GENERAL CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2192, 23 September 1907, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

United Press Association—Copyright Received Sept. 22, 4.30 p.m. LONDON, Sept. 21. Mr. Fox, secretary of the Amalgamated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen, declares that its 29,000 members, the majority of whom are engine-drivers, will not join the Amalgamated Society of Railwaymen in the event of the latter striking. He firmly believes that there will be no strike. The new Cunard liner Mauretania has completed the builders’ preliminary tests. The behaviour of the .•cssel at sea is said to have been comoletely satisfactory. The official speed trials will be made later. Lord Roseberv speaking at Glas- i. COW, aiid lie was convinced an effective second Chamber was necessary ior the welfare of the country and the maintenance of the Constitution, It was better to have a weak barrier like tho House of Lords than no harrier to the dangerous, detestable tyranny of a single Chamber. He thought the House of Lords recognised tlie gravity of its position, and was determined to adapt itself to the ;iew conditions by setting jits house m order without pressure or menace. Received Sept. 22, 4.46 p.m. ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. 21. A Lodz spinner named Silderskiin bas been murdered by his employees for refusing to pay them their wages for a. fortnight, during which they were on strike. Troops and police surrounded the building, and subselneatly arrested 800 of the employees. The Standardt’s disaster was due to tlie captain not receiving the Russian Hydrographic Department’s new chart showing tlie rocks where she stranded.