GENERAL CABLES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 267, 1 April 1911, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

KING TO ATTEND MUSIC HALL. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. London, March 30. The King's decision to attend with the Queen a command music hall performance at Edinburgh, has excited much interest, at showing his approval of this popular form of entertainment. AX ABSCOXDING CASHIER. Ottawa, March 30. Mathew Edward Bywell, a cashier who absconded with funds from the Empress Hotel, Victoria, was traced to Xew Orleans, where he was discovered in employment as assistant superintendent of the Young Men's 1 Christian Association. He is" well connected in England. CARRIAGE OF MAILS. Capetown, March 30. The Assembly negatived an amendment to the Post Office Bill limiting the carriage of mails to British vessels. The Postmaster-General intimated that the Imperial post office authorities adhered to their attitude of 1889 in objecting to such restriction. LABOR TROUBLES IN ALBERTA. Ottawa, March 30. The Minister of Labor is intervening i» the threatened strike of Alberta and Britist Columbia miners, and is hopeful of preventing it. A TRAIN ROBBED. St. Petersburg, March 30. Seventeen bandits held up the Warsaw- Vienna train and stole £BOOO, with which it was intended to pay the salaries of station officials. KING EDWARD MONUMENT. Brussels, March 30. The international pacificists project erecting a monument of the late King Edward on the battlefield of Waterloo.

CLAPHAM COMMON MURDER. London, March 30. Mr Abinger, on behalf of Steiner Morrison convicted of the Clapham Common murder, has applied for a certificate enabling him to appeal to the House of Lords, The Attorney-General reserved his decision. TELEGRAPH OPERATORS' STRIKE. New York, March 30. Telegraph operators at Chicago threaten to strike on April unless their demand of 20 per cent, increase in wages is granted. IkENT EMIGRANTS. London, March 30. . The Kent Colonising Association's report states that 500 young emigrants were sent overseas in six years. A NEW PLAY. London, March 30. Newspapers favorably criticise Mr. Iladdon Chambers' comedy "The Passer By," which has been produced at Wyndhams Theatre. A STRIKE PREVENTED. London, March 30. The threatened strike of colliery engineers in Scotland, which would have thrown thousands of colliers out of work, has been adjusted through Mr G. R. Askwith, of the Board of Trade. The number of eight hour shifts has been considerably increased. AN OLD CUSTOM. London, March 30. The Prince of Wales performed his first public function by presenting the Mayor of Dartmouth with the silver car which was formerly the symbol of the corporation's rights in connection with the bailiwick of the water. A DIRECTOR PROSECUTED. London, March 30. I The public prosecutor is prosecuting I Robert Herbert Measures, formerly j managing director of Measures Bros., j iron and steel merchants, a firm which went into compulsory liquidation.