GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 29 August 1916, Page 4

GENERAL CABLES.

ANOTHER SHIPPING DEAL Australian-N.Z. Cable Association. London, August 27. The Weekly Despatch announces that the business of the London Northern Steamship Company liae. been sold to, Pyman, Watson and Company for upt wards of £2,000,000, £OOO MEN ON STKIKC. Brisbane, August ks. .. Large meetings of the northern can 4 growers passed a resolution refusing to recognise the award granting employees increases, pledging themselves to cease harvesting until the award is abolished. The result is that 2000 men in the Mackay district are unemployed^ FEDERAL .VESSELS TO RETURN,' Melbourne, August 28, The Commonwealth has decidsd thai tho coastal companies' vessel* away) from Australia must return immediately. The companies are prohibited from selling vessels without the Minister'! permission. MIXERS' TROUBLE SETTLED,. :SH Capetown, August 27. A miners' strike at Johannesburg haS been averted, the Industrial Federation having decided not to force the wages dispute to extremes, as the present ia regarded as an inopportune time for sj goneral settlement. ARCTIC EXPEDITION WRECKEDi New York, August 27. The schooner Great Bear, carrying Bordenlau's Arctic expedition, was totally wrecked in Behring Sea on tho 10th. The crew landed on St. Island, and subsisted on the salved pro* visions till yesterday, when they werj rescued by a coastguard euttsr. SERIOUS RAILWAY XROUBLto. Received August 28, 5.15 p.m. New York, August 28. The railway presidents have rejected President Wilson's strike proposals. Tha men have also adopted an uncompromising attitude. It is considered that only action by Congress can avert a serious situation. HEAVY GALE AT SEA Received August 28, 0.40 p.m. Sydney, August 28. Tho Lindstol encountered a gale lasting thirty hours. One of the boatr was smashed, whilst the storm - carrier, away her deck cargo of 25,000 feet of timber, strained the bulwarks and damaged. the sails. HEAVY RAIN'S Received August 28, 9.40 p.tn • Sydney, August 28. Heavy rains have caused serious [foods at Orange. Stcmora, Yass and Young, The ijanmge to stock aud uuiciimery is heavy. A G'RIMINIAEi. Received August 28, O.io p.m. Sydney, August 28, (hurles Sciringe has been sentenced to three years for firing at a policemini. There was a long list of convictions against him whilst in sNew Zen land. ' w ' fi VIIi/WAYMEN'S DEMANDS. Received August 28, 8.5 p.m. ' London, August 28. Tie South Wales railway men have re» \fji 'iied their demand for an increase of 10s weekly. Failing compliance to this demand they will meet within a fortl night to decide future acti»n.