GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 289, 1 December 1908, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

USE OK TRADE UNION FUNDS. London, November 29. The Court of Appeal baa unanimously decided tlmt n trades union U not empowered to levy members for the support of members of the House of Com. moii*. Th» Court refused to suspend its injunction pending an appeal to the House of Lords. THE SACIvVILLE ESTATES. London, November 29. Mr. .Inslice Eve has refused to appoint « receiver for the late Lord Sackville's estates. He expressed no opinion respecting Mr. Ernest Saekville-West'i claim to tlie estates. CHAMBERS OK COMMERCE. London, November 29. The British Chamber of Commerce at Paris, owing to the success of its Canadian section, is forming a section of Australian members.

ESTIMATE OF THE LUsS ENTAILED. Melbourne, Monday. Mr. Scott, Secretary of the Centr*l Postal Administration, estimates that the penny cable scheme would entail an annual loss of £128,730. Before th# necessary incomes from penny cables could be attained it would be necessary, he says, to create additional traffic to the extent of fifteen million words a year solely for the Pacific cable. The present yearly traffic between the United Kingdom and Australasia, by both routes is twenty-five million words.

AMERICAN POLITICS. New York, November 20. Mr. !■:. B. Hitchcock has accepted tin portfolio of Postmaster-General in Mr. Taft's Cabinet. THE POPE'S GRATITUDE. Rome, November 29. Archbishop Carr, of Melbourne, received an audience with the Pope. Hit Holiness expressed gratitude for the £2OOO, "Peter's pence," from the clergy and the faithful of Melbourne. Ho alio thanked the Bishop of Ballarat for the donation of £IOOO and the Archbishop of Hobart for Ms generous offering.

MAIL TRAIN STUCK OP. 6t. Petersburg, November 29. A band of robbers attacked the Siberian mail train on the Trans-Baikal line. After a fight with the eseort, during which three of the robbers were killed, the rest escaped with 250,000 roubles.