YESTERDAY'S CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2223, 29 October 1907, Page 3

YESTERDAY'S CABLES.

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A London message states in connection with tho Keystone burgundy case, cabled on tho 12th, tho prosecution was withdrawn on tho propriotors undertaking to print tho country of origin on the label. Queen Alexandra and Queen Aland, of Norway, and tho baby Prmco Olat havo arrived in London. Ouo hundred extra police, in ambush near Tuam, Ireland, arrested 4porsons for attempting to drive cattlo belonging to McJDonagh, a magistrate “and county councillor. Tho Seditious iNlootuigs Bill ot India has been modified. Certain mootings are exempted from preliminary notice. Tho measure is limited to throe years. , . Tho Government commission of enquiry into tlio Cnlcuttft riots is boycotted and not a siuglo witness appeared. . - , ~ Tho Banquo de Pans advances Abdul Aziz, of Morocco, £60,000. During ft tlenso fog in London an electric train from Baker street collided with another at West Hampstead Metropolitan station. three persons wore 'killed and seventeen .injured. all in the rear carriage, which telescoped. Four ten-ton picks were necessary in order to extricate tho aeroplane flew 771 metres ill Paris ill 53 seconds, beating 51. Santos Dumont’s record of 2*20 morSi"r W. Lvne proposes if the Standing Orders' allow when one-third ot the tariff is completed to send it up to the Senate. Ho hopes to get the whole tariff completed by Christmas. The Australian Postmaster-General has determined to separate the telegraphic and telephonic services, and place them under different management. This action is taken owing to the enormous increase of the telephonic service, which he considers demands a separate department. Sir W. Lvne states that alter the tariff is disposed of he proposes to create a Board of Trade, which would see that manufacturers, placed on tlicir goods a Commonwealth trade mark, which would indicate that they had paid a proper living wage in manufacture This Board would also see that the Railway Commissioners did not impose differential rates.