GENERAL CABLES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 449, 30 January 1909, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

London, January 26

Carrie Nation, the American saloon smasher, appeared on the stage at the Canterbury Music Hall, London. The audience abruptly stopped the turn, pelting her with rotten eggs and drenching her with water.

New York, January 28

On landing at New York, Captain Sealby, commander of the Republic, and John Burns, the operator of the Marcouigram apparatus, who stuck to his post to the last at great personal peril, were carried shoulder high along the pier.

Women mobbed them and smothered them with kisses. The State Senate of New York eulogised Burns and the officers and crews of the Republic and the Florida for their conduct after the collision.

London, January 27

Sir Robert Anderson, late head of the Criminal Investigation Department, condemns the Government’s apathy towards Anarchists. jyfEEBOURNE, January 28.

A tramcar ran into a waggon containing five men, near Geelong. One man, named Smith, was hurled against a post, and his brains were dashed outtwo others, Watkins and Brown, were thrown over an embankment and badly injured; the others sustained minor injuries.

Adelaide, Jauuary 28

A sudden gale demolished the scaffolding of a building at Norwood, and two men, who were at work on it, were precipitated to the ground. One, named Cotton, was killed instantaneously. His mate had a marvellous escape. Three passers-by were buried in the debris, and two boys were seriously injured. London, January 27.

Henry Hess, for years editor of the financial paper the “ Critic,” and proprietor of a speculative agency called the “Critic” Agency, was convicted at the Old Bailey on a charge of publishing, as a director of a public company, a false statement with intent to deceive. Accused was also convicted ot converting to his own use ,£1428, the proceeds of a cheque belonging to the company (the Common Weal Consolidated, Limited). The false statement was to the effect that ,£IO,OOO belonging to the company was in the bank, and another ,£15,000 in the hands of an unnamed firm.

On each of four separate charges Hess was sentenced to twelve months’ imprisonment. The sentences will run concurrently. Imprisonment will be in the second division (which is a grade easier than hard labour). The jury recommended the prisoner to leniency in view of his previous unblemished character.

Sydney, January 28

Tom Mann, who was among those committed for trial on the rioting charges at Broken Hill, has declined to accept bail on condition that he will not participate in affairs at Broken Hill. Tom Mann was granted bail on condition that he leaves the State. He has accepted this condition, and will go to Port Pirie (the Proprietory Company’s smelting works in the adjacent State of South Australia, which are also closely picketed, the men being out in sympathy with those at Broken Hill). London, January 28.

The policeman Tyler, who was killed by the Russian desperadoes, had a great funeral procession, in which 5000 of his comrades walked, Jacob, one of the Russians who was killed, was secretly butied in a disused corner of the Walthamstow Cemetery, for the purpose of avoiding an Anarchist demonstration.

San Francisco, January 28. Mr Gillet, Governor of California, in a special message, warns the Californian legislature against any anti-Japanese legislation.

Yielding to Mr Gillett's appeal, the proposed anti-Japanese legislation has been postponed, with a view to modification. Bo th sides of the two Houses have requested the recall of the Japanese ConsulGeneral at San Francisco, for asking Mr Gillett to prevent the passing of anti-Japanese laws.