GENERAL CABLES

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4306, 15 March 1901, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

A NEW AGENT-GENERAL. PERTH, March 14. The Hon H. B. Lefroy, Minister for Mines, has been appointed Agent-Gene-ral in London. The vacancy in the Ministry will not he filled till after the general'elections. GREAT LOSSES OF STOCK. BRISBANE, March 14. As showing the effects of the drought, it is stated that on nine stations in the Gregory districts, which last year carried 100,000 cattle, 142,000 sheep and 2000 horses, there are now only 9000 cattle, 48,000 sheep and 400 horses. A MOTHER'S DESPAIR. (Received March 15, 0.22 a.m.) SIDjnEY, March 14. A young 'unmarried woman named Hutchison drowned herself and her two-year-old child in the harbour. She left a pitiful note saying she had been persecuted, and could not leave the child to go through what she had gone through. THREATENED LABOUR TROUBLES. (Received March 15, 0.22 a.m.) SYDNEY-, March 14. Trouble is threatened between the owners of. steam colliers and the Coal Lumpers’ Union. The owners complained of the limited number and unpunctuality of the lumpers causing delay in loading. In the event of the union failing to take steps to remove the grounds of complaint, the owners intend ’to lay up the whole of the colliers on Saturday night. ;