GENERAL CABLES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, 11 April 1908, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

BRITISH ARMY AND NAVY. {.PRESS ASSOCIATION.] LONDON. April 10. -Lord Tweedmouth, speaking at a .dinner of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, again emphasised the necessity for maintaining our command of the sea. The ideal should be to make the army and navy work together and into one another’s hands. A NEW SERUM. LONDON, April 10. Dr Robb,. of Belfast, reports that a mew serhm for thei treatment of cere-bro-spinal meningitis has reduced the .death rate from 75 to 80 per cent. NATIVES ON THE RAND. (Received ApriT 11, 8.8 a*™-) CAPETOWN, April 10. There, are- twenty-five thousand more unemployed natives on the Rand than in 1007, due to commercial stagnation. The crisis in the diamond industry caused the De Beers, the Premier -and the . Jagersfohtein mines to release 20,000 men, and the Central African railways to release 17,500. : _ TELEGRAPH STRIKE IN INDIA. LONDON, April 10. The Daily Mail reports that the telegraphists have begun a strike throughout India/ The Calcutta office is near,Slß HENRY CAMPBELL-BANNER- . • -MAN. ’ (Received April 11, 8.30 aim.) LONDON, April 10. Sit Henry Campbell-Bannerman had .•a restless night and is somewhat weaker. DRUCE PERJURY CASE.

LONDON,. April 10. “Miss” Robinson (the New Zealand •witness) was sentenced to four years’ imprisonment.

AUSTRALIA’S CITIZEN SOLDIERY

LONDON, April 10

Addressing the Australasian Chamber of Commerce Mr Price, Premier of -South Australia, said he was entirely in accord with Mr Deakin’s scheme of ■ citizen soldiership. in view of the : awakening in the East somebody must .stand up and be ready, to fight if they were going to retain Australia as a Jewel in the crown of Empire. AUSTRALIAN NEWS. . '(Received April 11, 10.10 a.m.) SYDNEY, April 11. , A sculleryman named Richards, on 4fee' liner Somerset, was stabbed in the Tiack by one Bear, a steerage cook, and bled to death in ten minutes. A girl named Selmes, while carrying a pair of scissors, tripped and was •stabbed to death. A man named Despogen at Alex•andria fired six shots at his wife, but missed her. A policeman took the man in hand, hit Despogen twice, and disabled him. The authorities are enquiring into -the premature firing of a 9.2 gun at -the Heads. While a huge gun was automatically rising from the pit it ■suddenly fired. Fortunately the muzzle •yras clear of the pit- walls or the shell .-must have blown everybody in the pit -to fragments. A gunner was severely -cut by the flying sight.

THE NASH CASE

* MELBOURNE, April 11

The Chancellor of the Diocese admits that the Archbishop.’s cablegram -to. some extent constituted what Canon ■Nash’s supporters termed a “climbdown.”

CHINA’S BOYCOTT OF JAPAN

HONGKONG, April 10. Chinese money-changers in Hong ;• ikong are refusing Japanese bank-notes, *' even at a discount. . r

The Hongkong Chamber of Commerce is circularising the principal chambers in order to obtain diplomatic action to stop the Japan Cotton Spinners’ Association's . proposal to insert lottery tickets in hales of yarn, thus fostering Japanese trade to the diriment of Indian.

A LOAN COVERED THIRTY-FOLD

LONDON, April 10.

The County Council loan at 1£ per cent, premium is covered thirty-fold. .One firm supplied 5V millions ■, and several others the whole, loan.