YESTERDAY’S CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2091, 17 January 1908, Page 4

YESTERDAY’S CABLES.

Uuitod Tress Association —Copyright

A Bill Inis been introduced into the Tailed States House ol Repivsoiitauvcs Jinposmg a tio per cent tax on dowries, and settlements in connect ton with tlio marriages of American citizens and foreigners. it is alleged that one hundred and eighty million pounds lias lett tiie United States owing to American girls marrying loroigu noblemen who are spurious. The secret police arrested twenty persons at Odessa in eonneetion with a plot to dynamite the GovernorGeneral’s residence _ and the gendarmerie head quarters. Lajpatria, 'at a met ting at Calcutta, aniiouucctl his .intention to pnhlisli a reply to Mr. Morley’s charges. He urged that patriots should unite against the common enemy and tight an unyielding battle against the condition of India and the prospect of political slavery. . ... Snrendranath Bnnorjee, presiding, described Lajpathriu’s deportion as an insult to the whdlo country . Under the pretext that he was connected with a band of (Iw'iiinii noblemen visiting Abyssinia to shoot lions A mold Hold, representing German manufacturers and banks, asked King Menoli'k for a concession to establish a bank at Addisabebda, also a spirit liionoply and the right to run a motor service between Gumtil •iml Adtlisabohda. Ho promised Menelik 10 per cent of tlio spirit moiiop‘\t. Seliollart, Belgian Premier, declares that the Government adheres to their determination to annex tlio Congo, though is is expedient to modify the conditions. . Prince Buolow’s statement in the Diet regarding universal suffrage lias .Tenth - offended the Radicals in the Reichstag, imperilling the reservation of the Block. The Vancouver City Council desires to disarm the Japanese residents.