GENERAL CABLES

Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 87, 11 October 1915, Page 8

GENERAL CABLES

•", DROUGHT IN N.S.W. ;. NORTH COAST DISTRICTS \ ' SUFFER. |By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyrights (Received October 11, 8.25 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. The "North Coast butter districts are suffering from the 'greatest drought in twenty-six years. There has been heavy stock mortality and the butter output has fallen to a third of last year's. : VETO ON TIPPING iSFFECT FELT IN AUSTRALIA. (Received October 11, 8.25 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. The Federated- Marine Stewards' and Pantrymen's 1 Association has lodged an appeal for a compulsory conference with the Steamship Owners' Association in the various States. The men claim that the results of New Zealand's veto on tipping are not confined to New Zealand services, and has led 'to a considerable shrinkage of the coastal stewards earnings, necessitating a readjjastment of wages. CHINA AND MONARCHY <50KVENTI0N OF POPULAR RE- . PRESENTATIVES. PEKIN, 10th October. A Presidential decree has sanctioned & law organising a convention of popular representatives to decide the monarchial .question. Each district in China will elect a representative, while the Manchu, Mongolian, Tibetan, and Mohammedan scholars and merchants will also be represented. LABOUR AND NATIONAL MATTERS TRADE UNION COMBINE. LONDON, 9th October. The Miners' Federation has adopted the provisional scheme of alliance. The final adoption is left to an early joint conference of the three unions. It is understood the alliance, if carried out, will not be operative before the war ends. [A cable message of 4th September stated : The Transport Workers' Federation, the National Union of Railwaymen, and the Miners' Federation are negotiating with a view to combined action in national matters, retaining separate control of their interests in their respective industries. It will be the biggest combine iri trade union history.] ' OCCUPATION OF VERA CRUZ BRITISH CLAIM AGAINST UNITED STATES. (TIMIS AND STDKET SON SERTICSS.) (Received October 11, 8 a.m.) LONDON, 9th October. Great Britain has presented claims to the United States for £45,000 in respect of British property lost by the American occupation of Vera Cruz, from 27th April, 1914, to 23rd October, 1914). MURDER OF M. JAURES POLITICAL PERSONAGES ARRESTED. (Received Octoßer 11, 10 a.m.) PARIS, 9th October. A number of political personages in the Chamber have been examined and arrested 'in connection with the assassination of M. Jaures. [M. Jean Leon Jaures, the famous French Socialist leader, was assassinated on 31st July, 1914, while dining in a cafe, by a young man named Raoul Villain, who shot him at close range with a revolver. The incident occurred at the height of the excitement at the outbreak of war, and was attributed by the assassin to -his desire to punish M. Jaures for his anti-military propaganda.]