GENERAL CABLES

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1746, 23 August 1905, Page 31

GENERAL CABLES

LONDON, August 18. A conference held at Manchester of cotton spinners’ operatives established a modus vivendi for giving operatives working twelve weeks a bonus of 5 per cent. Notices of the proposed reduction of wages which were . issued at Bolton have been withdrawn. The whole question will be renewed in 1906. The Devonport dockyard is experimenting with Australian teak and a New Zealand wood. The teak is being used to- back the armour plates on tbe cruiser Minotaur, and the New Zealand wood for planking the Royal Sovereign. LONDON, August 19. H.M.S. Powerful (a first-class cruiser of 14,200 tons, 14 guns) .relieves the Euryalus as flagship on the Australian station. Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, who acted as umpire .on a Board of Conciliation, has, owing to the fall in prices, reduced the minimum of the Welsh colliers’ sliding scale of wages. LONDON, August 19. At the Marlborough street Police Court on Thursday Hugo Watt, formerly a resident of Adelaide, was charged with attempting to procure the commission of murder. Herbert Marshall; a private detective, the principal witness for the prosecution, told an amazing story. He asserted that Watt offered to give him £SOOO if he could induoe his (Watt’s) divorced wife to visit his house, where he proposed they should chloroform her to death. Watt was remanded on bail. PARIS, August 20. Prance is protesting against the stoning and robbing of two Frenchmen while ashore at Tangier. BERLIN, August 18. Special trains have been arranged to run to the German ports visited by the British fleet. The Anglophobe press is violently urging the people not to visit the ports. BERLIN, August 19. Some natives in German East Africa report that Bishop Spies (a Catholic), two male, and two female missionaries have been murdered while travelling from Kiiwa to Linwale. The Governor of the province asks for reinforcements owing to the risings and pillage of the natives-

ROME, August 20. The Pope is building a large apartment house in the Vatican gardens for present residents of. tbe Vatican, as a precaution for preserving -he Palace treasures. VIENNA, August 20. An anarchist named Zon, arrested at Botzen on suspicion of meditating an attempt on the life of Eanperor Francis Josepri, hanged himself in prison. When taken into custody, Zon was in possession of a bomb and revolvers. CONSTANTINOPLE, August 18. The Turks, advancing steadily, captured Sukelkamis and occupied Buan, twenty-two miles south of Sanaa. CONSTANTINOPLE, August 19. ; Many bombs were discovered during a search of Armenians’ houses in Smyrna. A number of Armenians have been arrested in Constantinople. CAPETOWN, August 18. A fire destroyed the surface works at the Wolhunter mine at Johannesburg. The damage is estimated at £70,000. CAPETOWN, August 20. Under the new Constitution there are 80,000 voters in the Transvaal electorBOMBAY, August 18. Owing to the failure of the usual monsoon hundreds of villagers are starving in the Chingleput district. The Madras Government has opened relid? •works. PEKIN, August 20. A Tientsin newspaper has been suppressed for advocating the maintenance of the boycott of American goods. NEW YORK, August 19. An infernal machine was delivered at the office of Mr’ Schiff, of the Kuhu, Loeb Company, New York. Mr Schiff had previously interviewed M. de Witte in the interests of Jews in Russia. MELBOURNE, August 21. Sir John Forrest, Federal Treasurer, will deliver his Budget to-morrow. It is expected that its most interesting features will be an indication of policy on such questions as the sugar bounty, extension of the bookkeeping period, the transfer of State debts, and defence. SYDNEY, August 19. The St. Nicholas Church at. Coogee was completely destroyed by fire last night. The Chinese here have received further particulars in regard to the deported stowaways found on board the Prince Waldemar. Serious allegations of cruelty are made. The Chinese have asked) the. Norddeutscher Lloyds Company on what terms it will take the men back to Hongkong. The company states in reply that the company will charge £350. Efforts are being made to raise the money here and at Hongkong. SYDNEY, August 21. The new rules of the Commercial Travellers’ Association of Australasia were adopted at meetings held at the various capitals on Saturday. The wound suffered by Arnst in the Bathurst to Ashfield cycle road race necessitated four stitches being put in. PERTH, August 19. The Premier moved that the House acquiesces in the purchase of the Midland railway. The motion was negatived on the voices. It is expected that the Government will resign next PERTH, August 21. Cabinet has decided to ask for a dissolution as the result of the defeat of the Government on a motion to- purchase the Midland railway. It is understood that if the request is refused Mr Daglish (the Premier) will resign.