GENERAL CABLES

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 173, 26 March 1915, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

LABOUR TROUBLES. AWARD DISPLEASES CLYDE MEN. Press Association —Copyright. (Reed. 11.5 p.m.) LONDON, March 25. Clyde engineers are disappointed at the award. EMPIRE DAY. (Reed. 11.5 p.m.) LONDON, March 25. An Empire Day .service will be held in St. Paul's on June 12th. THE WELSH CHURCH TROUBLE. AMERICAN STEAMER SUNK. RETURNING PROM GERMANY. NEW YORK, March 24. Tiie American .steamer "Denvel-," rieUirning from Bremerhaven, sunk in mid-ocean. The Atlantic transport iiner Manhattan rescued seventy-one of the crew." SCATHING WORDS BY LLOYD GEORGE. A GREAT PATRIOT'S ADVICE. (Reed. 12.30 a.m.) LONDON, March 25. Mir Lloyd George, writing to a prominent advocate oi ! Disestablishment, asks: "Will nothing but disaster teach us not to manufacture quarrels over matters cf secondary concern whilst the fate of freedom is being settled on the battlefield?" He hopes the leaders of Welsh opinion will not prove themselves very small men in a very bigsituation. DRINK AND WAR CONTRACTS. SEVERAL WORKMEN PINED. LONDON, March 25. The magistrates have awrirded employers 60s each against several workmen in various parts of the country for engaging in drinking bouts and not doing work en war contracts. MYSTERIOUS EXPLOSIONS. LONDON, March 25. The Eastbourne explosion is unexplained. (It was yesterday stated that coast (owns were alarmed by big explosions) MARCONI'S AUSTRALIAN AGENT. DAMAGES FOR WRONGFUL DISMISSAL. LONDON, March 25. J. Hamilton, formerly Marconi's regent in Australasia, was awarded £2,640 in the King's Bench for wrongful dismissal. THE IMPERIAL TIE. RELATIONS OF MOTHERLAND AND DOMINIONS. (Reed. 8.5 p.m.) LONDON, March 25. Milner, when presiding at the Colonial Institute, on the occasion of Dr Horsfall's paper on Australia's stake in the war, said it was incalculably important that the first occasion on which there was complete sympathy between the Motherland and the Dominions. The latter recognised that victory would mean everything to them. They were liable to be involved in a most momentous expedience without the slightest voice in the policy leading thereto. This was fundamentally unsound, and in the long run impossible. We should, when peace was fyeing ndgotia/ted/, 'negotiate the fullest knowledge of their viaws and in full sympathy with their viewpoint. Lord Milner said overseas kinsmen might not bo parties to the peace negotiations formally, but ought to be virtually, and should be consulted discreetly and timeously. The acknowlegdment of that rifeht might cbviate misunderstandings and be a great step towards a perfect and permanent partnership. -