GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 144146, 16 July 1913, Page 3

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

ARBITRATION SCHEME BLOCKED. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. —COPYRIGHT. NEW YORK, July 15. Mr. Bryan declares that AngloAmerican arbitration has been blocked by the Senators’ clique. WINDSOR CASTLE REOPENED. LONDON, July IS. The Windsor State Apartments have been reopened to visitors, and are boguarded by tho tho bags, sticks and mibrcllas of visitors being removed. FRENCH COLOURED TROOPS. PARIS, July 15. African and Asiatic troops figured for tho first time in tho 14th or July review at Longchamps. if. Poincare presented them with colours. THE AUSTRIAN NAVY. VIENNA, July 15. An order has been given to place the second Dreadnought, tho Tigotthof, in .commission. She was launched in lylA A NOVEL CLOCK. BERLIN, July 15. A clock exhibited utilises a phonograph and speaks the time of day. A GERMAN STRIKE. BERLIN, July 15. Tho workmen at the Vulcan yards at Hamburg, and some at Blobm, Voss and Co.’s yards, have struck for an mcrea'se of wages. A BIG WATERPLANE. SYDNEY SUN SPECIAL CABLE. (Received July 16, 8 a.m.) LONDON, July 16. Colonel Cody’s waterplane, the biggest in England, has wings ,60 feet across. LONDON’S POOR. SYDNEY SUN SPECIAL CABLE. (Received July 16, 8 a.m.) LONDON, July 15. Tho pauper population of London numbers 98,298. The Lord Mayor of London is opening a colony for unemployables at Wallingford, which will cost £25,300. A THREATENED STRlKE(Received July 16, 9.45 a.m.) LONDON, July 15. Tho riveters on the Clyde are dissatisfied with the" pooled vote of different sections and have , resolved to insist on a five per cent, advance or to strike in August, ’