THE TIMES-SYDNEY SUN SPECIAL CABLES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 15856, 30 August 1913, Page 10

THE TIMES-SYDNEY SUN SPECIAL CABLES.

Pimi Association—By Telegraph—Copyright, i LONDON, August 28.' The Manchester Municipal' Council lias adopted a £1,000,000 building improvement scheme. The agenda for the annual conference of the Miners" Federation meeting in October includes a proposal to secure a minimum wage of 7s a'day for all miners. The operative bakers resorted to a lightning strike. They downed tools, picketed the' shops, and announced, there would be no broad baked without an agreement for a nine-hour day (including a meal hour), a weekly wage of 345, and exclusive employment of unionists.., Their demands were immediately granted. At the International Transport Workers' Conference Mr Havelock Wilson denied that there were splits in the Seamen's Union, but men had been expelled who believed in the, pay of the Shipping Federation. He added that the seamen had-no chance of success in a strike unless they had £150,000 in their trasury LONDON, August 28. (Received Aug. 29, at 7.40 p.m.) - The death of Mr Bernard Quaritch, bookseller, ie announced. PARIS, August 28. (Received Aug. 29, at 7.40 p.m.) It is reported that a portrait of an old man by Rembrandt has been discovered in "a store room at.-the Calais Museuim Replicas of the picture revealed under the paint four signatures by Rembrandt dated 1648.. '■'• '■■ • ROME, August 28, (Received Aug. 29, at 7.40 p.m.) An airship from Innsbruck landed at Galerionb. Three aeronauts were arrested. HAMBURG,, August 28. The aviator Guilkvux, a competitor for the Pommery Cup, has arrived here. He complains that the German authority searched and undressed him. They removed his pocket-book and money, and detained him 24. hours, NEW YORK, August 28, Fiye'persons were killed in a collision between a motor caT and a train at a level crossing on the Pennsylvania railway, The motor car was coasting downhill, and the brakes would not act.