GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 376, 29 April 1910, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

111SE OF WAUES. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Received April 28, 11.25 p.m. New York, April 28. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company have increased their employees' wages 'by £50,000, a G .per cent advance. VENEZUELA. Received April 28, 11.25 p.m. Caracas, April 2S. • Gomez has been elected President of Venezuela. All political prisoners have been amnested. CHANGSHA QUIET. Received April 28. 11.25 p.m. Pekin, April 28. Official reports state that Ohangsha is quiet.

WAGES REDUCED. Received April 28, 11.25 p.m. ondon. April 28. The Federated 'Master Cotton Spinners' Association of Lancashire have resolved to secure a 5 per cent, reduction on wages. Thereafter they will be willing to negotiate in the matter of a sliding scale. The projected reduction represents £IO,OOO a week, and 15,000 operatives are affected.

NEW QUEENSLAND SETTLERS. Received April 28, 11.45 p.m. London, Aipril 2S. Emigrants to the number of 21(10 left for Queensland during the last four months. Sixty per cent, were assisted, and all are agriculturists, many naving considerable sums of money. THE LATE M. BJORNSON. Christiana, April 27. The Storthing will accord the laie, M. Bjornson a State funeral. Both Houses have passed resolutions of condolence with his widow and adjourned. The theatres in Christiana are closed. PRESENTATION TO A POLITICIAN. | Ottawa, April 27. Members of the Canadian Senate and the House presented tlie Hon. W. S. Fielding, Canadian Minister of Finance, with a purse of £24.000 (? dollars), n recognition of his services to Canada. THE PRICE OF COTTON. New York, April 27. i For cotton seed, which was previously! £.■; per ton, American oil mills are now asking £2O to £3O. SLANDER ACTION WITHDRAWN. London, April 28. Ur. Foster Fraser's action for slander against Mr. Ramsay Mac Donald, M.P., has been abandoned, upon .Mr. MacDonald withdrawing the statement he made at a public meeting. COMPULSORY MILITARY SERVICE. Capetown, April 28. Mr. Dean, the Defence "Minister of Natal, advocates compulsory military service. THE AUSTRIAN DREADNOUGHTS. London. Anril 28. Mr. MeKe-mn. Cloaking in the House of Commons. stafrrl that the Government. had no official information that Germany had a creed upon certain contingents to purchase Austria's Dreadnoughts. AN OVERDUE VESSEL. Capetown. Apiil 91. The Carpentaria, is overdue from Natal.