cruiser Challenger made a record steaming from Brisbane to Sydney, covering the distance in 23 hours 40 minutes, and averaging over 17 knots.

The production of the Broken Hiill Proprietary Aline for the' half-year ended Alay was valued at £829,445. Tho net profits were over £308,000. Obituary: Air. Laidley Alort, chairman of Mort’s Dock Comptny, aotat 63.

BRISBANE, August 22.

In the Assembly Air Lockver moved a vote of censure 011 the Government. The debate is unfinished. FREMANTLE, August 22.

The Municipal Council endorsed the request of tlic Amt.i-Federal League that Parliament be asked to take immediate steps to secure Westralia’s withdrawal from the Federation. The discussin disclosed a strong anti-fede-ral feeling. Councilor Healey considered ther was only one way out, and that by fighting. The State had only a quarter of a million people, but a man with a just cause was as good as three others. If they took up arms they could get out of the Federation in 24 hours. He did not want waste of time passing resolutions; they should act at once,