YESTERDAY’S CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2142, 26 July 1907, Page 4

YESTERDAY’S CABLES.

United' Press Association—Copyright LONDON, July 2-1.

The Judge grunted tlio SolieitorGwievul’s application for a change of venue in the trial of 07 drivers of cattle, on <,lu> • ground that a fair trial at Galway was impossible. An ,1 ticial f-:u,tiiry is p.'weeding as t.i the i ..■ •of the .Milo find

Hoard of Guardians in granting privih,..s on iraeif. Many thousand.' of pounds are involved.

Mr. T. J. it. .Buchanan, Financial Sceivtarv to fie Army Council, reply imr in a tpm.slion 1 rom Mr. Courthop . in the House iif Commons, promised to impure \. ho tiler the colonial Governments grunted a separate allowance to nou-comm fissioned officers and men composing the ropro-

• he. 1 '":: • . u '. idling England, but staced the National Riilc Association would hear tlio ontiro cos; of the visit of the British team to the colonies.

Mr. John Redmond accusod Mr. Alt,ore, member for North Armagh, of writing a let Lor to Bailey, one oi the Irish Estate Commissioners, threatening him with divers pains and penalties when the Unionists regained power. Amid an uproarious scene the letter was read. Mr. Moore therein said Bailey, though apointed hv the L'liionists to seo fair play between the two Commissioner's, had sold the party on every occasion. Moore threatened to move for an enquiry when the Unionists regained other. Air Moore admitted the letter was imprudent, hut said it was written in order to repel an unfair attack on Commissioner 'Wrench. Yorkshire defeated Warwickshire, Haigh taking six wickets for 27, and seven for Id. The crowd becoming incensed at Lords, owing to thero being no play in the match Middlesex. versus Lancashire, due to the wetness of the ground, after hooting in front of the pavilion and. demanding their money hack, invaded the wicket and damaged it so seriously t-lur. MacLaren, the Lancashire skippet, refused to continue. The match ivis abandoned.

The Times’ Johannesburg correspondent states that the main object of the Government Liquor Bill is to attract a larger number of Kaffirs to th". Band, but the support of the brewers and n certain number of mining men would not suffico to carry the Bill in face of tlio growing storm of opposition. PARIS, July 24. Prince Borghcse, leader in the Pokiii to Paris motor car race, lias reached Kazan.

ST. PETERSBURG, July 24. Incendiaries burnt the villages of Olouke, Kolodez, and Sukliayelan, in tile province of Voronesliveral. Thousands of peasants lost tlioir entire property.

VICTORIA (8.C.), July 24. A fire destroyed 150 buildings i: tlio city, including two churches.

SYDNEY, July 25. Tho Lord Mayor has made an important “offer to the Government, which may lead to changes in tho municipal administration. The basis of tho offer is that the municipality should have the right of collecting the citv land tax, and in return the Council would relievo the Government of the Rocks area, which was resumed during the plague outbreak, and other services, involving an outlay of'£so,ooo annually. Tlio Council would widen certain streets a.id generally beautify the city. Obituary: Mr. D. Mitchell, donor or the famous Mitchell library, which is the most complete collection of Australian and Oceanic literature in existence, and is priceless. The s.s. Malieno had a tempestuous voyage from Wellington. Eorty-five sheep died. A serious epidemic of whoopingcough, accompanied by broncho-pneu-monia, has been experienced, and Ins caused more deaths for any ono ycav since 1901. It is now abating. MELBOURNE, July 25.

An ancient ’cello has been found at Mount Moorah. When being taken to pieces for repairs, it was found to contain the label “Nicolo Amati, 162 d,” and a record that it was repaired at Versailles hv Louis Dandeh in 1781 for Louis' XVI. Obituary: The Rev. Watsford, the “Grand Old Man” of Australian Methodism, ret at 97.

There has bee., a remarkable de crease of the prison ' population oi Victoria in 15 years. The proportioi: of prisoners to population has decreased from one in 613 to one ir 1229