GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 21 August 1929, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES

JUTE WORKERS’ STRIKE. EMPLOYERS’ TERMS ACCEPTED. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). CALCUTTA, August 20. The Jute Workers’ Union, having accepted the employers’ terms for settlement, the mills were unable to open to-day due to the workers bailing to understand the terms of the. settlement. All are expected back at work to-day. . . The strike has cost the workers £140,000 in wages. EIRE ON LINER. OVER HALF A MILLION DAMAGE. PARIS, August 20. A fire on the liner Paris in the dock at Havre destroyed many cabins. The damage is' estimated at £640,000. / SPREAD OF CHOLERA. 2000 DEATHS. CALCUTTA, Aug. 20. The Indus floods, due to the partial burst of the Shyok Dam at Kashmir, are subsiding, rapidly, and the danger Of serious" flooding is, over. / , . The-total - deaths in'Sind; due to the cholera -epidemic,..is oyer two thousand. Refugees are flocking into Karachi. ....enormous'.GEM found.lN.. '• INDIAN MINE." CALCUTTA, Aug. 20. A sapphire weighing one thousand carats has been found in a mine in Jpper Burmah. The stone is of such enormous size tiiat its value cannot be estimated. It is said to be the property of poor Burmans FIJI tragedy. CANE INSPECTOR KILLED. . SUVA, Aug. 20. Thomas Alexander Watters, assistant cane inspector for the Colonial Sugar Refining Company at Ouvu, Sigakot’a, Fiji, was run over by a cane train locomotive on Aug. 18th. and killed.