VARIOUS CABLES

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10441, 5 October 1911, Page 5

VARIOUS CABLES

HOME RAILWAYS. CONSTERNATION AT CREWE. SEVEN HUNDRED MEN DISCHARGED. Received This Morning, 12.10 o'clock. LONDON, October 4. A consternation has been created at Crewe by the London and North Western Railway Company discharging seven hundred men, being ten per cent, of the staff. Short time had been in operation for thirty-three months. Ono of tho objects of the strike was to secure hill time. The Company explained that tJhe Crewe staff Mas too large.

THE IRISH STRIKES. NEGOTIATIONS RE-OPENED. Received This Morning, 12.10 o'clock. LONDON, October 4. The Executive of t(he Amalgamated Railwaymen at Dublin has re-opened negotiations with the companies.

WESTRALIAN ELECTIONS

A VICTORY FOR LABOUR

(Received Last Night, 11.10 o 1 clock.)

PERTH, October 4. Many of the returns are incomplete. So far those completed show that the Ministerialists lost eight seats to Labour, viz., Perth, Perth East, Fremantle, Subiaco, Canning, Swan, Geraldton and Menzies, the only metropolitan seat retained being Claremont.

T!lie Prime Minister is.safe, but the Hons. Daglish and Gregory were defeated and the Hon. J. Mitchell, Minister for Lands, was elected by a small majority.

THE TOTALISATOR

A NEW SOUTH WALES REQUEST

(Received Last Night, 11.10 o'clock.)

SYDNEY, October 4

The Hon. Mr Flowers promised a deputation, representing racing associations, to submit to Cabinet a request for the legalising of the totalisator.