GENERAL CABLES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 450, 9 February 1909, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

San FRANcisco, February 5.

The Californian Assembly rejected a Bill prohibiting aliens from being members of a corporation, also a Bill requiring the segregation of Japanese from whites, but agreed to a Bill excluding Japanese from the schools.

President Roosevelt telegraphed to Mr J. N. Gillet (Governor of California, who possesses the power of veto): “This is the most offensive Bill of all. It is clearly unconstitutional, and we should be compelled to test it.” London, February 5.

The Home Secretary, Mr Herbert Gladstone, states that the Government intended to compensate the relatives of the victims of the outrage at Tottenham (where two Russians started out lately on a robbery and murder expedition, killing a policeman and a boy). During the past three years, the tribunals, he says, recommended him to expel 947 aliens, and orders were made in 9x3 cases. New York, February 6.

The Canadian redskin T. Longboat (who beat Dorando) defeated the ex-amateur A. H. Shrubb over the Marathon distance at Madison Square track, New York. Shrubb collapsed in the 25th mile. [The Marathon race as run at the Olympic Games was 26 miles 385 yards. Longboat, in 1907, ran 25 miles in 2 hours 24 minutes 20 4-5 seconds.- Shrubb has covered 11 miles in 56 minutee 23 3-5 seconds,]