GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 13, 16 January 1911, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

The strike of ironworkers at Liege has ended, the owners having granted many of the demands of the men.

The council of tae London Chamber of Commerce has resolved" that a naval loan is necessary to secure efficiency.

The Grand Council of the Science Congress voted £1000 to Dr. Mawson's Antarctic expedition. The session has now closed.

The Crown Prince of Germany visited Abbottabad, where he witnessed a display of hill warfare* and then entrained for Delhi.

The Sydney gas supply was renewed yesterday morning. Many shopkeepers reported that thieves were busy during Friday's darkness.

The United States Senate debated upon the bill providing for the election of senators on the people's direct vote. No decision was arrived at.

The Nigerian Government is arranging for the construction of a railway connecting the Nigerian tinfields with Baro Dano, on the Trunk line.

King Alfonso is now on his way homewards from Morocco: He visited the "Gorge of the Wolf," the scene of several sanguinary battles during tlie Riff campaign.

The ''Express" states that the decision of the Danish Government to neglect land defences and spend £2,000,000 in coastal defences is tho outcome of hints from Berlin.

During the last ten years the Federal Government Civil Service has increased by 41 per cent, and now numbers 15,793. The present Government is largely increasing salary expenditure.

A big fire in Winnipeg gutted nine large business houses, the loss being estimated at £60,000. No lives were lost. The firemen were hampered by tbe intense cold, the hydrants being frozen.

Charles Arthur, who fired at Constable Ha'ytread a few weeks ago, has been sentenced to servitude for life. He was sentenced in 1902 to 10 years for shooting at three constables at Spitalficlds.

The steamer Rosedale, which was lifted on to a sandspit at the entrance to Bellinger Bay (N.S.W.) by a huge wave, has been abandoned to the underwriters. Her position is considered hopeless.

The "Berlingske Tidende, - ' a Danish newspaper, has elicited from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs that no pressure whatever was brought to bear regarding the Defence Bill or the defences in pn£ gross.

The Poor Law Commission has JBsued a report of 500 pages on the foreign and colonial systems. An interesting resume is given of Australian methods and of the work of the New South Wales Labour Department.

The pseudo-Count D'Aulby Deglatini has been sentenced at Paris to one month's imprisonment for .selling spurious pictures to Mrs. Paine, widow of the American copper king, for £40,000. His wife was acquitted. .

Dr. Foster Eddy, claming to have been adopted as a sou of the late Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy, has filed a bill of equity in the Court at Concord, New Hampshire, claiming a share in the estate of the deceased Christian Science leader.

Six women jurors at Seattle, Washington, heard a case in which another woman was accused of tampering with a gas meter. A woman attorney defended the accused, and won the case by pointing out the insufficiency of the evidence.

At the inquiry into the Bellevue, U.S.A., mine disaster in December, the jury returned a verdict that the cause was attributable to a rockslide freeing poisonous gas. They recommended stricter adherence to mining law and better life-pro-tecting methods.

Dehaitilland, who is attached to the staff of the army balloon works, carried passengers on a steady flight in his aeroplane driven by a motor, which, like the 'plane, was invented by himself, from Farnborough to Lallan's Plain, in the presence of several Government officials.