GENERAL CABLES

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 220, 4 September 1911, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

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SOUTH AFRICAN MAIL CONTRACT.

Capetown, Sept. 2.

The conditions of the new mail contract demand a quicker service, adequate cold storage, fixed maximum rates on perishable goods, and precautions against the sale of vessels to foreign Powers.

(Rcceicvcd 4, 8.50 a.m.) London, Sept. 3.

It is understood that the Union Castle Company declined to tender for the South African mails owing to the clause in the new Post Office Act against rebates.

SOUTH AFRICAN SLANDER ACTION.

The case in which Mr. Fraser, a dismissed school inspector, claims £lOOO damages from General Herizog, Minister of Justice, is concluded, and judgment is reserved until November. The action arose out of an election speech in 1910 in connection with General Hertzog’s Education Act. The hearing? of the action took place at Bloemfontein, where it aroused considerable interest. AMERICAN EXPRESS UP. New York, Sept. 2. Three robbers, one a negro, held up the Southern Pacific southward bound express forty miles from Redding, California. They blew open the safes, rifled them and escaped, accompanied by two other robbers, who had ridden on the roof of the car. TRAMCAR DERAILED. A tramear was derailed and overturned on a sharp, curve, at ham. One person' was killed, fi J were seriously injured and twenM five slightly injured. ■ TWO MILE MOTOR RECORDM New York, Sept. Burman, driving a Benz car, tablished a world’s record for miles on Brighton beach in the mobile races, covering the in 97 1-19 secs. B