GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 396, 4 January 1909, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

[ot TBr,RoitArii—ritEss association—corTnidriT.) KING TO OPEN PARLIAMENT,' (Roc. January 3, 4.30 p.m.) London, January 2. King Edward will open Parliament in full state. FIRST PAYMENT OF OLD AGE' ' PENSIONS. Uomloni January '2. The first paymont of old age pensions worked smoothly, the rush of applicants being belon expectations. ' >''".,-.' PAPAROA SAILS FOR LONDON. January 1. Nows has been received that the Now Zealand Shipping Company's stoamer Paparoa, which put back to St. Vincent mtli fije aif.qiig tho caigo, lias been suivcjed and found soawoi thy, and has sailed-for'Loni don. SOUTH AFRICA SUPPLIES ITS'OWN MEAT. Capetown, January 1. A Chicago firm is closing its Capetown branch, as South Africa' is now supplying herself with jneat. . , COLLAPSE OF PROTRACTED STRIKE.' London, -January ,1. r Tho Hebden Bridge (Yorkshire) weavers' stnko has collapsed, after lasting forty-two weeks. The strike cost tho Weavers' -Amalgamated Association £23,000. ASSISTED IMMIGRANTS. - - ' London,, January 1,." During 1903 the Now .South Walca Government granted 3090 assisted passages .to emigrants from tho Old- Country.' ' .. ~. PUGILISTS AND PROHIBITION. '' ' Sydney, January 2. Aβ a Tesult of tho Burns-Johnson*prize-fight, the newspapers aTe flooded , ■jvitf co'r" rospondenco in favour of and against boxi ing displays. « .» •■•■- BROKEN HILL STRIKE EXTENDS; ' A(Ie]SWo, January 2. The men employed, in tho Proprietary mine's smelting uoiks at Port Pirie havo corao out in sympathy with tboir comrades at tho Barrier works. The works are carefully picketed- /J--,