GENERAL CABLES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 195, 26 November 1910, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

AN ALLEGED BOYCOTT. 3y Cable —Press Association—Copyright. Berlin, November 24. The British Federation of Trade Unions has arranged with the German j Federation not to supply British labor deputations with information unless! tliey are franked with an introduction! from the British Federation. The object is to frustrate visits of tariff reformers, PRETTY PISTOL PRACTICE. New York, November 24. William Griffiths, saloon-keeper at Newcastle, Colorado, enraged at a conviction for assault, shot two men with a revolver in the streets, and fired at random at the crowd, wounding several. He took refuge in and barricaded a room of his shop, holding the sheriff's posse at bay, ERASED FROM THE REGISTER. London, November 24. The Medical Council has erased from the register James Dalziel, of Auckland, for professional misconduct. , FOREIGN MISSIONS. London, November 24. Mr. Henry Wallace, of Liverpool, has given £IO,OOO to the Presbyterian Foreign Mission, in memory of his father. MISS LE NEVE. London, November 24. Miss Le Neve has sailed for America. THE COST OF A VOTE. London, November 24. A Parliamentary paper shows that candidates' expenses at the last election, including returning officers' fees, t amounted to £1,296,382, excluding uni contested elections. This gives 3s lid as the cost per vote. 5 A SERIOUS INDICTMENT. ~ Ottawa, November 24. A railway porter named Lynn, charged with having chloroformed lady passengers on the Canadian and Pacific Railway with the motive of robbery, was acquit- ,, ted at the Moosejaw assizes. " BOXING. New York, November 24. At Kansas City, Monty Attell won the 1 bantam-weight championship of the f world in ten rounds from Billy Walsh, ''> of Boston. I THE Y.M.C.A. 1 London, November 24. i The Y.M.C.A. at Manchester has built ' a new home at a cost of £48,000. They " required £20,000 to complete it, of B which £14,000 was collected in twelve B days. CHEAPER CABLES. London, November 24. Mr. Samuel, Postmaster-General, speaking at a banquet given to Mr. Henniker ! Heaton by Kentishmen, said that plain--3 word cablegrams were too expensive, but international difficulties still prevented half-rates. The. Government would not rest till.it had secured the reform. r AN INTESTATE NEW ZEALANDER. l London, November 24. i The Probate Court pronounced Charles } Philips, of Australia and New Zealand, a intestate. He died at Rowton House, Vauxhall, leaving a fortune estimated at from three to ten thousand pounds.