GENERAL CABLES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 24 June 1912, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES.

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LONDON, .June 21. Persons to the number of 14,254 were injured m London streets during 1911 Of 410 killed, the deaths of 288 were due to motor-vehicles.

Mr J. M. Robertson, Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade renlvJ^'A 0! Mr B YE- Peto' M-P- denied that the new Japanese tariff, as modified by the Anglo-Japanese treaty, would have any injurious effect on British trade as a whole. Though Britain's cotton and woollen exports had declined, the export of other goods had more than correspondingly increased. Captain Amundsen has been awarded the Royal Scottish Geographical Society s Livingstone gold medal. The Prince of Wales has returned for the occasion of his coming of a^e on Sunday.

Jour members of the Irish Women's J'ranehise League were fined 40s or a month s imprisonment for windowsmashing at Dublin, and went to prison

Uie Pope witnessed at the Vatican a cinematograph representation of the restoration of the Campanile of St Mark's, Venice.

A man was bound alive on a wheelbarrow and hurled into the sea at SaTOiia. He was drowned, a dynamite car bridge exploding having failed to injure him, though the surface of the sea was littered with fish. The act is attributed to revenge, but this is no clue to the perpetrators.

CAPE TOWN, June 22. general Botha's amendment to the I ™ &emco Bil W"i-s carried by 63 to 29. It prevents the promotion of civii servants after they have been five years in the service, unless they pass examinations in English and Dutch. i»-i? UP°l)S. ltiOn strenuously opposed the l.ill, alleging that it was an infringement of the bargain made at the National Convention.

McCulloch, of Australia, by defeating Karnson and Burke at Henley, becomes the second British representative in the sculling at Stockholm. H;^- 8 byt^ect iio?. for the Holmfirth division of lorkshire resulted: Arnold <Tiberal), 4,74U; Ellis (Unionist), 3,379 LuT-d (Labor),, 3,195.. ' 'The neutral chairman of the Scottish I'oal Conciliation Board granted the miners an increase of 6d per day . . BERLIN, June 21. Itie authorities will take over the tn-st naval Zeppelin airship in October temporarily housing it at Hamburg' Tne crew of threa officers and twelve men .are training. Cf A t/ ran?? l; t' Nicolas, aii Alsation wulptor, of Metz, has been sentenced to bye years' penal servitude for espionage The trial was a secret one i-oree Germans, a French woman, and an American will be tried shortly THE HAGUE, June' 22. n lhf t*9verniuent has withdrawn the Coast Detences Bill, including the much-TtalKed-of fortification of Flushing