GENERAL CABLE NEWS
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IjONDON, August 21
The net personalty in the estate of the late Edward Tcrrv (actor) has been proved at £10,000.
August 22. (Received August 22, at 10.20 p.m.) Hie Trade Union Congress will open at Newport (Wnles) on September 2. Five hundred delegates will represent 2,000,000 members—an increase of 340,000 members sincc 1911.
BERLIN, August 22. (Received August 22, at 11.15 p.m.) The Tagliscbe Rundschau frankly declares that the best o( Germany's dirigibles are ineffective against the attacks of swifter aeroplanes.
CAPETOWN, August 22. (Received August 22, at 11.15 p.m.) The liulawayo Chamber of Commerce lias adopted a resolution declining that the abnormal cost of living is due to tlio tariff ami high transit charges, and expressing the opinion that Rhodesiau interests demand the withdrawal from the Customs Convention.
NEW YORK. August 22. (Received August 22, at 9.15 p.m.) The fivo balloonists who were carried nut t-o sea at Los Angeles have landed safely. A change in the wind carried them shoreward* after live hoars' immersion in a fog. (Received August 23, at 0.55 a.m.)
The American Federation of Catholic Societies has passed a resolution denouncing divorce on any terms, and regretting its growing prevalence.
SYDNEY. August 22. (Received August 22, at 10.20 p.m.) The .Minister of Justice has declined to accede io the Labour Unions' further appeal to rel«uH! Ilatton, one of the Litligow strike loaders. (Received August 25. at 1.15 a.m.) Dr Mackin has returned from a year's lour of the worid. He visited many leading European and other hospitals, and gained much valuable information. He will jail for New Zealand on Saturdav.
MELBOURNE, August 22.
The l'Ydeul Prime Minister (Mr I'isher) has n.) information of a proposed conference t« discus* a Stutcowned Atlantic cable.
GENERAL CABLE NEWS
Otago Daily Times, Issue 15540, 23 August 1912, Page 5
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