SATURDAY’S CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2240, 18 November 1907, Page 4

SATURDAY’S CABLES.

United Press Association —Copyright ■Mr Pul-four addressed 3500 .people at the Hippodrome, Biruiinylh-am, m connection nvith .tlie conference. There was great enthusiasm, Air Austin Chamberlain, commenting on .•the moett-iug, said that miter such « speech it would not ibo Jir Balfour s fault if the party were not able to pull together. Tlie Times says that ‘all- Balfour has placed tariff reform and itlio colonial conference in the party’s programme. Ttlio Globe states that Air Balfour oast aside hairsplitting niceties, mud gave a defiuito acceptance by nino-tontlis of the Unionist, party. The Westminster (Jazcitte considers the speech unde-fi-nite. Thomas Kerr, caretaker at Giarnstown (England) golf links lias been tried for murdering Ellen Pinnock ten venrs ago. The body was recently found under his collar according to the -revelation of a trance medium named Staples. The jury disagreed and Kerr was discharged. Air Edmund, Parliamentary Financial Secretary of the Admiralty, ill a letter -read at -the London Chamber of Commerce dinner, said that reductions in tlio naval estimates cannot be maintained. Increases in the future -were inevitable, as they were now proceeding with .the building of the -third Dreadnought, which had been suspended during the progress of the Hague Conference. By a fire lin the Baltic shipbuilding yard two German gunboats were destroyed. The Alorocean tribes are deserting Mulni Halid, who is believed to foe" willing to surrender Al-arrnkesh to Abdul Aziz. A conference of charitable organisations at Ottawa -urges the Dominion and Ontario Governments to -prevent the influx of mentally and physically diseased laud other undesirables.

Sewing machines have been placed oil dQio free, list of the Australian tariff.

-The New South Wales -Budget debate was closed by the application of -the closure. The now Cun-ard liners cost -an additional £150,090 per annum. . As the result of ,a mistake in signalling, a p-assonger train -collided with a -goods train -at Laver-ton, Victoria. One passenger was severely -injured, and several others slightly. Mr Keir H-ardio called at. Queen’s House, Coylon. Sir Henry -AlcCullum, the Governor, was too busy to receive him. Mr Keir Hardie sails for Australia to-morrow.