GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 348, 26 November 1915, Page 4

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

McVEY AND LANGFORD AGAIN.

FORMER WINS THIS TIME.

A TEN-ROUND CONTEST,

NEW IORK, November 24,

Sam Me\ ey outfought Langford in ten rounds. Langford led in only two of the ten rounds.

STOREMEN AND PACKERS STRIKE.

HUGE STORES NEGLECTED,

(Reed 9.5 a.m.)

MELBOURNE, This Dav,

Seven hundred members of the Federated Storemen and Packers’ Union have struck and large consignments of produce and goods are left on the wharves and stations. All bulk stores are closed. The strike is seriously affecting other unions.

BRITISH HELD FOR RANSOM*

BY NORTH AFRICAN TRIBES.

(Rec. 9.50 a.m.) London, Nov. 25. Sir Edward Grey, in the House’** Commons, announced that twelve su£. vivors of the British steamer Wood* ford are being held for ransom by_ North African tribes. Spain i s nero* Hating for their release.