YESTERDAY’S CABLES.,

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2135, 10 March 1908, Page 4

YESTERDAY’S CABLES.,

Lord Grey hopes that representatives of overv portion of the Empire will at lend the Quebec Tercentenary. 11 o believes the children of tluv Empire will join the Cimadiau children i n assisting in the commemoration. A mass meeting, marked with great enthusiasm, was held at Burton-on-'Trent, England, to consider the Licensing Bill. Lord Burton declared that 'the Bill would entail absolute ruin to Burtou-ou-Treut and other towns in connection with the breweries. His own firm stood to lose two million sterling invested licensed houses upon mortgages. The creation of a sin king f uml would mean no dividends. King Edward has arrived at Beirut/.. i'u Franco unreservedly approves oi all the Balkan railway schemes. The Court of Honor at Potsdam .sentenced Count Hohenliau to bo removed from the list of officers and that ho lose his decorations. The Kaiser has confirmed the sentence. The Kaiser was present at the launching of Germany’s Dreadnought, which was christened Rassan. Extreme secrecy was observed. No foreign attache's or correspondents were present. Two cycling accidents are reported. A boy named Howe, riding to Richmond, was impaled on the shaft of a passing vehicle. A mm named Price collided with a cab at Ricliniond. Both cyclists were killed. Tom Burrows swuug-olubs Cl hours -11 minutes in Sydney, breaking his own record by a minute. A fishing boat capsized at Newcastle, N.S.W., a;ul two men, Taapo and Burkitt, were'drowned. Obituary: At Melbourne, Doctor Ilowilt, aged 71, leader of tho relief party sent in quest of the explorers, Burke and Willis, in 1861. Investigations at Lisbon prove that five or six conspirators fired into the Royal carriage. It is probablo that those killed were not the actual murderers of the King and Crown Prince. Several witnesses affirm tliat the murderers escaped unhurt. Tho Mongolia has sailed with 400 passengers from Marseilles) 1 The carnage was chiefly in the hold containing luggage.