YESTERDAY’S CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2169, 27 August 1907, Page 4

YESTERDAY’S CABLES.

United Presa Association—Copyright LONDON, August 25. In the county cricket Nottingham finished the season . undefeated. JSallam captured 153 wickets with an average ot 11 runs per wicket and Walsh 145 with an averago of 13. Middlesex defeated Sussex. Tarrant, in the second innings took eight wickets for 41). The lhr.it I’sii I '. Two-year-old Plate was won hy Peter Galley, owned ;,y Lionet Robinson, a South Australian sportsman. H.i'l.s. Temeraire, 18,000 tons, one of the latent vessels of the Dreadnought typo has been launched at Dovonport. Captain Ottley Jias been appointed .ere. .lV to the Comraitteo on Imperial Defence. .' , _ The Peninsular and Oriental Company have ordered three steamers of th >‘ "Moldavia class and an express steamer, aggregating 40.000 tons, at .1 cost largely exceeding one million pounds. . The cruisers Psyche and Pioneer have l>t>on recommissioned for the Australian station, and leave Singapore for Australia on Monday. ANTWERP, August 25. The Shipowners’ Federation at Antwerp have voted a million francs to resist tlie dockers’ strike. ST. PETERSBURG, August 25. Thirty-eight thousand men and women were banished to Siberia front Warsaw in one. year for political olFcnces. . , __ NEW 1 ORK, August 20. It is ollieinlly announced that after a conference between President Roosevelt and the Navy Dopnrtmct, sixteen battleships start in December via Magellan straits for San Francisco. A flotilla of destroyers sail at the same time, hut will not accompany the fleet. The telegraphists’ striko is apparently fizzling out. Twelve thousand drivers employed in the wholesale meat trado at New York have struck. MELBOURNE, August 20. Four detectives had a desperate fight with four suspected burglars at Collingwood l . wh'iom they surprised unloading the proceeds of a recent robbery from a tobacconist’* shop. The detectives used revolvers, and the suspects a. revolver and empty bottles. Three suspects were captured. One, wounded with a revolver shot, escaped. The tobacco, valued at £240, was seized. There is some dissatisfaction in Air. Reid’s party, owing to his mild attitude towards the tariff. Obituary: At. Jales Joubert, Exhibition manager.