GENERAL CABLES

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1756, 1 November 1905, Page 31

GENERAL CABLES

LONDON, October 27. The Trades Unions are defying M? Sim, the Chief Registrar of Friendly Societies, in connection with his refusal to sanction trade unions paying contributions to salaries for members of Parliament. They declare that Mr Sim passed the rules of the Boot and Shoe Operatives’ Union containing the very provision for payments which he has now disallowed. General Booth had a great reception at the Guildhall. He declared that the Salvation Army was now generally recognised for what it nrcfessed to be —a friend to the homeless. The by-election for . the Hampstead seat resulted as follows: —Mr Fletcher (Unionist), 4225; Mr Rowe (Liberal), 3303 ; maioritv for Mr Fletcher, 422. LONDON, October 29. The annual report of Dalgety and Co. shows the net profits for the year to bo .£85,892. A dividend of 6 per cent, has been declared, £25,000 added to the reserve, and £56,400 carried forward. The Natal Agent-General is urging Hm Imperial Government to oonveitDurban into a naval base for the Cape station. _ __ BER-LiIN, Octooer 27. The Kaiser has cordially congratulated Count Leopold of Lippe-Detmold on establishing his right of succession. BERLIN, October 30. Fresh demands for the German navy and the heavy costs incurred in dealing with the native risings in Africa are expected to necessitate new taxation amounting to from seven and a half to ten million pounds. PARIS, October 2 1. M Lebaudy’s steerable balloon ascended 15,000 feet, travelling thirty feet per second against the wind. The machine was easily directed. The military officers are amazed at the resuit, and consider the trials conclusive. LISBON, October 29. Advices from Loanda, the capital of the Portuguese province of Angola, in South-west Africa, states that natives in ambush opened a heavy fire on a Portuguese force. The latter took a kraal .at Quissongs in face of the resistance of three thousand natives, many of whom were killed. The troops also stormed entrenchments and five redoubts, carrying another kraal. T.vo natives an.d three Portuguese were killed, and twelve Portuguese were wounded. MADRID, October 29. The Spanish armoured cruiser Cardinal Cisneros (6889 tons) struck a rock during a fog off the Mexeldo headland. near Corunna, and sank. The crew were saved. MADRID, October 30. The Cardinal Cisneros struck an uncharted rock, which tore a.n enormous hole in her hows. She sank in forty minutes. PORT SAIL, October 27. The Renown, with the Prince _ of Wales and party on board, has arrived SUEZ, October 29. Night traffic - on the Suez Canal, which had been suspended since the blowing up of the wrecked steamer Chatham early this month, has now been resumed. • TGXIO, October 27. The Tokio municipality did not invite the members of the Ministry to the reception held in honour of Admiral Togo, owing to the terms of the Peace Treaty. The Mikado invited four thousand naval officers to functions held at the palace—-an unprecedented proceeding. At a garden party tendered at Nagasaki to Russian officers who are returning to Europe, the healths of the Czar and of the Mikado were enthusiastically toasted. A large Japanese conversion of external and internal loans will be launched at the earliest opportunity. TOKIO, October 28, The Japanese rice crop is much below the estimated yield. In three prefectures the people are threatened with famine. TOKIO, October 30. A grand Shinto service was held at the Aoyarna cemetery, Toldo, in honour of those who -were killed in the naval battles during the war with Russia. Among those present were princes, admirals, officers, and thousands of sailors. Admiral Togo delivered a touching address, exhibiting keen emotion. Japanese naval experts have decided that in future battleships shall have a displacement of 22,000 tons and a speed of 24 knots, and shall be armed 4.12 in guns. Cruiser's are to have a displacement of 15,000 tons and a speed of 25 knots. CAPETOWN, October 29. The newspaper “ Bloemfontein Post ” announces that immediate representative government will be granted the Orange River Colony on the lines of the late Free State Constitution. MELBOURNE, October 30. A regulation is being issued authoris-

ing the cutting off of telephones from “tote” shops and disorderly houses. SYDNEY, October 30. The annual report of the Registrar of Friendly Societies and Trades Unions shows that at the end of last year* there were 152 societies in existence with a membership of 79,815, and haying assets amounting to over £69,000. PERTH, October 30. The returns are sufficiently complete to show that the Government has a mar jority of sixteen or seventeen over the other parties combined. Those defeated include Mr Jacoby (Speaker) and exSenator Harvey. The Labour party lost nine seats. HOBART, October 28. Hie Assembly has passed the Local Option Bill. Its chief provisions are : No drink to be sold on polling day. Half the electors on the roll must record their votes in order to make a poll valid. A compensation fund is to be in force five years before the first poll is taken. The basis of compensation to the owner is to be the difference between the-assessed and capital value of a licensed house and an unlicensed one, and for the licensee the compensation to be the value of the goodwill of the business during the previous year. BRISBANE, October 30.

A woman found a Chinaman trespassing in a house, and struck him with an iron bar, killing him.