VARIOUS CABLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10465, 1 November 1911, Page 3

VARIOUS CABLES.

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KING EDWARD MEMORIALS

(Received October 31, 8.5 a.m.)

LONDON, October 30.

The King and Queen and other Royalties attended the dedication of the King Edward memorial window, representing the Lord reigning in glory at Sandringham Church. The cost of the window was subscribed by Royalties, residents and workers on the Sandringham estate. The Countess of Lonsdale opened the King Edward memorial wing at Cumberland Infirmary, Carlisle,' costing £30,000.

CATHOLIC CHURCH

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LONDON, October 30

New ecclesiastical Roman Catholic provinces have been created at Birmingham and Liverpool, where bishops have been promoted to archbishops. Archbishop Bourne will retain precedence in England and Wales.

BOXING IN THE NAVY

(Received October 31, 8.5 a.m.)

LONDON, October 30. The Admiralty has prohibited sailors boxing for remuneration. This does not affect the usual competitions in the Navy.

"INDUSTRIAL TERRORISM."

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LONDON, October 30

The Congress of the National Free Labour Association, representing about 800,000 workmen, lias opened in London.

It was resolved: "That in. view of the many violences! during' the recent strike it ia essential to. repeal the Trades Disputes Act, which the Trades Union pickets regard as an excuse for industrial terrorism."

\ Questioned regarding the Employers Parliamentary Council's memorial protesting against the tyranny of picketing, Mr Asquith said the Government was considering the matter. The law was not inadequate to stop intimidation, but the difficulty was due to the impossibility of procuring evidence.

AUSTRALIAN LABOUR UNIONS

DECIDE TO AMALGAMATE

(Received October 31,10.20 a.m.)

MELBOURNE, October 31

At a conference, the various Labourers' Unions throughout the Commonwealth decided to amalgamate, and will start with a membership e.f 25,000. The Union will have a uniform ticket at 10s a year.

MOUNT LYELL STRIKE,

(Received October 31, 10.20 a.m.)

MELBOURNE, October 31

The Mount Lyell strike is still on. The Company demand that the men shall return'to work unconditionally; if they do this the' Company will grant a conference. " The men decline to return until the question of White's' re-instatement is disposed of satisfactorily. 1

A LAUDABLE. EM)EAVOUR

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MELBOURNE, October 31. The Trades Hall Council discussed a letter from Mr Morris, secretary of the Waterside Workers' Federation, requesting'their support in an endeavour to persuade the men to return to work. He stated that the agreement was honourably entered into', and was broken without provocation or notice.

The discussion has been adjourned. *

The Melbourne wharf labourers condemn the action of the strikers in Sydney.-

THE RAILWAYMEN'S AGITATION,

FIGHT JUST BEGINNING

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LONDON, October 30. Sir J. A. Bellamy, speaking at Glasgow, declared that the railwaymen's /agitation was j ust beginning, and would be no twenty-four hours job next time.

He was going to fight for direct and collective bargaining. The railway nlen at Leeds, Chester, Northampton, Burton-on-Trent, Cardiff and Swansea are repudiating the Commission's findings. A railwayman's meeting at Swansea demanded the resignation of Mr Williams; the General' Secretary, as a member of the Industrial Council.

Mr Thomas, organising secretary of the Western District, at a meeting at Crewe, denied that the men's representatives were pleged to accept the findings of the Commission. His advice to the managers would be to discuss the report with the men's representatives and eliminate the bad and J adopt the good, and thus prevent a disastrous strike.

Mr Ramsay Macdonald, at Chester, said unless the grievances were', properly discussed the public must be prepared ;fQr the consequences—viz, a paralysed railway service. •

; CHRISTIAN UNITY.

(Kecflfved October 31, 8.5 a.m.)

LONDON, October 30. The Archbishop of Canterbury, speaking at fit. Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh, commended the efforts tliat were being made after Christian amity.

The efforts were struggling spontaneously and independently into actual life, the centres being so far apart as Melbourne, Toronto, Shang-

Lai, New York, Edinburgh. They began to see the dawning of the diay when an effort would finally be made to emphasise things whereon Christians are agreed. It was a distinct change towards an understanding with God, but there must be no attempt to rush what could only come by growth.

(Received October 31, 10.20 a.m.)

NEW YORK, Octoebr 30. Temple Abernethy, aged eleven, and his brother, aged seven, have completed a ride across the United States.

abates. They started from Ooney Island on August Ist, and have now won a purse of 10,000 dollars.

LYNCH LAW

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NEW YORK, Octoebr 30,

At August, in Georgia, David Walker, a Negro, assassinated a local citizen, and the mob overpowered the baliff, secured the Negro, and hanged ■him in the public square.

ACQUITTED

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LONDON, October 30

Ethel Bingham has been acquitte:! of a charge of poisoning her brother, who was keeper of Lancaster Castle.

FATAL LAND SLIDE

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TANGIER, October 30

A landslide at Sarf u buried eighteen French infantrymen who were working in a quarry. Sixteen, were killed.

PERSIAN UNREST.

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TEHERAN, October 30. The Indian troops have disembarked at Bushire unopposed.

OBITUARY.

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NEW YORK, October 30.

Mr Joseph.' Pulitzer, proprietor of .the New York "World" died aboard his yacht.

THE SYDNEY STRIKE

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SIDNEY, October- 31. Business people express great- disisatisfaction at the apparent inability of the Government to cope with the situation resulting from the strike. They declare that the Arbitration Act is a dead letter.

Mr Carmichael is disappointed at the non-acceptance of his offer to do the stevedoring.

He states that he understood that the parties that waited on the Government were anxious to prevent loss to the producers and the country, but he was apparently mistaken.

AUSTRALIAN POPULATION.

(Received October 31, 9.30 a.m.)

MELBOURNE, October 31

, The oensu' returns show* that the population of New South Wales is 1,646,734, the Federal capital, 1714, Victoria 1,315,551, Queensland 605,813, South Australia 468,558, Western Australia 282,114, Tasmania M{1,211, Northern Territory 3310.

The aboriginal population of Austral : s 19.935).

A REMARKABLE RIDE.