YESTERDAY’S CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2095, 22 January 1908, Page 4

YESTERDAY’S CABLES.

George Flynn Foot has been arrested for stealing a diamond tiara at Aielton Hall, AVexborough,Yorkshire, valued at about LloOO. The tiaia was found buried in a manure heap. One- hundred and twenty cleigy in London of various d■■nominations, including Rev. 1L J. Campbell and Rev. Stewart Headlam, have signed a manifesto declaring that Christian Socialism is essentially the same as Socialism, and involves public ownership and management of means ot production and distribution and excllSlQS^l Tho British Board of Trade has appointed a committee to con sulci tne question of the compulsory carrying by all British steamers ot lite-lmo and line-firing apparatus. Tasmania scored 2/6. Lawson 41, Tabart 57, Harrison 54, Smith (not out) 3G were the chief scorers. England in their second innings have lost one wicket for s—Young 1, Blytko (not out) 4. Riotous scenes followed the declaration of the poll at Newton Abbot. Devonshire. A Liberal mob besieged the Constitutional Club for hours, and broke every window. They assaulted Mesdames Pankhurst and Alartel, rolling them in the mud, tor working against the Liberals. Air Churchill predicts the following measures for the coining session : 1908, old age pensions; 1909, taxation of laud values; 1910, curbing the powers of the House of Lords. Cohen’s buildings were insured for £14.500 in the Lancashire office. They are valued at £25,000. and tho stock at £IOO,OOO. It is believed the latter is largely covered by tho United Office, which has the risk distributed - A bush fire of great magnitude, with a frontage of 40 miles wide, is sweeping Edenhope district in Arictoria. It is supposed to have started from a swagman’s fire. Settlers at Bergholm rushed into the river to save their lives, leaving their property to burn. Sheep perished by the thousands. Twenty thousand Kurdish rebels are besieging Prince Firman. at Firuia, and the Governor of Tyerbujan, at Enj Bolak, Persian Cheuedistan. The Prince’s condition is extranelv critical. Kahima Klian has informed the Persian Parliament that he is willing himself to equip a relieving force. The Argentine Government propose to prevent the landing of Anarchists or known, criminals. St. Petersburg newspapers affirm that Japan is accumulating vast stores, prepartory to war. Engineers on the French cruiser Victor Hugo mutinied. Tho stokers and petty officers brought her to Casablanca. Two Russian terrorists havo been arrested in Paris as jn the robbery of tho Tiflis mail in July last, when £25,000 in notes was stolen. A collision of electric trams in Paris injured 37 people. Efforts made here to Qiave Evelyn Thaw’s testimony taken privately failed. The Court decided that all names of persons connected with .her history must be mentioned publicly. The decision created a sensation, as the names concerned the former trial. According to the New York World, the lire at Parker’s buildings was the work of an Armenian, Huactakis, a revolutionary, after a fruitless attempt to blackmail the Armenian merchants, who were tenants of the fourth floor.

The Field Museum, at Chicago, is despatching Dr Dorsey, curator, on a world mission to study anthropology. He devotes six months in the South Pacific, Australia, and New Zealand.

AVilhielin Alichaelis, a tailor at Leipsic, has been sentenced to six years’ penal servitude for selling military information to the French authorities.