CABLE NEWS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 13601, 5 February 1915, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

(Press Assn.— By Telegraph— Copyright.)

(Received February 5, 8.40 a.m.) • LONDON. Feb. 4. Obituary : Mass Braddon, the novelist. [Miss Braddon, who was 76 years of age, wrote over seventy novels of the sensational-domestic order and had never lost the popularity which "Lady Audley's Secret* brought her m 1862.]

NEW YORK, Feb. 4. The six-day bicycle race at Chicago was won by Oscar Eggswitzelland (San Francisco) and Verri (Italy], 2804 miles eight laps, a world's record.

■ #-, SYDNEY, Feb. 4. The Commodities Commission endeavored to conciliate the proprietors and news vendors at the rate of 8d per dozen., but the proprietors refused, on the ground of existing- arrancjenients with news agents for distribution. The vendors must negotiate with the news agents.

(Received. February 5 10.15 a.m.) SYDNEY, Feb. 5. The Employers' Federation passed resolutions, protesting against a clause m the Defence Department contracts, empowering a trades union walking delegate to instruct men to work, also against Government industrial competition with private enterprise, and m order to encourage enlistment; urging employers to assure preference of employment after the war to all employees who have joined the colors. 2>lv E. Ferrer, geologist with the first Scott Antarctic expedition, has arrived en route to New Zealand.

Several more Japanese business men have arrived, with a view to promoting trade with Australia.