GENERAL CABLES.
LONDON, February 14
Doctors still certify that Caldwell, the witness in the Druce cape who is charged with perjury, is unfit to be extradited. He is suffering from fantastic hallucinations.
The adoption by the Right Hon. Sydney Buxton, Postmaster-General, of the recommendations of a committee presided over by Mr C. E. Hobhouse, Parliamentary Under-Sec-retary for India, regarding postal wages and conditions of service adds half a million to the estimates.
Fifty-five thousand working masons have petitioned the King to prevent the employment of Italian workmen in the erection of the Queen Victoria National Monument. Received February 16, 4.36 p.m. LONDON, Fehruary 15.
Mr T. A. Coghlan (Agent-General for New South Wales)and Sir Charles Dilke, M.P., have been elected members of the Committee appointed to prepare proposals for a uniform census of the Empire and suggest a better presentation of the results of the British census.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9057, 17 February 1908, Page 5
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147GENERAL CABLES. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9057, 17 February 1908, Page 5
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