GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 September 1916, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

THE SYDNEY FIRES. Australian-N.Z. Cable Association. Sydney, September IS. The flovernment is offering £250 and the insurance companies £250 as rewards for information leading to the conviction of persons responsible for the recent fires. MR. GILRUTH'S ACCUSER TO RESIGN. Melbourne, 'September 15. Br. Jensen, flovernment Geologist in the Northern Territory, who preferred charges against Dr. Gilruth >•" been asked to resign., ' • WIRELESS OPERATORS' STRIKE. : Sydney, September 15.. The wireless operators on merchantmen registered in Australasia have struck, owing to the .refusal of interStato shipowners to recognise their claims to higher pay. Passenger steamers departing are deprived of wireless communication.. CHURCHES" AGAINST RACING. ; Perth, September 10. A deputation representing the churches asked the Premier to restrict race meetings and abolish bookmakers. The I'nmier said he had sympathy with the desire to abolish bookmakers, and would lay the matter before the Cabinet; EARLY CLOSING. Melbourne, September lfi. The House and Assembly passed the Sis O'clock Closing Bill. A BOMBING ACCIDENT. J Sydney, September 10. During bombing practice at Bathurst Cam)) a spark ignited a barrel of gunpowder, injuring six men. AN AMERICAN "sCANDATj, New York, September 15. Thomas Sambrick was to I:stc been electrocuted at Sing Sing to-day for murdering a policeman, tint \va* reprieved owing to new evidence. This is the fourth case of new testimony within two months of men convicted of murScr in New York who are probably innocent men. A farm hand named Stieclow was similarly reprieved on the eve of his electrocution last month. Of two other convicts undergoing 20-years sentences for murder one has been given a new trial and .the other unquestionably will be given a new trial on the evidence furnished to.-' day by men arrested who swear they committed the crime.

A strong feeling is developing that reform of the Public Prosecutor's method of conducting capital trials is needed.

BRITISH COLUMBIA. ' Received Sept. 10, 5.5' p.m. Vancouver, Sept. 15. British Columbia has granted Women's suffrage. The prohibition vote, exclusive of soldiers' votes now being taken in Britain and France, was carried by a. majority of SOOO,