GENERAL NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2223, 29 October 1907, Page 1

GENERAL NEWS.

The Archbishop of Canterbury, in a, letter to the clergy of the laity of his diocese, says he believes the clergy will act rightly and wisely in saying that deceased wife’s sister’s marriages when they occur under statute making them permissible as civil contracts ought to occur elsewhere than in the church, but his advice, which was advice only, was not to give formal direction or injunction. Ho would not regard as disloyal or disrespectful any incumbent who, carefully weighing the whole circumstances, comes to a different conclusion. Lord Minto, the Governor-General, reports that the agricultural situation in India, is worse. Mr. A. do R. Labistour, AttorneyGeneral for Natal, has disappeared, and is supposed to have been eaten by crocodiles while hunting on the Kasaya river. Only the German Minister for War and a representative of the Ministry of the Foreign Office accompany the Kaiser on his visit to England. A conference of vignerons at Rutherford, Victoria, passed a resolution urging the Government to conclude a reciprocity treaty with New Zealand. There is now but littlo doubt in Melbourne that the Orient Company will secure the new mail contract. Mr. Oxenliam has given the Federal Postmaster-General an-undertak-ing not to commit a breach of the Postal Act, and the embargo placed on his correspondence has been removed. A marino enquiry into the wreck of the Alfheld, lost on the Tasmanian coast, attached no blame to the officers of the vessel. Eight members of the Antarctic staff sailed from London by the s.s. Runic. Lieutenant Shackleton follows ‘next week. A conference of leading Conservatives and Liberals, representing 1 0 anti-Socialist societies, was held at ■Caxton Hall, and formed a central consultative committee to combat Socialism. , . , ~ Lord Milner, speaking at Tunbridge Wells, in -emphasising the value of Australia’s preference to the Motherland, said he would rather see any dominion increase its duties and adhere to preference to Britain than lower its duties and cancel preference. .. , , Reuter’s Vienna correspondent states that the Austrian Emperor is virtually convalescent. . Lieutenant Films, belonging to the French torpedoer Carrabiuo, has been arrested at Toulon under sensational circumstances for offering to sell a signal code and cypher key.