GENERAL CABLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9030, 22 February 1908, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

Received February 21, S.B a.m NEW YORK, February2o,

President Roosevelt has written to the Inter-state Commerce Commission relative to the importance of limiting the hours of raiiway employees. The New York police declare that Hyne, recently sentenced in London to seven years' imprisonment on a charge of bigamy, is a dentist named Witzhoff, a notoroius bigamist, who swindled many women. (Hyne was arrested for defrauding at Bristol, one of a hundred women whom he is reported to have married. Later he was charged with bigamy). PARIS, February 20. A number of documents relating to charges against Lieutenant Ullmo, of selling plans to Germany, were stolen from his counsel's rooms in a Toulon hotci. A public trial of the lieutenant is proceeding. VIENNA, February 20. M. Ysaye's Stracivarius, costing £2,400, wus stolen in St. Petersburg and sold in a Moravian town for 355. The seller disapueaied. LONDON, February 20.

The Secretary of State for War, the Right Hon. R. B. Haldane, is reducing the garrison in South Africa from 16.350 to 12,000. The stealers of the Queen's miniatures received sentences ranging from twelve to twenty-three months' imprisonment. (Three miniatures of the Queen's daughters, lent by Queen Alexandra for reproduction, were, in January, stolen from the well-known studio of Hentschel, at West Norwood). Received February 21, 12.17 a.m. The "Daily Chronicle" states that Japan, relying on the secret treaty concluded with China in 1906, has vetoed China building a railway from Hsinmintun tp Fakumen, linking up Pekin with the South Manchurian line. China has acquiesced.