GENERAL CABLES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 195, 22 September 1909, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

THE CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright Ottawa, September 20. The Canadian Department of labor reports that the contractors for the mountain section of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway (which is being bui't •with Government aid) are paying reasonable wages of from 2% to 3 dollars per day. The Department dissents from the men's contention that tV contractors must accept good bad or indifferent workmen, as labor ie scare*

A POET'S- SUICIDE. -n, , , , Lon(l °n, September 20. Ilie body of Mr. John Davidson, poet who had been missing from his home ?n Penzance since March last, has been recovered off Mousehole, near Penzance. [Deceased left a document saying that he was unable to stand the dreaded (lisease cancer, fro m which he was suffering.]

POOR RELIEF IN ENGLAND. London, September 21. There were 950,848 persons in receipt of poor relief in Jannarv, an in.increase of 3VL- per cent, over "January, 'JUS. flhe increase is found to exist •mainly in Durham North Riding and Cumberland, where there is a 20.30 oer cent, increase. v

A COMPENSATION OFFER. New York, September 21 Uruguay has offered the crew of th« Halifax sealer Agnes Donahue £3OOO as compensation for imprisonment fo.alleged illegal scaling.

VIOEENT SUFFRAGETTES. aw » *' on «°n, Septcmlior 20. 'J'J**"" «» Birmingham w re sensed to a month's imprisonment vi„,„ ° Wm f g ,f olles nnd «»Mhing to windows of the train i u w | lich s !,; Asqmft. fth Minister, retu^'o