GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 144133, 1 July 1913, Page 3

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

LABOURER’S WAGES. By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. (Received July 1, 10.40 a.m.) LONDON, Juno 30. Ten thousand labourers in the engineering trade at Sheffield have received an advance, making a minimum wage of 23s weekly. THE CRYSTAL PALACE. (Received July 1, 10.40 a.m.) LONDON, June 30. The Times has 'opened a fund to support the Lord Mayor’s appeal for the £90,000 required to save the Crystal Palace for the public. HOTEL ROBBERY. (Received July 1, 10.40 a.m.) LONDON, June 30. Stephen Sharraan has been arrested in connection with the Berkeley Hotel robbery. A NEW ZEALANDER’S GIFT. LONDON, June f\o. A New Zealander, an old hoy,- has offered the Commercial Travellers’ Schocfl a challenge shield for rifle shooting. A WOMAN’S CONFESSION. BERLIN, Jnne 30. At the trial of a widow named Koeckoritz, sentenced to death for u\eidering her lover, whose remains were burned, she confessed to baking and eating his heart. COMPULSORY SERVICE. _. LONDON, June 30. Hr. Aoland, in a speech at London, admitted that if compulsory service was necessary for defence it must be adopted whether they liked it or not, but until the case for compulsion, was proved there was no need to change. •