GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2170, 28 August 1907, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

United Press Association —Copyright Received August 27, 10.18 p.m. LONDON, August 27. The Bankers’ Magazine states that the stocks on the London Stock Exchange depreciated to the extent oi £136,000,000 during August, and depreciated £345,000,000 during 190/ , including £111,000,000 American Railroads, £48,000,000 British funds, and £36,000,000 English railways: The losses on th© South African market averaged 25 per cent. . A Blue Book has been issued dealing with the tentative proposals concerning Advisory and Legislative Councils for India, outlined by Mr. Morley. The Times eulogises the soundness of the principles underlying the recommendations. Received August 27, 11.17 p.m. LONDON. August 27. In the House of Commons Mr. Churchill, replying to Mr. Lyttelton regarding the proposed reforms an the Colonial said tho Secretaryship of the Imperial Conference would be associated with the Dominion Department of the Colonial Office. It would be an extra feature of that Department, and entrusted with the duty of preserving the link between the Conference ahd the Office. Mr. Churchill, replying to Mr. Mackarnes, said the Transvaal’s policy was. that Chinese 6'hould be repatriated in a steady stream at the employers’ expense on completion ol .their indentures. He was unable to encourage expectations that the Imperial Government would accelerate the process. It was open to the Transvaal Government to accelerate it by any means it thought fit. Received August 28, 0.16 a.m. LONDON. August 27. The House of Lords read a third time the Deceased Wife’s Sister Bill by 98 to 54. The Archbishop of Canterbury. while stating that the clergy would do their best to ensure tilt smooth working of the Act, remarked that it was the first time in Church of England history that the law of the State was being brought into direcl contradiction to tho law of the Church.

Received August 28, 0.16 a.m. . LONDON, August 27. In tho House of Lords the Laud Values (Scotland) Bill was negatived by 118 to 31. TOKIO, August 27. Tlireo-fourths of the town of Hakodata- has been destroyed by fire. BERLIN, August 27. The Kaiser in the course of a speech .at Hanover thanked Heaven and the swords of his trusty troops that peace had been so long maintained.

Received August 28, 1.5 a.m. PRETORIA, August 27. General Botha, in a second speech at Standertqn declared that all should assist in building a great nation under the British flag. Judge Hertzog addressing the JacobsduBoers in Dutch was equally emphatir and loyal, adding that if the colony was to lie useful to the Motherland the inhabitants must behave as men of a British colony-. Received August 27, 9.30 p.m. SYDNEY, August 27. Baxter was sentenced to deat-li foi the murder of Mrs. McNamara. The defence was a plea of sudden temporary insanity. During a performance by Wirtli’s Circus at Yass the lions attacked the tamer Marco severely, mauling am! mangling his arm before his assistant: drove the animals off. A contract with a currency of two years has been arranged between tin Co-operative Butter Factories and tin P. and 0., Orient, White Star. Aberdeen, ami Lund steamship lines for tho carriage of butter to London. Tin shippers pay 2s 6d per box for mail boat space and 2s 3d for cargo steamers. The contract provides for a hi weekly service, definite weekly clearances, and first call upon refrigerato; space.

Received August 28. 0.53 a.m. MELBOURNE, August 27. Sir John Forrest resumed the tariff debate. He declared he would not support any excessive duties—not any higher _ than those proposed by the protectionist side of the Tariff Commission. The British preference proposals had not been well though: out. They were slipshod, paltry and make-belief. Preference. was a mere appeal to the gallery. Mr. Watson said the new tariff bore evidence of hasty preparation. The Government had not taken sufficient time to consider the reports of the two sections of the Tariff Commission. He war not at all enthusiastic over the pre ference proposals. His ideas oiy preference ‘should ho based on recipro city. He saw no reason for enthusiasm over one-sided preference.