BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS

Greymouth Evening Star, 8 November 1912, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS

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EDGWARE ROAD ROBBERY. LONDON, November 7. James Gale, carman and George Hayes, porter, have confessed to the taxi-cab robbery in Edgware Road. They were remanded with Leslie Gale, a pawni broker’s assistant. DAMAGES FOR LIBEL. LONDON, November 7.—Harvey, a syndicalist belonging to the Durham Miners’ Association was ordered to pay John Wilson, M.P., £2OO for libel in a pamphlet suggesting that Wilson was willing to be bribed and was serving the capitalists. OBITUARY. LONDON, November 7.—The death occurred to-day of Mr., G. Harwood, Liberal member for Bolton. EMPIRE COMMISSION. LONDON, November 7.—Before the Empire Commission the representatives of the Irish Industrial Association complained that the Commonwealth treated Poplins as wool instead of -silk. It was important, lie said, that the Commonwealth should institute a special definition of Irish potstill whisky, which did not come under the definitions .of “all malt” or “blended.” The representatives of tho Incorporated Society of Meat Importers complained of the substitution of inferior foreign meat in English shops for Australia and New Zealand. They commended the Christchurch Meat Company’s metal labelling system. A large amount of the best Canterbury lamb was, they stated, sold in the West End as the best English.

HUGE DEFALCATIONS. LONDON, November 7.—A man named Clarke, cashier to Proctor and Co., has been sentenced to’three years’ imprisonment for misappropriatin'' £120,000. CURE FOR CONSUMPTION. BERLIN, November 6. —Dr. Freedman, of the Medical Society, announces that he has discovered a cure for all forms of tuberculosis. Several prominent physicians have testified to its success. TUNNEL FATALITY. QUEBEC, November 7.—Gas from a a passing train overcame fifteen workmen in a tunnel in the NorthernPacific ratal road. Train crews secured several and were then overcome themselves. Finally all were carried to the open air. One was dead. INFERIOR. IN QUALITY. JOHANNESBURG. Nov. 7—The big diamond discovered in the Premier mine is inferior in quality and its value is sneenlative.

FEMALE SUFFRAGT

WASHINGTON, November 6.- —Arizona, Kansas, Michigan and Oregon have adopted female suffrage. SENTENCED FOR EMBEZZLEMENT. LONDON, November 7. —Tom Watts, branch Secretary of the Dockers’ Union, ha.s been sentenced at the Old Bailey to six months’ imprisonment for embezzlement. INCREASED TRADE RETURNS. LONDON. November 7.—lmports during October increased by £1,321.762, exports bv £1.787.579. and rc-cxnorts bv £1.371.517. ’ BRITISH RAILWAYS. LONDON, November 7.—The Premier, ■speaki ug in the House, of Commons, said the Government was introducing a Railways Bill in 1915. Meanwhile they were introducing a one-clausa Bill this session to fulfil the promise made during the strike.