GENERAL CABLES.
London, Dec. 17
Rear-Admiral Douglas Austin Gamble has been appointed Naval Adviser to Turkey. Mr Crawford, of the British Customs service, will re-organise the Turkish Customs Department. Caracas, Dec. 17.
Rioting and pillaging at Caracas compelled the Government to proclaim martial law, after several persons had been killed. The effigy of President Castro (now in Germany) was publicly burned.
Sydney, Dec. 17
The New South Wales Assembly has passed a Minimum Wage Bill, under which the minimum wage for boys and girls is fixed at 4s weekly. The Labour party fought for a minimum of ss. Mr Wade, the Premier, argued that the Bill was a piece of experimental legislation. If experience proved that it might be safely done, the minimum could be raised. Under the New Zealand Factories Act the minimum wage, for some five years past, has been 5s a week
for the first year. St. Petersburg, Dec. 17
A Government Bill proposing to allot a million roubles to employees of prisons who have been victims of outrages while on duty caused stormy and passionate scenes in the Duma, ending in the resignation of the President, M. Nicholas A. Homiakoff. The Social Democrat and Labour delegates accused the Government of torturing and killing prisoners. The Duma, nevertheless, voted the money. The Opposition press declares that 1691 death sentences have been passed and 663 executions have taken place this year. Paris, Dec. 17. Thirteen passengers were killed and 30 injured in a collision at Orleans railway station. A number of trucks which were uncoupled from the goods train ran furiously down an incline and collided with a passenger train in a tunnel between Briene and Imoges. The carriages soon took fire, and the tunnel became a hugh oven. A number were burnt alive, amid awful scenes. Rescue was impossible. London, Dec. 17. The Waratahs (one goal two tries) beat Glamorgan League (one try). The professional Leaguers (two tries) beat Treherber (one try).
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 443, 19 December 1908, Page 3
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