GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 306, 23 December 1912, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

The House, of Commons has adjourned untih December 30.

The South African footballers defeated a Cardiff team by seven points to sis.

The Hon. Jas. Allen was to-day welcomed at Sydney by Mr Pearse and" heads of the New South Wales Defence Department. . Judge Higgins has varied the Adelaide Tramway Company's agreement slightly in favour of the men. The Brisbane and Adelaide awards operate from January 1 next. Welsh members credit Mr W. H. Gladstone with being the author of the Government's concessions to the Welsh Church. For the first time in the history of the Australian Jockey Club, Saturday's meeting was solely controlled by stipendiary stewards. A fire in the Blohm Voss shipbuilding yard at Hamburg, where many German warships have been built, destroyed the model rooms. A German aeroplanist named Zippa, becoming befogged, descended at Marnay, France. The aeroplane was seized and r Zippa placed under surveillance. Three thousand men have struck in the Germania shipbuilding yard, Hamburg, asainst the stringent regulations dealing with disorderly workmen. The French Athletict Sports Union has expelled two members of the Stade Bordelaisc for offering English Rugby footballers g>od appointments in the Vineyards. A German ship, surreptitiously proceeding to an anchorage in Cherbourg, was prohibited for reasons of national defence, and was ordered to return to the j roadsteads. Twenty-three Nationalists have been 1 sentenced to three months' imprisonment 1 in connection with the Castle Dawson riot, I and six Unionists to a month for the Car- ! rick Fergus riot. j A long-standing dispute between the I Newcastle Shipping Company and the i Wharf Labourers' Union has been | settled, aud the company has reverted to the engagement of casual hands.