GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 216, 11 September 1911, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

A deadlock has arisen in the negotiations for the South African mail contract. Mr. Dixon, owner orf the Sayonara, declares that as far as he is concerned there will bo no race for the Sayonara cup, Refusing to give bail, two members of the Waterford Corporation were imprisoned for a month for insulting the Mayor. Mr. J. Ilavclock Wilson, secretary of the Federated 'Seamen's Union, is to visit Australia for the purpose of appointing agencies of the Seamen's Union. A Melbourne Press Association cable anounces the death of Mr. W. H. Stephen,, only surviving son of the late Sidney Stephen, Chief Justice of New Zealand. The steamer Lusitania 'has done the return voyage from Liverpool to New York and back in lli day 3, thus beating the Mauretania's 12 days' record oi December last. The candidates for the Kilmarnock seat, Tendered vacant by the death of Dr. Rainy, aTO Sir John Reas (Unionist), William Glynn e Gladstone (Literal), and McKerrall (Labour). A punitive expedition has started in search of the murderers of James Thompson and George Shoesmtth, who were murdered by natives -while asleep on the stock route in the North Murchison distiict, Westralia. The Chicago theatres are dispensing with the musicians on the ground that the audiences object to the blaTO of trombones. The musicians say, on tho other band, that the action is an attempt to smash the trades unioas.