GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 177, 5 November 1910, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

COMPENSATION FOR A BOYCOTT,

By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Received 4, 10.10 p.m. London, November 4. The Gladstone League presented a gardener named Walter, emigrating to Westralia, with fifty guineas as compensation for alleged boycotting owing to politics. EX-SULTAN SERIOUSLY ILL. Received 4, 11.25 p.m. Salonika, November 4. Abdul Hamid is seriously ill. He only takes liquid nourishment, is almost entire'.y deaf, and moves with difficulty. BOILERMAKERS' STRIKE. Received 4, 11.25 p.m: London, October 3. At meetings at Hartlepool and Glasgow the boilermakers, by a large majority, resolved to reject the amended agreement, on the ground that it does not differ materially from that previously balloted for. ENORMOUS PROFITS. Received 4, 0 p.m. London, November 4. The report of Messrs J. and P. Coates, spinners, of Paisley, shows a profit of £3,171,000, and declared a dividend of 35 per cent. THE VETO CONFERENCE. Received 4, 9.30 p.m. London, November 4. The Veto Conference was continued yesterday. MURDERER BURNED AT THE STAKE. Received 4, 11.25 p.m. New York, November 4. A Mexican who confessed to murdering a woman was burned at the stake by a mob at Rbckspring, Texas. THE CHICAGO STRIKE. Received 4, 11.25 p.m. New York, October 4. The Chicago garment-workers' strike is likely to extend to other cities. Some women strikers were arrested for picketting, and the slight disturbance was quelled. LOS ANGELES OUTRAGE. Received 5, 12.30 a.m. New York, November 4. It is suspected at Los Angeles that the dynamitards, who escaped to Mexico, will prove to be bank embezzlers. Their extradition is demanded. A PRINTER PERISHES. Received 4, 11.25 p.m. New York, November 4. The newspaper Macon Telegraph building at Georgia was destroyed by fire, and a printer perished in the fire. There were many narrow escapes. The paper published as usual this morning, the staff having been transferred to the Evening News Office. FIRE IN PITTSBURG. Received 4, 11.25 p.m. New York, November 4. A fire in the warehouse district of Pittsburg caused great damage, but no lives were lost. DUTCH DESERTERS. Received 4, 10.10 p.m. Adelaide, November 4. It is estimated that the Dutch fleet left behind here 150 deserters. TELEGRAPHS INTERRUPTED. Received 4, 10.10 p.m. Sydney, November 4. A thunderstorm is greatly interrupting telegraph communication in the Southern States.