CABLE NEWS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 13069, 8 May 1913, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

(Australian Pr©aa Special*) . ihe Czar has ratified a Bill for rai* iijg during the current ywT*>n°in£nt of jeoruits to the number of 455*000 . A co«nt taken last Sunday m a villarre i" Surr 7 that no 7 Swer tffi 3500 motor oars passed through the Paris -S vft -^ • air 5 lan flew /rom General Bramwell Booth has appointed Commissioner Lamb to visit Austral^ and New Zealand. The officer wa" oTcLada^' "* V™" d * wi'iST?^^ the ° ther m«nbers of the British Peace Delegation were received by the King at BuekinoWX ""» raUed fw NBW ** Mme. Melba gave a special concert m Paris, and was received with tumultuous acclamation. She has been compel™y° F° mis . c another appearance on Wednesday night. A seamen's strike is threatened for June, the object being to secure a Conciliation Board. Mr fom Mann has been engaged to organise the men employed Ol \the t Tanß por| servioes. * " Mr Charles Frohman, the well-known American theatrical manager, stated m the course of an interview yesterday that Canada' was coming into the field of theatncal enterprise. Five thousand dockers at Liverpool . and Birkenhead carried out on Saturday what w known as a one-day-a-week strike as a. protest against the half-day's work, on Saturday. It is announced that the future programme of the railway men m Britain will include a minmum wage of 30s a week, andean eight-hours' day. These changes will cost the companies £7,000,UUU a year Lord Brooke, a captain m the 3rd battalion Essex Regiment, will command a mountain brigade at the Canadian summer camp this year, this being the frrst interchange of officers with Canada Vir r «m new arrangement with tha war Office. Mr Asquith has been asked to receive a deputation of working women who desire to put forward reasons m opposition to the granting of the vote to women. Owing to fears of a suffragette outrage nt Cranford Manor, the- country residence of Lord Wimborne, an extra constable has been placed on ni<?ht duty. The cost of the provision is £94 a year Lord Wimborne'g son is a prominent figure m the anti-suffrage movement.