GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 348, 1 December 1915, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

LOAN TO LONDON BANKS.

FACILITATING EXCHANGE,

(Reed 8.30 a.m.)

‘NEW YORK, November 30

The proposed fifty million dollar loan to eight London banks, for the purpose of facilitating exchange is over subscribed.

COMMANDEERED CANADIAN WHEAT.

HOARDING OP SPECULATORS,

(Reed 8.30 a.m.)

NEW YORK, November 30,

As much as twenty million bushels of wheat have been commandeered by the Canadian Government that was under contract to New York speculators who are holding it at elevators and preventing new grain coming in. Many holders having resold are at the expense of having to fill contracts from other supplies. NATIONAL SPORTING CLUB. SOME UNUSUAL PROCEEDINGS. (Reed 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, November 30. Willie Farrell beat Johnnie Summers on points at the National Sporting Club. Ladies were specially permitted to attend. The proceeds were in aid of blind soldiers. Pandemonium reigned in the Memorial Hall for twenty minutes when asphyxiating gas from large stink bombs that were launched. Then soldiers unceremoniously routed the speakers. JAPANESE CIVILISATION. MARKET RIGGING EXTRAORDINARY. STOCK EXCHANGE SUSPENDED.

TOKIO, November 30

The Japanese Stock Exchange suspended for three days owing to wild gambling fluctuations. An organised ring is rigging the market and spreading sensational rumours.

MISS ASQUITH’S MARRIAGE,

A BRILLIANT FUNCTION.

LONDON, November 30. The Archbishop of Canterbury officiated at Miss Violet Asquith’s marriage at St. Margaret’s. A Diplomatists, members of Cabinet, and members of both Houses of Parliament were present. The interior of the church was beautifully decorated with orange blossoms and an immense crowd ovationed the bride and her father on arriving. The King and Queen gave the bride a brooch with the Royal ciphers and Crown. THE SUFFRAGETTE CAUSE. MRS PANKHURST DENOUNCED. AUTHORITY USURPED. CALLOUS DIFFERENCE ALLEGED. LONDON, November 29. A meeting of members and recent exofficials of the Women’s Social and Political Union issued a manifesto, emphasising the necessity of safeguarding the women’s suffrage cause aganist political intrigues. The mani- , festo declares that Mrs Pankhurst, "without asking the members’ consent, has used the union’s name for political

purposes outside its objects, and-con -

.tends that an overwhelming majority, consulted, would have been in favour of keeping the union organisation alive for such national and patriotic purposes as protecting women’s and children’s interests, the preventing of the increase of infant mortality, and the assisting and organising of the women’s industrial resources for the service of the country in a time of peril. The manifesto points out that Mrs Pankhurst’s circular issued in August, 1914, advising the members to take a rest, and suspend their activities virtually means that she hais .disbanded ,the union as a national organisation. Mrs Pankhurst retained complete

control of the union funds, while the central machinery had the assistance of a salaried staff in pursuing various activities without the consent of approval of the unions, consisting of a multitude of trained and voluntary

workers and speakers throughout the country. This, declares the manifesto, explains the small scale of her operations compared with the magnitude of the unions’ pre-war power. She usurped authority to excel members, including- almost all those who possessed influence, capacity, and independence. and had shown a callous indilferencj| to those devoted women, many of whom, but for individual help, would novy be completely destitute. Mrs Christabel Pankhurst should resign, or clearly explain her absence from the country at a time when the services c? all women of capacity and goodwill were sorely needed, adds the manifesto.