YESTERDAY’S CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2090, 16 January 1908, Page 4

YESTERDAY’S CABLES.

Unitod Press Association —Copyrigbi The Bishop of .London, speaking at Bournemouth, stated that ho was unable altogether to ignore the agitation initiated by Mr. Jolm Kensit againt ritualistic practices. If inquiry showed that confessional boxes were placed in London chui'choc, they would be very soon cleared out. An angry 'correspondence is proceeding in the London "Times” regarding the unfairness of the differential legislation applied to Indians in the Transvaal as eompared with other colonies. It is held to he especially degrading that registration ineans'the impression of toil digits. Indians in the Transvaal appeal to Sir 11. Campbell ILinnerman, protesting against the indifference of the British Government, which is straining their loyalty. By order of Mr brunts 3o In nans and'ls Chinese, including tile i rincipal leaders against compulsory Registration, have boon arrested. ” The London “Daily Mail” atfetvls that Raisuli has sided w'.rh M'hiii Halid. and this will retard Sir 11. Maclean’s release. . llenrv Carman won the I,outsell \rclideacon £2OOO prize for an aeroplane covering 1100 -arils m 88 seconds, bv a circular course, thr ugli goals -and hack. Amid great cheering he repeated the perlorman.'e. Fa nil auks aeroplane sped 'nth perfect, stability, and alighted with the ease of a bird, descending at J a. a The Dublin Court allowed Mr J>. Sheehan. M.P., to interrogate Mr John Redmond and other Nai lonalists respecting his action against them lor libel and conspiracy in •oniiect: m with his expulsion lrom tho irisi. Parliamentary party. . 'Pho Paris newspaper ; cl ur repo., t> a theft from Cherbourg arsenal ol eleven years’ records of the handling of different, types of tor.-redoes. 1 1 is believed to bo impossible to icplaoo the records. . . .. The Goulds’ appeal against the sentence for the. murder of Madame J.evin lias been dismissed. An apparently inspired s’f-itemrnt ■it ■Washington declares that tho Depart men t, of Commerce is <ot aec convinced sufficiently ol Japans proposed measures to restrict coolie inunigraition to the Cm led States. It added: lho b.n>.c j.opartuient officials tool that i. as let ,‘asv to convey to Japan, even by suggestion, the desirability of ameiii- g her plans without wounding her ide. Hence thodelay in the preparations of Mr O'Brien, the now Ambassiuor, leaving for Japan. It is not uo-haps necessary to await the ainval o, la Larina, the new Ambassador, >n or dor to complete negotiations. \ fire broke out in Rhodes Opera House, at Boyerton in Peiins-Ivama, can^iii< T muoli loss or liio. The Hire was caused by the explosion of inflammable material itsed to work a- cinematograph apparatus. Eighty people were killed, and there were ono hundred injured. The noise of the exp osion caused a panic among the audience, winch comprised 700 people, chiefly women and Sunday school girls. The audience rushed the stage, overturning the lamps, which set faro to Part S of n tlie floor of the building collapsed, precipitating scores of people into the basement. 1 Within five minutes the theatro was converted into a roaring luiUa iil‘ the crush of people to get out the staircases became choked, ami there were piles of bodies five feet 1U Mkinv persons, mounting on these piles of humanity, jumped from tho windows, and thus escaped. The fire apparatus was found to be put of order. , T , ~ , Mr Taft, in a letter to President Roosevelt, forwarding a report from Mr Charles Magnon, provisional governor of Cuba, anticipated that the United States will he able to roJmquisli the temporary control ol Cuba in March of 1909. , It is reported at- Washington that the Panama Canal will cost- thiity million sterling above the estimates owing to the revision, and that even then the Dreadnoughts will bo unable to pass through. Mr Littleton, counsel for the defence in the Thaw trial, declared' that insanity existed in the families or Thaw’s father and mother, and that Thaw suffered from fits of insanity from earlv childhood. He was, ho stated, stark, staring mad at tho time of the tragedy. . A contract has been signed at i ckin vesting in the Chinese Government, for the construction and control of the Tientsin-Yangsze railway. European chief engineers advise as to the construction. European auditors with German and British bondholders, having interests m tho syndicate will be compensated by tho surrendering of profits under the original agreement of 1899. A five million 5 per cent loan has been arranged at a price to China of 93, three millions issuing in. 1908. Two thirds of the capital will bo raised in Germany and ono third will bo British, proportionately to tho respective lengths of the section. Indians and Chinese, who were engaged in picketing, with the object of dissuading others from registering under the new regulations at Pretoria, have beem ordered to quit the Transvaal before the 25th. Owing to tho block in the traffic in Newcastle harbor the departure of tho Manuka for Now Zealand his been delayed until noon to-morrow. The Manuka has been at Newcastle since ‘Friday awaiting coal. Although a supply is lyiug alongside tho wharf in a railway waggon the steamer was unable up to last night to secure a loading berth. The company propose to bring the Manuka back to Sydney to coal, but found no coal available. The New South Wales Cabinet has decided to grant substantial encouragement to trade with the East. The tonnage of vessels that entered Port- Jackson last year was 7,192,000, an increase of 703,900 tons. Tho vessels carried 100,280 passengers, an increase of 17,G90. A lode has been cut at 12,000 feet in the Broken Hill Proprietary mine, the greatest depth of ore-carry-ing lode struck along the line. Jn, support of tho wharf laborers’ strike the crane employees at Newcastle decided not to load coal on any vessel employing non-unionists. The effects of the continued dry weather are beginning to be seriously felt in many districts in New South Wales, and there is shortage of water and feed. The head in the interior was very severe, being 110 at Broken Hill .

Tile nominations for the Queensland elections resulted in live Ministerial. 5 Labor, and one Ividstonitc candidate being returned unopposed. The Victorian State Government has forwarded to London the balance of the money required to take up the two million loan falling due in April. No money will bo ‘required from investors in London.

Jennie, a “queen” aboriginal, has died in an asylum for the insane, aged 70. Obituary: Professor R. Ellery, formerly Government astronomer, aetatSI. ' Two deaths from plague have occurred at Accra. The.steamer 'Parna is a total wreck at Ban. There were no fatalities.

Two deaths from plague have occurred at Accra.