GENERAL CABLES.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 5805, 24 January 1906, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

CARRIED AGAINST Til 10 GOVERNMENT. (Received January 33. y. 18 p.mA i PARIS, Januaiy 23. Despite Ministerial resistance, the Chamber of Deputies, by 300 votes to 21!t, adopted a uiotiim by a Socialist member refusing salaries to biib-prc-fects. VADC A RLE SECURITIES DESTROYED. DRESS ELS, January 22. An express train was derailed near Ghent, and thirty-three British mailbags., containing two hundred thousand poitmU' worth of registered values, were burnt. PROFESSIONAL OR AMATEUR? LONDON. January 22. The Amateur Athletic Association dismissed the appeal by Shrubb, the celebrated long-distance runner, against the decision depriving iiim of his amateur status. THE SYRIAN MALOLT. SYDNEY. January 23. With reference to the ease of Malouf. the Syrian whom the Government ordered to bo deported as a prohibited immigrant, and who claims to bo an American citizen, the American Consul lias intervened on his Ix'half, and negotiations are proceeding. AN ENGINEER .MISSING. BRISBANE. January 23. Mr Buchanan, engineer of the new turbine .steamer Bingera. intended for the CJnenslaml coastal trade, is missing. He had been much worried over file turbine machinery.