GENERAL CABLES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue LIII, 23 May 1908, Page 8

GENERAL CABLES.

BAGHDAD RAILWAY^EXTENSION. [PBKSS ASSOpiATION.I ' (Received May. S3, 8.80 a;m.) CONSTANTINOPLE, May 22. Owing ,toj GermAny;B pressure the Porte hasßanctioned the 500-mile extension of the Baghdad railway, including,, the Vlaur^y section >to MardnU t/ LABOB, iGBIMES. •" ' ' '- ■"N^W^QRK, -May 22. 'The American union of Labor, as a protest against'the employment of nonunionists, blej* up 'and ''partly demolished the. new isteiel bridge on the New-ha.Y^P'-H^rtfoTd railroad at Bi^onic. They were' frustr^^d,an Attempting ;tq blow up another on it tfl^ Q jPron3t: river, >'.the fugrtivjs dropjping, ninety, pounds of dynamite' into' the river. -' ; „ : . . . MISCELLANEOUS. (Received May 23, 8.50 a.m.) LONDON, May 22. The Telegraph is doubtful if the Government will proceed with the Education Bill and the Miners' Eight Hours Bill this session,' owing to the necessity of concentrating effort on the Pensions, and Licensing measures. The Lusitania, from New- York, beat her record on , the long route by 3} hours. ■ ■ .'■ .. ,, , ■.. . ■ . ■