GENERAL CABLE NEWS

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8296, 6 December 1912, Page 8

GENERAL CABLE NEWS

FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE. LONDON. December 4. Owing to cattle with foot and mouth disease being received at Birkenhead from Newry. Irish importations have been prohibited, FOOTBALL. LONDON, December 4. The South African footballers defeated Ulster by 19 points to nil. WEST AUSTRALIAN LOAN. PERTH. December 4. The Premier, Mr. Scaddan, gave notice in the Assembly to-day of a Bill bo authorise the raising of a loan of £5,600,000. OBIT CART, SYDNEY, December 4. The death is recorded of • Lady Windeyer, wife of the late Judge Windeyer, NEW SOUTH WALES PARLIAMENT. SYDNEY, December 5. After a series of protracted sittings occupied chiefly by discussions on Works Bills covering several million pounds, the session has ended. There has been formal adjournment until to-day. Amongst the numbers of measures shelved are the Income Tax,. Early Closing, State Ironworks, and Tenants’ Improvement Bills. SYDNEY GOVERNMENT HOUSE. SYDNEY. December 5. Twenty-three petitions have been presented against the Government's action in connection with Government House. In reply to questions the Premier (Mr McGowen) declined to accept a challenge, to produce the letters he stated he had received endorsing' the Government’s action. Regarding the legal opinion obtained, Mr McGowen said: "If an injunction to restrain the Government can be obtained, let it be." MOUNT MORGAN MINE. BRISBANE, December 5. Daring November the- Mount Morgan copper reduction works treated 25,7X9 tons of ore, which yielded 864 tons of blister copper, containing 855 tone of copper and 13,0790 z of gold, the total value being .£106,216. A LIBEL ACTION. LONDON. December 4. Lord Graves, who sued the Earl of Galloway for libel in writing to Lord Graves’s eon, the Hon. Clarence Graves, suggesting that his father had induced Captain. Fyers to invest in a shaky gold mine in the Yukon, has been awarded .£SOO. GOVERNMENT DEFENDED. SYDNEY, December 5. The Attorney-General (Mr Holman), in. a speech at Wellington defending the Government, said that before it left office over three million acres would be opened for settlement. It was the first Government not to make the interests of a single city dominate those of the State. . CABLE RATES. LONDON. December 4. Mr- Herbert Samuel, Postmaster-Gen-’ eral, in reply to Mr Harry Lawson in the House of Commons, stated that the terminal charges in Australia prevented a larger reduction in cable rates at present. (Received December,. 6, 1.5 a.m.) MELBOURNE, December 5. Mr Frazer, referring to the terminal charges on cablegrams, said he was unable to express a definite opinion. The charges were under consideration. SYDNEY GAS BILL. SYDNEY, December S. The Parliamentary compromise over the Gas Bill will probably end the dispute between the company and its employees. The company is re-engaging men. ‘ FLOGGING CRIMINALS. (Received December 6, 1 aja.) MELBOURNE. December 5. A deputation from the Criminological Society asked Mr Murray to ‘ cancel floggings of Moore and McDonald, two '‘lifers." Mr Murray was decidedly unsympathetic, and said the only way to reach such men was through their skins. Cabinet decided that one flogging, at least, should be administered, and there was no reason to reopen the matter, matter. STRIKERS AND STRIKE-BREAKERS. (Received December 5, 11.30 p.m.) OTTAWA, December 5. Strikers attacked a train carrying strike-breakers, and assaulted tbo men. Additional police have been despatched.