GENERAL CABLE NEWS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19146, 14 April 1924, Page 8

GENERAL CABLE NEWS

Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, April 12. (Received April 13, at 5.5 p.m.) The Manchester Cotton Sp'nners’ Federation has decided to continue half time working with 100,000 employees til' September.—A. and N.Z. Cable. EMPIRE STUDENTS’ CONFERENCE. LONDON, April_ 12. (Received April 13, at 5.5 p.m.) A committee is arranging for hospitality in connection with the Empire Students Conference, sitting in London and Cambridge in July.—A. and N.Z. Cable. SUMMER TIME BILL. LONDON, April 12. (Received April 13, at 5.5 p.m.) While snow was falling outside theie was an amusing debate in the House ot Commons on the summer time Bill, permanently fixing the period of summer from the first Sunday in April till the first Sunday in October. The Bill was read a second time bv 169 votes 129.—A. and N.Z. Cable. CONSCRIPTION IN SAGHALIEN. NEW YORK, April 11. (Received April 13, at 5.5 p.m.) The New York Times’s Tokio correspondent says that the Japanese War -Department will shortly issue a decree announcing military conscription in the southern portion of Saghalien, to become effective next August. This is a new policy to extend compulsory military service to the colonies.—A. and N.z,. Cable. JUGOSLAV GOVERNMENT RESIGNS. BELGRADE, April 12. (Received April 13, at 11.25 p.m.j M. Pachitch’s coalition Ministry has resigned as it believes an election is necessary to clear up the situation.