GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 15 June 1907, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

N.S.W. AND THE NAVAL AGREEMENT. Received loth, 0.44 a.m. Sydney, June 14. Mr Ewing, in reply to Mr Carruthers says there is nothing to prevent New South Wales doing what it likes with iis own money in regard to the naval agreement. London, June 13. Owing to the introduction o{ a premium bonus system at Vickcrs, Son| and Maxim's works at Erith, nearly 2000 men have struck. ' Mr E- B. Winans, an American exhibitor, has taken three championships and 24 first prizes at the Great International Horse Show at Olympia. In the second innings Dennct took 7 wickets for 12- (In the. first innings of the match against Northampton, Dennett, for Gloucester, took eight wickets for U runs, Northampton's irotal being "Brookes (Australia) and Mrs lTitlyard won the Mixed Doubles Championship, beating Casdagli and Mrs Sterry bv two sets to love.

"The Earl of Dundonald, in an interview given to the Daily Mail, states that he retired from the Army owing to the authorities not offering him employment since he was turned out of the Canadian militia for calling attention to political competition iu the appointment of officers. Lord Dundonald served in Egypt, was with Kitchener at Khartoum, and did excellent work during the Boer war. He commanded the Canadian Militia from 1902 to 1904, where his outspokenness caused liis dis. missal, much to the regret of the general public. There is indignation amongst Welsh members at Sir H. Campbell - Bannerman's declaration that there will le no Welsh Disestablishment Bill in 1908. The Hand miners have asked Mr Jtamsay Mac Donald, M.P., and the l>aborites to assist the strikers with funds, or secure the withdrawal of troops, en the' ground that without soldiers the mine-owners would be unable to achieve their aims, as the employment of volunteers would lead to civil war, becaasc many side with the striken. Paris, Jnnc 13. Eight municipal bodies have resigned. M. Clemcnceau holds that the resignations, requiring a month's notice, arc irregular, and that .the municip:il authorities are personally liable for damages fur the consequence of any stoppage. New York. June A steamer collide,l with a liuneli belonging to the I'.S. battleship Minnesota in Hampton ltoads at night- Six midshipmen and ii\'e sailors were drowned. Calcutta, June 13. Several prominent advocates of boycot and sedition have been arrested here. Sydney. June 14. Mr Carruthers, N.S.W. Premier, speaking at a mayoral dinner, denied that tiie Naval Agreement was unpopn- . lar in New South Wales. l{ they were free front federation they would do twice as much for the continuance of ■the protection the present agreement conferred.

A party of coal lumpers attacked free laborers at Blaekwater Bay. Revolver shots were exchanged, but no one was hurt. .Several arrests were made.