CABLEGRAMS.

Thames Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 10134, 23 December 1911, Page 4

CABLEGRAMS.

. At the bye-election . for Ayrshire North, ocfciasioiiEd by Mr Anderson's a-ppoiiritmenfe asi Solicitoir'-<Jen-&ral for Scotland, the Insur'aiiee Bill will ba the bliicff issue. It. is . thought there -will be a turnover «.f many .Labour, votes. LONDON, December 21. A eonfea-encte of miners, resolved to hold a. ballot on the 10th of January, and if a two-thirds majority are in,favour of a strike, work, will bo' stopped' at Iho ond of February. ■ . . LONDON, ..Dooeniboi- 2]. la th,u divorcio case Sbrathan v. Strathiin audtlia Gufekwur. of Bnrodn was an indopenidoml prtacb a.rid consequently outside tJie jmisdiution of the Court. . LONDON 1, December 21. MincDbugiill, imprisoned for assaulting Mr Lloyd G'eorgc, has eaten nothing sincb bis conviction as ;i jiroilieat against his imposition of hard liibom'. ■ .HOME, December 21. NewMpopcis approve of tlie British cvcciipation wf . Solura and tho French-occupation of Bilmsi as faci!- . itating the repression of contraband nmns trading. ' B'ERLdN, December 21, Tlie Nnt.ion.al Zeitumg states the Itnlumn executed forty natives captured while ■ .wlvyiug arms in the Oasis a.t Tripoli* TiIUPOLT, December 22. Tlio Italians defea.M 3000' Turk.nncl Arabs beyond .AfzarO'. The In'.tei' occupying the Oasis maiutainecl n hot fire, but Wore dislodged with heavy loss. .Tlio Italian cfasunJties v.er& six killed and eighty wounded. Two thousand Arabs and Turks attnaked the defences at Denia, but' woro repulsed after a mm ere fight. LONDON, December 21. Tlio text- of the Papal decree., cabled o n tb.e 12th, ordains that any layman sv.ii^rj.oning an ecclesi.ap- ' tical-person in any layman's tribunal without permission of tho efciclesia.stical.'authority vill incur cKConimunicintion.. SYD'NEIT, Decombei- 22 Mr Justicia Isaacs concluded his delivery of the Coal Vend Judgment. He ronyicted all 39 defendants of . tho several offences charged againsi them, find ordered each to pay n fiuo of £500 with tlift exception of tho Associated Northern CblUcry bttaauso its indi\idual members wove nuioncstj tiluvso finjed. So jgranied an injunction restraining defLindants from ft vojrttition or continuance of tlie several offerees whereof they tlu;y »v&ra convicted and ordered defendants to- pay tho plaintiffs costs. Oh the .ipij'lica.tiiiu of the colliery proprietors hn granted a. stay o.f proceedings in connection with the I'cnaltias pending jjn appeal. In the course of his sinnniinsr up Mr Justice Isaacs referred to the combination as a gigantic conspirm.y It. was difficnit to say hew much (ho. public wero lming oivlorohavjred foi' cwil, but tlio ficuivs indloiitcd the'total improperly gathered to tl'il united efforts <ii tho colliery and shipping companies reached a very hifjh ficruro b.-sides -a deficient to tlio public rc-giird, and tho pricic was a restriction ■: n tho dlioico of cnal. The Vend and sL-ipping aimpanies looked t<\ no one's advantage- Iml their ov.v. Thi.? they followed up wherevey they could and fo tlie irrcn.tosti ■ possible* distance. Tho defendants orjiitherfcd So Ilwini selves' giants' strength r.nd used it ns :i Slant' not only against the publio but. on all who stood or endcuvourod to atnnd botweeu them and the pub-, licoi. s Tho fines imposed by tho statntorv limit total £19,500. PABIg, December 22. . I?cnc Efenne has been arrested at Antctuiel for defiiauding Fontaine, a wealthy mAinuf;\dum% of £40,000----■\ty spiritualistic practices.