GENERAL CABLES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 197, 29 November 1910, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

BOXING. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. New York, November 27. Moran, at San Francisco, knocked oui N«lson in the eleventh round of a twen-ty-round fight. STRIKER SENTENCED TO DEATH. Paris ,November 27. As a sequel to the railway strike, four men have been sentenced at Rouen for murdering a blackleg, one to death, and the others to from eight to fifteen years' penal servitude. THE CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP. Berlin, November 27. In the chess championship Lasker has won four games and drawn three, and Janowski has not won a game. A GAMBLING RAID. New York, November 27. Seventy-nine arrests were made in a New York club during a gambling raid. WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE IN AMERICA. New York, November 27. The American (Federation of Labor unanimously endorsed the principle of women's suffrage. ROUGH JUSTICE. New York, November 27. A man named Richard Fowl was found 1 in a woman's bedroom at Mayo, Florida, and lynched by the townspeople.

THE PIONEERS OF CANADA. Ottawa, November 27. Mr. M'Claren, an American editor, speaking at Ottawa, favored the reduction of the status of the provinces ol Canada' so as to make a real nation, not a collection of semi-sovereign States. A VALUABLE TAPESTRY. London, November 27. The missing panel in the series of Arras tapestries, "The Seven Deadly Sins," lost from Hampton Court and recently discovered in a Cornwall mansion, has been sold by auction for £6600. It ds now known that it was sold by auction in Cornwall in 1808 for £2. THE BOILERMAKERS' LOCKOUT. London, November 27. Mr. Askwith presided at a conference of Board # of Trade officials and boilermakers at which a proposal was formulated to submit to the masters. SHIPPING INDUSTRY. London, November 27. Presiding at the annual meeting of Richardsons, Westgarth and Co., Ltd., Lord Furness, chairman, said that unless the men co-operated in maintaining industries the want of employment would increase. The policy of taking the maximum of work at any price for the' sole purpose of contributing to working expenses would bring the shipping industry into commercial disrepute. ' What was wanted on the northeast coast was the creation of a united constructive policy at as large a saving as possible. He was aghast at the aggressive continuance of the present system. A FRENCH DIFFICULTY. Paris, November 27. After promising to suspend the duty' on maize for a year for the purpose of feeding cattle and pigs in view of the failure of the potato crop, the Government re-examined the question and declined, owing to the impossibility of preventing the employment of maize for distillation and the manufacture of starch.