CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 1674, 19 December 1911, Page 4

CABLE NEWS.

B_ TiLKCTRIO TELEGKAI'H —COrYIUGIIT. (PEB PRESS ASSOCIATION.) SOME GENERAL ITEM'S. London, December IS. Stormy meetings of railwaymen at various centres summoned the executives to resign, owing to the conference agrecmnt and withholding from publication the result of 'the recent ballot concerning acceptance or rejection of the Commission's report. Every effort is being mado to negotiate with tho Abor tribesmen through friendly chiefs. Obituary.—Alberto Itandeggar. the well-known musician. The report on the French Naval Estimates recommends the replacement of the battleship Liberie forthwith, the building of more fast cruisers, destroyers, and submarines, and tho employment of larger guns. Le Temps learns that thousands of well-armed Arabs, who are splendid fighters, are assembling forty miles southward of Tripoli. Tho Grand Vizier of Turkey, in introducing a Bill to enable the .Sultan to dissolve tho Legislature in wartime, deniecl that he intended to dissolve, but the Bill was necessary 1o enable the Government to carry out measures of urgent importance. Foremost of these was the conclusion of peace. The latter remark caused a sensation. Mr AY. O'Brien, speaking at Cork, declared that the Manhood Suiiragc Uill was a serious obstacle to Home Rule. The extension of the franchise, meant a reference to the countrwhen the Liberals woidd bo smashed owing to the unpopularity of the lnsiiraue* Bill. King George has donated £120 and the Duchess of Fife £100 to the Friant fund, in connection with lives lost in tho Delhi wreck. The carters' and general contractors' labourers of Newcastle ifave struck for an advance of two shillings a week and the reduction of their hours to 57. . - The Merchant Service Guiia submitted to tho Shipping Federation a suggestion for improvement of the conditions of officers and men, including the payment of local rates when there was a prolonged stay in Australia or New Zealand. (Special to "the Sydney Sun.) ANTI-GERMAN FEELING. HOW FRANCE IS SHOWING IT. Paris, December 8. I The feeling that prevails against Germany is being plainly revealed in one way and another. A bill has been introduced in the I Chamber of Deputies, limiting the number of German waiters that may |be engaged in restaurants, and ail employment agencies that have been favouring German applicants have j been closed by the police.

The visit to Paris of the Russian Foreign Minister, M. Sazonoff, is regarded by the press as an affirmation of tho Itusso-French entente.

London, December 8. The Westminister Gazette publishes a leading article to-day in which it takes a hopeful view regarding future relations between Britain and Germany. DYNAMITE OUTRAGES. TRAFFIC IN EXPLOSIVES. Los Angeles, December 8. The Grand Jury has instituted an inquiry into tho traffic in dynamite and other explosives as revealed by recent disclosures in connection with tho destruction of the Times building and other places. Both John M/'Namara and James M'Namara, the two men now undergoing sentences for tho disaster at tho Times' office, have refused to give evidence. Among tho witnesses to bo called will be Ortie M'Manigal, 'who some time ago made a confession regarding a number of-dynamite outrages. Many of the Californian labour leaders aro engaging counsel to represent them at the inquiry, as they have reason to believe that indictments will lie filed against thorn.