GENERAL CABLE NEWS.
AN ELOPEMENT TO NEW ZEALAND. United Presb Association— CorntiGH* 'LONDON, July 30. William Ransom, licensed victualler, of Wallsall, obtained £ISOO damages and a divorce from his wife, who eloped with Isaiah Oldbury, thrice' Mayor of Wednesbury, to Christchurch, New Zealand, with her children. LABOR EXCHANGES BILL. In the House of Commons the Labor Exchanges Bill was read a third, time. . SHORTAGIToF TEA. Owing to a drought in India, there is a shortage in the shipment ctf tea to England. REST CURE FOR GENERAL BOTHA. General Botha has been ordered a rest cure at Kissingen on the Continent. DESERTERS PARDONED, MOROCCO, July 30. M. Briand, the French Premier, has pardoned the deserters from the Foreign Legion, who were recently court martfalled at Casablanca. [The deserters are Germany and their desertion nearly led to serious trouble between France and Germany.]
ARBITRATION COURT COSTS. MELBOURNE, July 31. The total cost to the employers and employes of the Government in contesting cases before the Federal Arbitration Court to date amounts to £36,491. MAORI SHEARERS. The Federal immigration officials have so far received no application for permission to introduce Maori contract shearers.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2569, 2 August 1909, Page 5
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190GENERAL CABLE NEWS. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2569, 2 August 1909, Page 5
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