ANTI-GAMBLING BILL.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue LIII, 10 April 1908, Page 8

ANTI-GAMBLING BILL.

TRADE UNIONISM. , IPBSSS ASSOCIATION.] LONDON, April 9. Mr J. N. Barnes, M.P., has resigned the general secretaryship of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers. The resignation is due, he declares, to the North-East District of Engineers' Association getting itself above the whole body and wasting the. Society s strength. If the trade union officials were to be flouted without reason, the "effectiveness of trade unionism would be weakened and collective bargaining undermined. .

' SYDNEY, April 9. The Labor Council resolved that in the event of the Industrial Disputes Bill as amended passing Parliament to recommend the unions to ignore thr Bill and resort to strikes for a sett M ment of industrial disputes.

"LONDON, April 9. Owing to the failure tQ establish an International Sleeping Sickness Bureau the British Government j s establishing a national one ir, London. Britain and Germany are signing a treaty jointly to combat keeping sickness in Uganda and Geruian East Africa.

LONDON, April 9. Mr Taverner, Agent-General for Victoria, has arranged for a .demonstration of bread-making with Australian flour at the" Bakers and Confectioners' Exhibition next September. The demonstrations require three Australian bakers who have proved that it is not essential to mix other flour with Australian.

OTTAWA, April 9. Canada's intermediate tariff is applied to French. goods shipped direct from France or. through British ports, otherwise the maximum tarifE will' be imposed.

NEW YORK, April 9. A Bill, making it a felony to gamble on horse-racing in New Tork State, was defeated in the Senate, 25 voting for and 25 against it. INDIAN TELEGRAPH BLOCKAGE. CALCUTTA, April 9. Many telegrams in India are being forwarded by post. The delay, is causing serious losses to London firms. Business in jute, linseed and shellac is at a standstill. ANOTHER NEW GUN. "PARIS, April 9. Pouteaux, chemist, of Dijon, Eastern France, has invented an. electric gun which he claims can fife 1200 shots. a minute. MISCELLANEOUS. (Received April 10, 8.43 a.m.) LONDON, April 9. The County Council loan of 2$ millions at 3£ per cent', was subscribed over, tenfold. Mr Haldane is appealing to employers to give .employees facilities to join the territorial force. .- Lloyd's register* shows that the tonnage' of .ships now building in. the United States is "459,000 ' below the same period of 1907, the largest decrease since 1894. CAPETOWN, April 9. A railway from Bloemfontein to Kimberley is opened. . There were 26,504 Chinese on the Rand at the end of March. LISBON, April 9.Two soldiers were shot dead in' a street at Lisbon last night in revenge fo» the troops firing on the crowd. The assassin escaped. VIENNA, April. 9. At .the eleventh round of the international chess tournament at Vienna Schlechter is leading with 9 games, Marvezy B§, Duas 8.