GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 87, 1 April 1908, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

A SPIRITUALISTIC FRAUD. Paris. March 3". Marie l'artoy was sentenced to six years' imprisonment at Paris for extorting from her sick mistress, Baroness Duteil, many sum-, totalling £IO,OOO. She pretended that she w;is acting under injunction-, contained in messages from the spirit world.

REDUCTION OF WAGES. London, March 30. The Conciliation and Arbilraiion Board of the Scottish iron tr.uic livors a reduction of wages by 7 1 /, per cent.

RAILWAY Ll/GGAGK THIEVES. London. March :!0. As tlit' outcome of investigations into tlie recent extensive robberies on the London and North-Westem Railway, Uenrv Sice, clerk in tin- London and North-Westem Railway pari-.-ls office was sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment for theft. Others were remanded.

•DOll'lXG'' mil's. London. March 3(1. A great meeting of the hop-pickers of Canterbury demanded the protection of a tariff, and protested against America's practice of dumping hups in England.

CANADA'S AIIEN RESTRICTION. Ottawa, March 30. Mr. Justice Clements' recent decision that the regulation of the British Columbian Government relating to Asiatic immigration wis unconstitutional, was Jue to an error made in the original order pa-seel by the (inadian Government. ThU order has been amended ati eordingly.