GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 17 January 1931, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

COAL DISPUTE

[United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. ]

LONDON. Ja unary 16

Air Skelton said an agreement, on a majority of the points was reached in the South "Wales coal dispute. He hoped the agreement would be submitted to the .Miners Conference at Cardiff to-day, and if accepted work resumes on Monday.

BRITISH ELECTORAL BILL

LONDON, Januarj- 16

'l'he adoption of preferential voting is exactly similar to the Australia’s abolition of double electorates. University seats votes are plural except the City of London. The restriction of the use of vehicles ahd the reduction of election expenses, are the chief points in the Government’s Amending Bill.

WELSH COAL SETTLEMENT.

LONDON, Jan. 16

The terms of the provisional agreement in the coal dispute include the resumption at the rates of pay ruling in November, 1930, the underground workers working seven and a half hours daily. A joint Conciliation Board is considering a minimum per eentage subsistence wage, The agreement lasts at least until-the 31st of January, 1934,

CHINESE REBELS. (Received this day at 11 a.m.) SHANGHAI, January 16. Increasing alarm is felt owing to the growth of Communist menace in Central China. Loyal troops have been deflecting to the Reds until there are fifty thousand, well armed, opposing the Government’s divisions. Communist leaders are mostly returned students rfom Moscow and France, and are establishing propaganda school and sending girls to the front to encourage the Reds to entice the Government troops to become traitors.

DEFIANT INDIANS

DELHI, January 1G

Defiant ns over, Bombay’s War Council although declared an unlawful association announced they are going to enforce the stoppage of business and traffic, including the cessation of work at mills, workshops, markets, and shops throughout Bombay.

Trouble ocurred to-day at Ahmednbad where the police fired on a defiant mob. demonstrating in connection with Shrliipur executions. It is believea 150 were injured.