GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 305, 19 May 1911, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES.

THE HUUDEItSFIELD DISPUTE. j By Cable.—Press Association. —Oopyrisht, ! London, May 17. The result of the ballot of lluddersfield operatives whether to strike or not will he known on the -28 th. The manufacturers' association states that it cannot, afford a fifteen per cent, advance, and declares that wages are higher in lludderslield than in any othei district. HEAVY DAMAGES. London, May 17. Ernest Mitchell, a Christmas cardseller, has heen awarded CI2OO damages and costs against the paper John Bull' for libel. A COMMAND PERFORMANCE. London, May 17. There has been a queue since noon yesterday awaiting the command performance at Drury Lane Theatre of' Lytton's '•Money" to-night. THE RECIPROCITY AGREEMENT. New York, May 17. Senator Stone announced to the Senate finances committee on the Free List Hill that he would soon press a vote on the reciprocity measure. EXCESSIVE HEAT. New York, May 17. Yesterday was the hottest day ex- 1 perienced in Chicago for 38 years, and, the excessive heat has resulted in the death of two people and the prostration \ of many others. j THE KAISER IN ENGLAND. Berlin. May 17. The press are unstinted in apprecia-j Hon of London's welcome to the Kaiser. WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY. London, May 17. At the meeting of the Eastern Ex-' tension Telegraph Company, Sir John] Walfe Barry said that the wireless' traffic at Cocos Island had been rather disappointing. Negotiations were pro-1 eeeding with the British Government for the extension of the wireless to, the company's stations at Singapore and Hong Kong. A HUGE CONFLAGRATION. Pekin, May 17. The damage by fire at Kirin is estimated at £4,000',000, which includes the value of 8387 houses, 4000 shops and 15 banks. Forty thousand are homeless as the result of the fire at Kirin.