YESTERDAY’S CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2115, 14 February 1908, Page 4

YESTERDAY’S CABLES.

Mr Reid, criticising Mr DenkiiTs defence proposals, .saul the idea of compulsory i-crvico a\‘as repugmui t. II appeared to bo largoly confined to young men between 18 ami 21 years, which was an outrage. A pauper line had been in trod need by providing that those'young fellows who by reason of having persons depending on them eould not alford to go into training for nothing, should be paid. As to the naval lielonoo proposal, it was a seheiue that would not do at nil. What was wanted was to put life into the present defence system, anil provide as head O'! the three a man who had a practical cxoerienee of war. A general strike id' timber yard hands" took place in Sydney to-day. There are two thousand men idle, and about thirteen timber vessels are unable to discharge. •The wheelers at. Dudley colliery have again ceased work. 'The miners refused to do the wheeling themselves. It is likelv that the contempt which the Court has keen subjected to by a station of the employees will cause the. President to reconsider Ins .position. Cardinal Moran is a passenger tor New /(inland hy the .Manuka.. 'The ouvehase money ot various train wav lines by the South Australian Government on . hehalt ol tie Municipal Trust amounts to ,- Two hundred chiefs at an uidahii at rkamlhla, Natal, thanked the Government for Dinizulu's removal, remarking that there was now .no Tear of assassination, and they were aide to sleep with the door onon< They hoped that Diuizulu would never he re-admitted since they were sure he would cause trouble. The Natal Government deny that Air Jolliooe was denied reasonable facilities in regard to the defence of 'Diniznln. Earl Arran, nresiding at- the meetino- of the Bovril Company, Ltd. in London, said they much regretted having to out down their Australian business ovying to the increased import duties. Mr Geo. Lawson Johnston, vice-chairman, sud that Australia for twenty years had been the company’s favorite source to apply for raw' material, and he thought it would have been the last, place to raise the duties 'against them, lie had rather hoped for preference. Lord Eleho, at the London County Council, remarked that the Commonwealth could have the Strand site lor their offices at tlm same proportionate nrice as Victoria obtained a site l'or'ollicbs. The committee had done everything to meet the Commonwealth, but as there had been no serious advance, on the offer made, lie concluded that tho Commonwealth was not serious in tile matter. He thought the committee should not close the door if it no longer felt that it should keep other people who were anxious to negotiate from doing so. Air G. Hardy's resolution in favor of an inquiry into the Stgip purchase of railways was talked out. though it elicited from Air Lloyd- • George ah offer to inquire as to how far evils could be remedied by any change of The relations between (lie railways and the State. The Hon. James Gully, eldest son of Viscount Selby, who is separated from his wife, ran away to Sweden with their ten-year-old child. A detective followed, and the child was recovered. The London Morning Post says that the Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia has assented to the Asiatics Immigration Bill. Humanitarians and Nationalists in London, heckled Air Alorley regarding tho Zakkakbels. lAfr Alorley said iho expedition had been sanctioned, <wing to eleven raids in India, and must go forward now. It is reported that Sunderland and Laing’s is likely to be reconstructed, but everyone will be paid in full. Signor Caruso, the famous singer, who was 'fined fourteen months ago for annoying a woman in the monkey house at- New York Zoological Gardens, has been vindicated. A woman on being fined for drunkenness and fighting in New York, «onfessed that it was she who compl.med to Constable Kane that Signor Caruso annoyed her in the gardens. She did not appear at the Police Court as a witness aiul Caruso was fined on the testimony of ConstableKane. Signor Caruso, in hearing that his old enemy had been fined, oxclaimed. ‘Now, my vindication is complete.” Herr Schoii, German Almister tor Foreign Affairs, sneaking to the Budget Committee of the Reichstag, acknowledged /AI. P-ichon’s straightforward declarations of France s Aloroccan noliev. Regarding the Baghdad railway, he said Germany had fostered the undertaking for purely economic reasons. He ridiculed tne fantastic reports as to the contemplated seizure of a harbor in the 1 ersian - Gulf. .. , , Two flying columns, with a ngnt reserve are considered sufficient to make a demonstration of force, which will be confined to Bazaar \ r alle,v, where the Zakkakbels •winter.