GENERAL CABLES

Waikato Times, Volume 87, Issue 13274, 1 September 1916, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

AUSTRIAN LEGISLATORS. MANY PUNISHED FOR TREASON. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) BERNE, August 31. There arc thirty-five vacant seats in the Austrian Parliament, all vacated since 1914. The occupants were mostly hanged or imprisoned iur high treason. HUGE LAWSUIT IN U.S.A. 160,000,000 DOLLARS INYOIVED. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) NEW YORK, August 31. The largest suit in the history of the Federal Courts has been begun by five (Stockholders in the New York-New Haven-Hartford railway, who demand that the estate of the late J. P. Morgan should restore 160,000,000 dollars (£3:;.000,000) to the railway which they declare has been lost through Morgan's effor s to create a monopoly of transport .n New England. ANTI-CONSCRIPTION IST SENTENCED. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) LONDON, August 31. Cli t'ord Allen, formerly chairman of the Non-conscript ion Fellowship, was sentenced to a year's hard labour for disobedience of military orders. RED CROSS FUNDS. MEAT MERCHANTS' EFFORTS. LONDON, August 31. The meat trade's Red Cross Fund £ has reached £90,000. The committee is f offering the original Kitchener's letter calling for recruits or a thousand guineas as a prize to the person guessing the nearest to the number of marriages and births in England in 1916. Other prizes amounting to £SOO are being offered. The meat traders are providing the prize money. One is giving £IOOO for a competition open to Australia and New Zealand. The shilling entrance fee is to go to the fund. OLD AGE PENSIONS. GRANT OF ALLOWANCES. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) LONDON, August 31. It is officially stated that with a view to relieving the distress of old age pensioners the Government intends making a grant to meet the increased cost of living. Allowances not exceeding an additional 2s fid weekly will be made to those suffering hardships arising out of the war. DISASTROUS FIRE. DAMAGE £150,000. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) SYDNEY, August 31. The Public Supply Stores, in Sydney, were completely destroyed by fire early this morning. Ten surrounding buildings were damaged. The falling walls destroyed adjacent shops, smashed the telephone wires, and blocked the street. The total damage is estimated at £150,000. The insurances are: Colonial Mutual £21,000, Norwich L'nion £IO,OOO, New Zealand £4500.