GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2273, 19 August 1908, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

United Press Association. Copyright LONDON, August 17. Air. F. C. Cartwright, Minister Resident at Munich, has succeeded at Vienna Sir W • E. Goschen, recently appointed British Ambassadoi at Berlin. v \ Tin: net revenues ol the English railways increased by over a million pounds for the last half-year. The Now Zealand Shipping Company’s Otaki has been launched on Commenting on the difficulty of dealing with race problems the ‘limes’ ’urges patience, sympathy, and forbearance between. Britain ana the autonomous colonies. It believes Australia will not be backward an following Canada’s splendid example which ought to reconcile Imperial and local interests.

JOHANNESBURG, August 1/. A meeting of SOW Asiatics at Johannesburg burnt 100 certificates eranted to Indians and Chinese. Jandhi declared that he preferred a lifetimo in gaol to seeing British Indians treated as serfs. MOROCCO, August 17. Mul-.ii Halid’s forces wore badly defeated near Maurakesb. Three (hundred were killed and 000 woundG(I. DAMASCUS, August 17. The Hedjaz railway from Damascus, has reached Medina. CONSTANTINOPLE, Aug. 17. Redjed l Pasha, Turk sh Minister for War. died suddenly at his desk, llis death is greatly regretted since he was implicitly trusted. Osman Nigai replaces him. BERLIN, August 17. Wilhelm Yoight, who in December of 1906 was sentenced to four years’ imprisonment at Berlin for ’stealing municipal funds at Ivopenick, which he obtained by 'posing as a captain of the Footguards, has beon releasedNEAV YORK, August IJ. Captain Hains. of the United States Artillery, with his brother Thornton, the sons of a general who distinguished himself during the CubanSpanisli wars, waited on tho landing stage of the yacht clubs at Long Island, amid a crowd of fashionable pleasure-seekers, until "William Annis, a New York publisher, landed. Then the captain shot Annis six times, mortally, while his brother, with a revolver, kept the crowd back. He declares that Annis ruined his young wife. Foreseeing a collision, Mrs Annis vainly tried to prevent her husband landing. SYDNEY, August 18.

The death is announced of Mr. Nicholas Fitzgerald, -Legislative Councillor.