GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 348, 29 November 1915, Page 4

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

BIG STRIKE IN ADELAIDE. GOVERNMENT IRONWORKERSOUT. MEN’S DEMANDS REFUSED..

ADELAIDE, November 27

The iron trades section of the Government workshops, numbering a thousand men, have struck for a shilling a day increase. The Minister for PublicWorks stated that when times were better the Government would bo pleased to consider the demand, but at present they would not give way. If the men persisted, arrangements woul.i be made to c'arry on the work of the State, and other men were at their disposal.

WOOL SALES SUSPENDED.

MELBOURNE, November

As a result of the storemen’s strike a number of wool-ships have-been held up. The wool sales at Melbourne and Geelong have consequently been suspended.

NEWFOUNDLAND RUNS DRY.

A PLEBISCITE MAJORITY,

ST. JOHN’S, Nov. 26

With the return of the St. Barbe district received, the reports are complete of eighteen of the electoral districts of Newfoundland on the prohibition plebiscite. St. Barbe registered 1,069 for prohibition and 43 T against. This offsets the majority registered against prohibition in the other districts, The measure is carried by 404 votes.

DESTRUCTIVE HURRICANE

ARKANSAS STATE VISITED

NEW YORK. Nov. 26

Twelve persons were killed and thirty injured, some fatally, by a hurricane which swept the farming district of Littleock, Arkansas. Much damage was clone. Relief expeditions were organised, and worked till* darkness forced them to stop.

LATE KEIR HARDIE’S SEAT.

LABOUR DISCORD

LONDON, Nov. 26.

The Labqur Party will contest theMerthyr Tydvil seat, rendered vacant by the death of Mr. ,T. Keir Hardie. Mr. Stanton has resigned the leadership of. the miners, as he disapprovesof the views of the local Independent Labour Party. Mr. Stanton declared' that, though a Socialist, he was a Britisher first. He has decided to oppose Mr. Winstone, the Independent: Labour Party’s selected candidate. THE BY-ELECTION. STANTON WINS THE SEAT.. LONDON, Nov. 26; At the Merthyr by-election Stanton was ejected by 10,286 votes. Win.stone got 6,080. A SHIRKER’S CONVENTION. MEN OP RECRUITABLE AGE. (Reed. 8.35 a.tn.) LONDON, iNov. 28 At the Convention, the No-Conscrip-tion Fellowship the audience was chiefly of a recruitable age. Mr Clifford Allen presided and Messrs Thomas, Trevelyan, Ramsay MacDonald and Snowden, M’s P., wrote opposing conscription. A resolution against conscription -was unanimpusly carried. WHEAT AFLOAT. FOR UNITED KINGDOM.

(Reed. 8.35 a.m.) LONDON, INov. 28

Wheat prices are for Australia.!, officially, sixpence dearer. The wheat an if flour afloat for the United Kingdom is 1,890,000 quarters, with a contingent of 2,480,000 quarters. Atlantic shipments are 807,000; Pacific, 86,000. The total from Europe is 1.120,00 t, including Russia, 20,000. WESTRALIAN WAR FUNDS. PASS UNDER STATE CONTROL, PERTH, Nov. 27. The State Assembly has passed all stages of the bill giving the State War Council authority to regulate and control the raising of funds for war objects, and enabling it to spend tho money on recruiting campaigns. shorteningThotel hours. /LONDON, November 28. (Reed. 9.20 a.m.) < Alhtough intoxicants aie saleable i only between neon and 2.30 and- between 0.30 and 0 30 on week-days, in London, except at Woolwich. Greenwich. Bis’ov, Hartford and Frith!, . whore the closing is half-an-hcur earlier, public houses are open all day I long for the sale of non-intoxicants. ■