GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 242, 22 March 1915, Page 4

GENERAL CABLES.

APPLICATION TO CANCEL A UNION. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Sydney, March 20. In the application for the cancellation of the Australian Workers' Union, Judge Murray decided not to cancel the union, but to make an order which would be cancelled if certain alterations in the rules were carried out. He fixed the end of May for bringing up the matter.

NEW AUSTRALIAN NAVY. .. Sydney, March 20. The first sod of the Condobolin to Broken Hill railway has been turned. It is to cost £1,500,000. THE AFTERNOON SHIFT. , Sydney, March 20. Three of the afternoon shift collieries have not resumed work, the men refusing to work alongside men employed during the strike.- The whole trouble threatens to be reopened. 1 ' NEW MACHINE GUN. Melbourne, March 20. Advices have been received that the Caldwell machine-gun has been sold to a London firm for £55,000, and a royalty on all guns produced. Substantial orders are anticipated from the British Goveriiment. It is claimed that the gun is likely to displace the Maxim. The inventor is a Melbourne mechanic. NEW STEAMERS FOR AUSTRALIA. Received March. 10. 0.35 p.m. Melbourne, March ]<). ir v o, aiU, ", al ,ilp(?tin S "f the Ana. fl? PS ' LW " tlm "''airman stated that three modern 6500-ton canro steamers and 3000-tonners were building in England. The first would be. dclivoca this month.