GENERAL CABLE. NEWS.
The N.S.W. State metal quarries yielded a prodt of £1861 in (.he past six months. Mr. Labouchcre's English estate has been valued for probate at £522,000. Dr. Paz, proprietor of "La Prenza," a Buenos Aires daily, died at Monte Carlo leaving a fortune of four millions sterling. In the N.S.W. State Assembly a motion in favour of submitting the question of the establishment of a State lottery to a referendum vm again talked out. Dr. Macintosh Bell (formerly head of the New Zealand Geological Survey) read a paper before the Royal Geographical Society on New Zealand volcanoes. The Legislative Council is considering the Industrial Arbitration Bill. It deleted several more vital clauses from tho measure. Four hundred navvies employed on the North Coast railway, N.S.W., struck, and were discharged. They objected to a ganger.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 63, 13 March 1912, Page 5
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