GENERAL CABLES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 8 May 1925, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES.

ITEMS OF INTEREST. PARIS STRIKE OVER. BY CABbE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT PARIS, May 5. The transporters’ dispute regarding the refusal of the train, omnibus, and electric railways managements not to penalise May Day absentees has been settled, and the strikers resume tomorrow. RAISULI’S DEATH CONFIRMED. LONDON, May 5. The Tangier correspondent of The Times confirms the report of the death of Raisuli, the brigand chief, at Adjir, the Riff headquarters, on April 21. EXPLOSION WRECKS BUILDINGS. NEW YORK, May 6. Eight persons were killed in a. terrific explosion, which wrecked three buildings at Swissvale, a suburb of Pittsburg. Two bodies have been recovered, but fire hampered the search for the others. GOLD STANDARD BILL. LONDON, May 5. The House of Commons read' a. third time the Gold Standard Bill without division. MORE ABOUT TROTSKY. ’ MOSCOW, May 5. Trotsky has recovered his health and is returning to Moscow to resume work, but it is officially denied that a directory consisting of Kameneff, Zinozieff, Stalin and Trotsky is being established.

GERMAN SHIPPING ACTIVITY. LONDON, May G. A number of the most prominent. German shipping directors are at present holing a. conference in London. It is believed that it is’ possible that Dover will become a port of call for German liners plying between Hamburg and North and South America.