GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14806, 9 October 1911, Page 8

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

-- J/ FROM THE AUSTRALIAN* PAPERS. ' WORLD'S BIGGEST DRY DOCg. The Canadian Government has accepted Messrs. Griffiths and Co.'s tender cj £1.562,500 for the construction of dockSj J one of which will be the largest dry dock, in the world. The leading European firing ■ tendered for the work. <3^ MISCHIEF-MAKING MONK. ■■ '• The authorities at St. Petersburg are taking energetic steps ' to * prevent a - massacre of Jews in the ZarLzyn district. Thel violent anti-Semitic tirades of a monk have - -J caused mteriSe feeling ' among the people,7v who have been aroused to the point cf- r " threatening life and property. • A SERVIAN SENSATION. A widespread plot to dethrone King Peter of Servia and instal the Crown •; Prince is reported' to have- been discov- s ered in Belgrade. The conspiracy is tha outcome of the revelations made by 11. Nowakowitch/ a former Cabinet Minister. ■ M. Nowakowitch declares that King Peter actively participated in the conspiracy that culminated in the murder of King Alexander and his consort, Queen Draga. Many - of the leaders of the present conspiracy have been arrested. ' ' -

AN , OVERCROWDED LIFT. The overcrowding of the elevator at the • Oddfellows' Building. San Francisco, caused the steel cable to enap last week. & The safety clutch gripped after the lift ) had dropped 50ft. Twenty-eight women . and children escaped with minor injuries." They were rescued by the'fireinea ? a hole' through the steel top of the cage. "

• • • • NO MORE - FEEE SMOKES. ■ . cvgrthmhuk/. T.s-4 Tho cigarmakers in Taxnpa, Florida, ara up in arms against what they . regard . as an invasion of their privileges. Hitherto the hands employed in the cigar factories have been allowed to take a-certain num- - ber of cigars for their own. consumption, v The manufacturers, however, have found ji that this custom has become . a rather costly one, and they have therefore decided to discontinue it. Notices were J accordingly posted in the . factories in- ;.,, forming the employees that no more free smokes were to be allowed. The men ara rebelling against the new order, and it is not unlikely .that 12,000 workers will quit work if the manufacturers .do not recon- rj sider their decision. .

DEVELOPING MANCHUEIA. According to the Kokumin Shlmbun, a y|| Ministerial organ .of Toldo, the Unitedo States has obtained, by means of a secret ; treaty, a perpetual lease of 50,000 acres of land near Harbin, in Manchuria. The land is to be improved by the International , ;;; Harvester Co. China will provide mil:tary guards, and will defray-the cost of importing the necessary labour, the object.' ;! .being to employ , part of the recent big loan %• in developing Manchuria. ~ -- ; - . - . " ■■ ■ ■ '

LADIES FIGHT A FATAL DUEL, A tragic affair is reported from Cettinje, ii the Montenegrin capital. Two young; ;J Court ladies, Mdlle. Bridganivie and-T Mdlle. , Maradie, were rivals for the affections of Captain 'Michezaky, ' one of King Nicholas's aides-de-camp. They " had - al- j ways been close friends, and Captain 1 Michezaky. well aware that the. pair were fl in love with him, tried to avert trouble by j bestowing no more attention upon one than t upon the other. This line of conduct on the captain's part only had .the result of fii making the two " women" bitter enemies, and the climax was reached when the three were present at a ball, s-jt Shortly before ,| midnight two of Mdlle. i .Bridganivie's | friends called Mdlle. Maradie aside, and told her plainly that she would have ta ' fight for the man she was trying to win. Mdlle. Maradie readily assented to a meet- - ing with her rival, and arrangements for a a the duel having been quickly made the two women, with their friends, left the ballroom and drove straight to the forest outside the city. Armed with revolvers, the-.'; adversaries took up their appointed positions. and as they turned and faced each . other two shots simultaneously rang out.ls Bridganivie dropped dead, " shot clean through the heart. -; Maradie also was mortally wounded. She staggered a few paces ' ' and" then collapsed. Her. friends removed !; her to the nearest hospital, where, how*:o. ever, she died a few hours later. " \"'o