GENERAL CABLE NEWS

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8261, 25 October 1912, Page 7

GENERAL CABLE NEWS

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright LONDON. October 23.

There aro 50CU unemployed at West Ham as an aftermath of tho dockers' strike. Many women and children aro starving. An address of British homage, with 100,000 signatures, has been presented to Madame tiarah Beruhardt, the famous French actress. Nathaniel Braddon, of Manchester, was granted a divorce from his wife, with damages (,£300; against Frank Battley Cook (.co-respondent), formerly a solicitor and deputy coroner at Salford. Respondent and 00-respondeut are now in Sydney. Tho outbreak of foot and month disease at Mullingar, County Westmeath, is spreading. Tho Greek destroyer Kora, when entering Dover to coal, collided with tho pier. Her bows were badly damaged. Miss Jones, a barmaid at a hotel in Tottenham Court road, who was shot by Stephen Titus, an Armenian, on September 2Cth, after he had killed the manageress qf tho hotel, is dead. The young fisherman, named George Ward, who, on tho Uth Last. surrendered to tho police, stating that he had murdered Nora Grey, a girl whose body was found on tho sands at Yarmouth, with a cloth wound tightly round the neck, some weeks ago, has been discharged. Tho police proved that ho was in prison in Lincolnshire at the time of the murder.

MELBOURNE, October 2-1. The Federal Government has sanctioned the formation of a military flying corps of forty-three men. Lieutenant Harrison, an Australian aeroplanist, now in England, has been appointed to the command of tho corps. Ho arrived by the Maroro from London. Mr Thomas, Minister of External Affairs, promised favorable consideration to the request of a Parliamentary deputation that Australian materials bo used in the construction of the Commonwealth Offices in London. The deputation argued that this would advertise Australian products. diving evidence before the commission that is inquiring regarding life-saving E revisions on ships, Mr Balsillio, wire3ss expert, stated that 85 per cent, of the wireless business of Australia was what was known as "love and kisses”— namely, messages between friends. Only 5 per cent, were bona fide commercial messages.

SYDNEY, October 24. The annual conference of the Country Frees Association has opened. New Zealand is represented. BRISBANE, October 24. The official estimate of the wheat yield is 1,240,000 bushels.

(Received October 24, 10 p.m.) LONDON, October 24. Gladys Vane, one of the women concerned in the suffragette disturbance at Dublin during Mr Asquith’s visit in August, has been re-arrested for failing to report herself to the ponce. Frederick Lowton and William Dennigan, the youths who held up a wineshop manager at Balsham, were charged "with shooting at him with a revolver; The police produced evidence that Dennigan had been in Australia, and was a daring fellow.