GENERAL CABLES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3759, 9 March 1907, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

London, March 7. The Government will pay ,£20,000 in compensation for damage caused by the explosion at Woolwich Arsenal on February nth, which injured many shops and dwellings. Paris, March 6. King Edward has arrived at Biarritz, in the South of France. St. Petersburg, March 6.

General- Smirnoff has sent the Czar a secret report accusing General Stoessel of cowardice, favouritism, and incapacity at Port Arthur.

London, March 6

The Orient, Aberdeen, and Lund lines have made a further reduction of £2 in the fares of assisted passages to New South Wales. The Daily Telegraph states that Mr E. H. Harriman (a prominent American railway director) and his friends, by forcing shares in the Reading Railway Company from 114 to 125 on the New York Stock Exchange yesterday, made several millions sterling profit.

Berlin, March 6

Herr Dernburg, Director of the German Colonial Department, will visit the Transvaal to study the results of British economic policy. London, March 7.

Reuter’s Agency reports that two thousand English and other dock labourers have been engaged to work at Hamburg, where the local men have refused to sign for day and night work. In the House of Commons yesterday a bill, introduced by Mr Jessie Collings, to promote peasant proprietorship, was read a first time.