YESTERDAY’S CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2048, 27 November 1907, Page 2

YESTERDAY’S CABLES.

United Press Association —Copyright There was a terrific hailstorm at Gatton (Queensland). 'Hail the size of teacups penetrated iron roofs as if they were tissue paper. Manj buildings were unroofed) and some blown clown. The captain and eight survivors of the ship Alexandra,bound from Australia to Panama, bare been landed ait Guayaquil, a port of .Ecuador. They were rescued in a pitiable plight from Indefatigable Island, in the Galapagos Group, where they subsisted on tortoises for five months. The mate and mine others were previously rescued at Albemarle, another island in the vicinity. The sequel to the Moltke affair in Berlin is that a Court of Honor tries Counts AVilliam Hohenan and by liar. Thomas Kerr, of Grahanistown, South Africa, has been re-arrested in connection with the murder of the gir.l Pinnock. The Nobeil prize for chemistry has been awarded to Sir AVilliam Crookes, and for literature to Air. Rudyard Kipling. 'Tile Bennisirassen tribe attacked the French force at Hacliikcliifar, Morocco, killing a Spahi. The | French shelled the village, killing 2a and wounding many. The King and Queen of Spain paid a visit to the Empress Eugenie. [The Empress Eugenie has been residing at Famborough Hill, Farnborough, Hants.] An explosion set fire to a tenement house in New York. Thirteen Italians perished, and many were injured. Ayling lias been sentenced to 1 years for forgery in London. Major-General Sir Henry Colville has succumbed to injuries received through the collision of his motor cycle with the motor ear of General Sir Henry Seymour Rawiinson, at Bi.dey. Sir AA'illiam Ljuie sought in the Federal House to have the duty oil galvanised iron fixed at £3 10s per ton general duty, but the House reduced it to £3 with preference of 20i. Plain galvanised iron was fixed at 20s general duty, with 10s preference. Cream separators were placed on the free list. The Adelaide Register estimates, the harvest at 17,112.000 bushels, an average of O', bushels. Dutton Aunger left Adelaide in a 21-horse-pbwer Talbot ear to drive to Port Darwin