GENERAL CABLES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 192, 23 November 1910, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

A MANSION DESTROYED,

By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Received 22. 6.40 p.m. London, November 21. Earl Sondes' mansion at Faversham was burned, causing damage amounting to £45,000. WOOLLEN OPERATIVES' DEMANDS. Received 22, G. 40 p.m. London, November 21. The Huddersfield and Colne Valley operatives demand an advance of 15 per cent, in wages of all classes of operatives at the looms, a uniform basis of wages, and a 55-hours' week. A similar agitation is reported in other woollen districts.

FAILURE OF A BANK. Received 22, G. 40 p.m. London, November 21.. The receiver estimates the Charing Cross Bank liabilities at three millions. BIG HARBOR SCHEME. Received 23, 1.15 a.m. Berlin, November 22. Ten million sterling is to be spent in tile next four years in improving the port of Hamburg. AMERICAN LABOR FEDERATION. Received 22, 10.30 p.m. New York, November The American Federation of Labor refused (o adopt a resolution centralising in its own officials the power of declaring a general strike. A resolution demanding did age pensions was defeated. A eam|ini»n tu include women office workers and stenographers as trades unionists was projected, and a forty-eight hours week for postal employees.was demanded.