YESTERDAY’S CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2125, 26 February 1908, Page 1

YESTERDAY’S CABLES.

Princess Christian is suffering from influenza, but is progresing. Canon Breene, rector of Clapham, London, after leaving legacies to two nephews, left the balance of his Australian property to the Archbishop of Alelbourne and the Bishop of AVangaratta equally, upon trust for the purposes of their dioceses. The London Times states that Canada- has agreed jointly with Newfoundland to submit the Atlantic fisheries dispute to the Hague. Sir Charles Mathews at Bow Street Court, read “Aliss” Robinson’s voluntary confession, which gravely reflected on persons not before the Court, detailing how she was tempted to give evidence by a promise of ' £4OOO if she would do as she was told.

The London Daily Alail states that Sir Edward Grey is making friendly representations to Japan regarding tho Fahumen railway. Tho London Daily Alail states that tho Government is purchasing the Hastings harbor preliminary to forming a naval station. Au anonymous Austrian, claiming to have been recently a British secret service agent, has published a book in Berlin purporting'to include despatches and telegrams to Lord Melbourne supplying detailed revelations of the . Pan-German anti-British movement in South Africa. It alleges that Germany is trying to create discontent between the natives and Boers.

The United States House of Representatives Naval Committee reduced the battleship programme to two, possibly one. They recommend the construction of eight submarines of the Holland typo instead of four. All Italian Anarchist, while kneeling at the altar at Denver, receiving the sacrament shot and killed the priest. The anarchist was captured later and nearly lynched. Chard, (the Melbourne baby-farmer) has been sentenced to four years imprisonment for attempting to cause poison to be administered to a baby. Wishing to show the solidarity of Austria and to prove that the Nairliizar railway does not interfere with reforms, Germany induced the Sultan to agree to the renewal of the mandates to the officials in Macedonia, but owing to the Ambassador’s divergencies regarding the details of reform, the Sultan rejects these, hoping thus to procrastinate. Newspapers show that the renewal of the mandates must prolong the unsatisfactory situation.

The column of French troops who recently repelled with the bayonet seven attacks by Moors near Fedalla had exhausted their ammunition, and the column was obliged to cut their way out, as the army of Mulah Afad had suddenly reinforced the enemy. Mr'Dcakin'has not yet received a reply to the invitation to the American fleet to visit Australia. Admiral Poore hoists the Admiralty tlag to-day. The Victorian State Government has decided that it is inadvisable in view of the nresent knowledge of the germs and tlieir effect that the Danvsz virus should be brought to Australi \. The City of Sydney Electric Lighting Committee discussed the experts report, which showed that the engines were in urgent need of overhauling, some of the engines being unsafe to work. The committee decided that immediate repairs be carried out.