GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 304, 20 December 1912, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

A Dickens Fellowship has been forme in Sydney. Jewels worth -3.000 were stolen froc a shop in Malta yesterday. The underwriters are taking 85 pc cent of the New South Wales loan. The Kaiser attended the funeral c Prince Luitpold. Regent of BavariaGarros, the French airman, flying froi Tunis across the Mediterranean to Romi has reached Sicily. The Port of London Authority has a< cepted a tender for the construction of deep-water jetty at Tilbury. The house of a police informer name Ratiman was wrecked at Midnapori India, yesterday. The occupants escapet The North-eastern Railway Compan has granted bonuses of £100 to seven loyalist firemen who acted as drivers dm ing the strike. The newspaper "Australasian" est mates the Victorian wheat yield ." 23,056.000 bushels, an average of 10 bushels to the acre. Mr Sloman. the new headmaster of th Sydney Grammar School, was marrie -yesterday to Mary, daughter of D Trinder. of Wadebridge, Cornwall. The Stockholm athletic clubs have a_k_ for a Parliamentary grant of £5-500 t enable teams to compete at the nej j Olympic Games, to be held at Berlin. i The Prime Minister (Mr. Asquith) ai I nounced in the House of Commons yeste: day that the committee discussion on t_ Franchise Reform Bill will be commence on January 20. Rahman, discoverer of the Calcutt I bomb factory, has been rewarded by I grant of land a.d five thousand rupee 1 He will be accorded the protection of for : picked guards. ! A tire which occurred in an apron mam factory at Nottingham caused damage c I timated at £70.000. Employees to t_ I number of several hundreds have bet 1 thrown ont of work. Prince Ching has arranged for the r I patriation of the Chinese troops i 1 Lhassa. Tibet's future is engaging tl [ attention of the Indian. Chinese, ai | British Governments. A motor car was precipitated down ravine at Boom I 10 miles from Antwerp yesterday. Baron Zuylen Vannyeveit w: "killed and three other occupants of U car were severely injured.