GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 7 October 1907, Page 4

GENERAL CABLES.

: STRIKES IX ENGLAND. London, October 3. Owing to the attempt? of the strikers from Clark and Co.'s works to intimidate the Fergnslie workers, Messrs Coats have closed the Ferguslie mills until protection is available. All hands will be paid in the interim. Twelve thousand workers are idle. The Board of Trade returns show that there were more industrial disputes, involving the loss of more working days in 190(1, when the boom set in, than in any of the preceding five years. Yet only 17 per cent of the workers involved in the strikes obtained increases in wages. LYNCH LAW IX PARIS. Paris, October 3. Hooligans having established a condition of terrorism in Paris, the citizens have organised a force armed with revolvers, truncheons, handcuffs and dark lanterns for the purpose of lynching the hooligan gangs. THE COAL VEND DEFENDED.

I Sydney, October 3. A gentleman prominently connected with the coal industr-y, in a letter to the Press, characterises the statements made regarding the Coal Vend as reekless and without foundation. IPe declares that for the last ten years the proprietors have been pr.iticaliy gr.ing their coal away, for the prices in most cases involved a loss. So far from acting in any tyrannical way in raising the prices now, they were only taking a step which was just to themselves and ( would admit of trading operations Showing a moderate return. He claims that the proprietors have a perfect right to appoint their own shipping agents for the handling of coal.

ATTEMPTED STREET MURDER. Melbourne, October 4. Mr Jones, General Superintendent of Railway Transportation, was shot while walking in Collins street. His condition is serious. An exporter named Thomas has been arrested on a charge of attempting to murder Mr Jones. FEDERAL MAIL CONTRACT. Melbourne, October 4. Several tenders have been received ior the new mail contract. It is understood that the tenderers include the Orient Coy., ir James Laing and ons, and the Australian Shipping Combination. . GOLF. Melbourne, October 4. Miss Wray, of Xew South Wales, won the Ladies' Golf Championship of Australia with 208 strokes. Miss Parbury was runner-up with 280 strokes. LORD BRAMPTON ILL.^ London, October 3. Lord Brampton is ill. lie is in a critical condition. AUSJRALIAX SCCUIOKS COMMISSION. London, October 3. Mr Bertram Maeivennal, the Australian sculptor, has been commissioned to execute the statutory for the new St Paul's Cross. CHURCH DISESTABLISHMEXT IX WALES. ' London, October 3. Me Lloyd-George, In an interview, said the Government would at an early date deal effectively with Church disestablishment in Wales, unless the Peers precipitated an appeal to the country r>r raised a constitutional issue. THE ENGLISH EDUCATION BILL. London, October 3. The Bishop of Manchester, speaking at the Church Congress at Yarmouth. argued that the country did not desire secular education, the vote of the Trades Union notwithstanding. DISASTROUS LAND SLIDE. Mexico, October 3. By a landslip in the Victorian quarries twenty-seven men were killed- A hundred of the workers are still buried. GERMAN NAVAL ACTIVITY. Berlin, October 3. New docks are being constructed at Wilhelmshaven. It is intended that they shall become the naval headquarters in place of Kiel.

CHARGES AOALXbX A FRI.M E. Berlin, October 3. A pamphlet, charging Prince Von Buelow with immorality, has becu traced to a powerful cliijue which is plotting for the Prince's overthrow. Prince Vou Buelow is prosecuting Heir Brand, the nominal author. AN ABSCONDER ARRESTED. Jirusaelo, October 3. Loyoou, the cashier of the Brussels Bank, who absconded alter embezzling a large sum, las been arrested here. CORRUPT J UDUES. fe Rome, October 3. A Coiniui=»ion oi Imjuiry into the methods of the Genoa Courts dealt with a series of charges of shady practices against the Judges. The result is that eight of the Judges are being relieved of their functions. They will be prosecuted in the liigu Court. (A noted lawyer recently created a sensation in au Italian Court by charging one of the Judges with bribery and corruption. Ue rciused to go on witn the case while thU Judge was sitting. Other lawyers followed his lead, and in the end the sitting of the Court had to oe ajjourued). UNITED STATES IX THE PACIFIC. New York, October 3. Washington telegrams anticipate that Pearl Harbor, Huuululu, is to become the United States' naval base for the Central Pacilie, and that Guam and Subig Bay are to become lortilicd stations. "~

A DESTRUCTIVE STORM. Sydney, October 4. A storm at Tenterlield wrecked the railway engine shed and the show pavilion, and unroofed and damaged many residences. SOUTH AUSTRALIAN FRANCHISE BILL. Adelaide, October 4. The Government hat agreed to take a referendum of electors on all points in the Franchise Bill regarding which there is a dispute between the two Houses.