GENERAL CABLES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 438, 3 October 1908, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

Sydney, October 1

At a court-martial, Seaman Millen pleaded guilty to throwing overboard gun-fittings of the warship Gibraltar, and was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment. St. Petersburg, October i.

A gang of thirty youths, by means of revolvers and bombs, captured the Warsaw-St. Petersburg mail train at Bezzany, overpowering the passengers and officials and a guard of six soldiers. They robbed the mail of a sum variously estimated at between and ,£25,000.

Melbourne, October 1

Giving evidence before the Postal Commission, Mr Hesketh, Chief Electrical Engineer, said he considered wireless telegraphy suitable, but not commercially justifiable, at present. There would not be any proper return for the outlay. Cable traffic was beyond the capacity of wireless. New York, October 1.

Quoting the expressed belief of Mr John Dillon (Nationalist member for East Mayo)—that the Irish cause, if killed in America, will soon die in Ireland —the ‘ ‘ New York Sun ” comments:

“If Mr Dillon is right, it must be mortifying to Irish enthusiasts to recognise that in all their endeavours they must still be dependent on outsiders.

“It is excusable if some outsiders are apt to conclude that the misery of the Irish people is somewhat exaggerated, or that confidence in their political representatives is in nowise universal among them.” New York, October 1.

Mr Thomas E. Hisged, of Massachusetts, whom Mr Hearst induced the Independence party to select as their candidate for the Presidency, is one of four brothers —manufacturers of axle grease—whom the Standard Oil Trust vainly tried to crush because they refused to sell their business for ,£120,000. Mr W. J. Bryan, Democratic candidate, in another letter, declares that, if he is elected, he will enforce the anti-trust laws persistently and consistently, not spasmodically and intermittently, as President Roosevelt has done.

The latter declines to reply to Mr Bryan’s last letter, on the ground that the controversy is now descending to personalities. London, September 30. The Rev. Mr Roberts, formerly a curate at Hawarden, has been so much impressed by the seriousness of the unemployed problem that, without quitting the ranks of the clergy, he has resigned from the vicarage of St. Swithin, Lewisham, to act as voluntary lecturer in the interests of the Independent Labour Party. London, September 30.

A statement made by Mr Lloyd George, Chancellor of the Exchequer, to the effect that if the House of Lords rejected the Licensing Bill the Government will not be at the end of it resources, is interpreted to mean that the Government would largely increase the duty on licenses.