GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 309, 6 January 1908, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

ARMY RE-ORGANISATION. London, January 3. Mr Will Thorn, M.P., has declined an invitation to join the Earl of Warwick, the Lord Lieutenant, to form the Essex Army Committee, on the ground that he considers the new Army Act a disguised form of compulsory service. 'BUSMEN ON STRIKE. London, January 3. A thousand motor 'busmen have struck owjhg to the employers desiring to pay wages on the basis of the number of journeys instead of by the day. PARLIAMENTARY RESIGNATION. London, January 3. Mr W. A. McArthur, M.P., a partner in the firm of W. and A. McArthur and Co., which had recently to be reorganised on account of huge losses, has resigned from Parliament. A BELLICOSE COUNT. Paris, January 3. Outside a fashionable Parisian church Count Boni Castellan! attacked Prince de Sagan, knocking him in the gutter. He continued kicking and trampling him until they were separated. The apparent cause of the attack was that Sagan was about to marry Anna Gould, the Count's late wife. "Both had been attending a requiem mass at the church. HIGH-SPEED MOTOR. New York, January 3. A sixty-horse power Napier motor on the Brooklamls courne attained a speed of 85 miles an hour. A tyre then burst and the motor jumped the em-' bankment. Fron, the driver, was severely shaken.