Latest Cables.

Northland Age, Volume 3, Issue 22, 8 January 1907, Page 4

Latest Cables.

Gang of Professional Gamblers. Driven out of France. Over £1,000,000 a Year Their Gains. PARIS, January 7. Forty-seven professional gamblers, mostly Belgians and including Marguet (formerly a waiter at Ostend), and joint owners of several clubs in Parts, have been expelled from the country by the police. It is estimated that their gains amounted to over per annum. Clubs were started under association law without police supervision, and many society women were victims of their frauds.

Trouble in Morocco.

Battle with ex-Governor. Who is Forced to Flee. LONDON, January 7. The Sultan’s troops, which have been sent in pursuit of Raisuli, exgovernor of Tangiers (Morocco) Jhave come up with him at a place where he had constructed fortifications. A battle took place and Raisuli and his men were dislodged by the Sultan’s artillery and they have fled to the mountains. Death of a Distinguished Scholar. LONDON, January 7. ■ Dr. Burdon, the distinguished Chinese scholar, is dead. The Ameer of Afghanistan. Accorded a Brilliant Reception at Peshawar. LONDON, January 7. The Ameer ot Afghanistan has arrived at Peshawar and was given a most brilliant reception with which he was greatly pleased. At a banquet held tliere he delivered a most cordial speech 111 Persian and English.

Mail Steamer Wrecked. LONDON, January 6. The Pacific Mail Company’s steamer City of Panama has been wrecked near Pescadero, on the west coast of California, 38 miles south of San Francisco. Seventy passengers and thirty of the crew are missing. Blown to Fragments. NEW YORK, January 6. A man entered the National Bank at Philadelphia yesterday and demanded the loan of £IOOO. Upon being refused the loan he exploded a canister of guncotton. In the explosion the cashier and himself were blown to fragments and many others wounded, some fatally. The War Office and our Soldiers. Means of Identification. LONDON, January 6. The War Office is issuing aluminium identification discs for soldiers on active service in place of description cards as at present used.. New Zealand Singer in England. LONDON, January 6. Walter Kirby, the New Zealand tenor, sang at a gathering at the I >uke of Devonshire’s seat at Chatsworth yesterday. The King and Queen were present. Mr. Kirby was in good voice and sang with great success.