GENERAL CABLES.
Received December 5, 8.5S a.m
LONDON, December 4
Lord Tweedmouth, First Lord of the Admiralty, speaking at Chelmsford, and referring to the House of Lords, declared that it was ridiculous that anyone simply by right of birth should be able to veto the actions of the people's elected representatives. BERNE, December 4.
Wireless communication between stations at Mount Righi and the canton de Valais failed owing to the mountains between.
Many German, English, French and Russian messages were received at the canton de Valais. LONDON, December 4.
The New Hebrides Company, Limited, with a capital of £50,000, has been registered as an exploration and trading corporation, and will adopt the agreement entered into with M, Leclerc.
WASHINGTON, December 4, President Roosevelt proposes to repeal the duty on wood pulp.
j Many halfpenny newspapers are m- / creasing their prices owing to the ' shortage of pulp. I LONDON, December 5.
At a meeting of the committee on vegetable fibre in wool, it was announced that the replies from the Calcutta balemakers were unsatisfactory. A sub-committee was appointed to consider the whole question of packs, including all wool packs, and the American process of rendeiing jute samples.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8997, 6 December 1907, Page 5
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196GENERAL CABLES. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8997, 6 December 1907, Page 5
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