GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3364, 2 November 1911, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

ADVERTISING THE COMMON-

WEALTH

(United Press Association —Copyright.)

LONDON, Oct. 31. Mr Baillieu, Victorian Minister of Public Works, in a letter to the Times, says it is significant that the Federal Labor Government had spent more than any previous Government in advertising the Commonwealth for British emigrants. The trade unions seemed to recognise they were no longer justified in opposition to a vigorous emigration policy. If Australia made assisted emigration general, it would soon equal Canada. ELECTION) LIBELS. Mr O. Looher Sampson, member for Ramsay, has been awarded £IOOO damages against the Peterborough Citizen and Tants County News, a Liberal newspaper, for election libels. RAILWAY WAGES INCREASED. The London and North-Western t orupany has increased the wages and reduced the hours of men, involving an increased expenditure of £BO,OOO lyFIGHT WITH CRIMINALS. ST. PETERSBURG, Oct. 31. Criminals attempting to escape from Borsov prison at Minsck killed a wrarder, seized! his revolvers and keys, and liberated 15 prisoners. They excanged volleys with warders, two criminals and one warder being killed. The ringleaders have been put in irons. INTERESTING DIVORCE. LONDON, Oct. 31.. In. the divorce_ca.se, Faster (artist) v. Beeeham (operatic impresario), a divorce was. granted, with costs against Beecham. The cross-petition was abandoned. The hearing of the ease lasted eight days. The newspapers printed columns of the evidence daily. WALL STREET SLUMP. NEW YORK, Oct. 31. Wall Street has not recovered from the slump in the United States steel stock. There is more confidence in other stocks, Canadian Pacific shares leading. AVIATION MISHAP. Fowler, the aviator, was caught in a gale at Tucson. He crashed into the grandstand of the university athletic field. Tlhe building contained hundreds of spectators. There was a panic, and numbers were hurt, but not seriously. The machine was partially wreck, ed. Fowler was not injured. A TERRIFIC TYPHOON. The Orient steamer Mongolia has arrived at San Francisco from China, and reports liaving encountered a terrific typhoon. For three days and nights the crew had to battle hard. The vessel was deep in the water, as she was carrying 13,000 tone of freight. RAILWAY CONTROL. WASHINGTON, Oct. 31. The Supreme Court has decided that all railroad equipment shall in future be under the control of the United States Commerce Commission. The effect of the judgment gives complete control of the railways into the hands of the commission. STRUCK BLIND. OTTAWA, Oct. 31. * Captain Conger, a well-known Canadian military officer, was stricken with blindness at Winnipeg. When greeting a friend at a club he collapsed. He was aware that blindness was coming. ATTACKED WITH CHOLERA. CALCUTTA, Oct. 31. Cholera has broken out in the encampment of the Royal Scots and Lothian regiments at Benares. Eighteen cases have been reported. Five deaths have occurred in 24 hours.