GENERAL CABLE NEWS
A manhood surage law, quadrupling the franchise, has been promulgated in Japan. It will become operative in the 1928 general elections.
Two more attempts at train wrecking are reported from “Warsaw. Two bombs were found on the Vilna-Riga line, near Dukstzy, and a barricade ox stones near Lublin.
At the inquest of Vlachos, a Greek, who was murdered in Adelaide, tho coroner returned a verdict that Vlachos died from injuries caused by Benetos and Tsontos, and that they murdered Vlachos.
In the London Courts, Lady Sliolto Douglas obtained a decree absolute, enabling her marriago with Prince Burliam Eddin, son of tho ex-Sultan Abdul Hamid. Prince Burban lives in a luxurious mansion in Vienna.
Thirty-two members of tho Sydney Engine Drivers’ and Firemen’s Union, who coased work at tho Government dockyard, Walsh Island, resumed yesterday morning under the same conditions that existed before the dispute.
The hotels, tea rooms, and restaurants aro nearly all closed as a result of the employees’ stop-work meeting. The strikers aro picketing premises to prevent tho public entering. A few demonstrations occurred. Tho Acting-President of the Arbitration Court has called a. compulsory conference of the parties.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, 9 May 1925, Page 9
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193GENERAL CABLE NEWS Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, 9 May 1925, Page 9
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