GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 7, 3 July 1911, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

j LAIiOR PAUIY'iS DUTY. By Cable.—-I'naa AsmxjintioiL—-Copyright. I London, June 3D. I All'. Ar fisher, speaking at the Women's Labor League's reception, emphasised the expediency of representative persons going round the world and talking (With tile spokesmen of the Labor movement. He hoped the British Labor Party would do something towards bringing other nations into conference for the promotion of the peace of the world and the protection of the downtrodden. BOMB KXPLOISION IN SPAIN. Madrid. June 30. A bomb (!.\J)ld(led during a Eucliaristic Congress procession in Madrid. Radicals exchanged shots with Carlists at Barcelona, where «W person was i killed and maiiy wounded. GOVERNMENT INSURANCE. > I ■ Capetown, June 30. Llie I'nion Government has decided to carry its own fire risks on public buildings and railways. Policies for £ 80,000,000 Mve therefore lapsed, though the premium quoted was less than a quarter per cent. RAILWAY ABSORPTION; |i| Ottawa, June 30. _ Conferences of officials of the Cana-dian-Paciiic and Eric railways are beheing held at Winnipeg. It is believed that they indicate thai tShe former is contemplating an agreement leading to the eventual .absorption of the Eric railway.

A TRUST INDICTMENT. New York, June 30. A Federal grand jury returned nine indictments against the associations and individuals forming the wire trust, charging them with restraint of trade. Mr. Pierpont "Morgan's son-in-law is involved in the ehargei.

THE WELSH STRIKE. London, Juno 30. The executive committee of the Miners' Federation 'of Britain rejected the South Wales miners' appeals to give financial support ' to' the Rhondda strikers.

••British Liberty." ' London, June 30. Sir John Jindlay,' at the annual meeting of the''British Association for the Advancement of Labor Legislation, declared that the freedom of the Scottish pioneers who peopled New Zealand was more than the barren negative, the thing called British liberty. Telling a man in need that he had freedom was like telling him in a waterless desert to quench his thirst New Zealand was trying to make freedom a more real thing than' it was in the Motherland. NORWICH ROYAL SHOW. London, June 30. To-day's attendance at Norwich Show was nearly double that at .the Liverpool Show last year. NEW BOATS FOR AUSTRALASIA. London, June 30. The White Star liner Zealandic, for the Australian and New Zealand serI vice, lias been launched at Belfast. | Mrs. A. Fisher launched the North Coast Shipping Co.'s new steamer Wcllongbar at the Aiisa yards, Troon. Lord Cassils, Mr. Fisher, Sir George Reid, and many Australians were present.

CHURCHES IN PORTUGAL. London, June 30. Foreign churches have 'been granted exemption from the clause in the Act placing their affairs under Portuguese Government control. BRITISH NATIONAL INSURANCE. London, June 30. .Mr. Lloyd George attended (he National Conference' of Friendly Societies, and. after two hours' crossexamination, intimated his willingness to reduce the minimum of approved societies to- .CoOOO. A STEAMER MISHAP. Ottawa, June 30. The -learner Spokane, with LiO excursionists from Seattle to Alaska, struck a rock in Plumpers' Bay, and was beached. All aboard were saved. THE LOS ANGELES OUTRAGE. , ]\' New York, June 30. A man •.believed to be David Caplan has heen arrested in London on a charge of alleged complicity in the Los Angeles dynamite outrage'. COLLAPSE OF A PUMPING STATION. New York, June 30.

At Buffalo six people were killed and thirty injured by the collapse of a pumping, station. The victims were machinists at work. A DREADFUL EXPERIENCE. New York, June 30. At Pittshurg a painter named Sackfell from a height of 250 ft. above the ground. Ifc was suspended hv a burning rope., mul with his clothes afire, descended hand under hand. lie was terribly burned. He had lighted a cigarette, and the lighted match fell into his bucket of naptha oil. EX- V fCTORIAN GOVERNOR. London, .Tune 30. Sir Thomas and Lady Gibson-Car-michael were welcomed' at Charing Cros.3.