GENERAL CABLE NEWS

Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3414, 4 January 1912, Page 6

GENERAL CABLE NEWS

MERCANTILE MARINE HOURS. [UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT] LONDON, January 2. Tom Mann, in a speech in London, said the time had com© to demand’ a reduction of hours' in the mercantile marine, which was only obtainable at ports. The transport workers were already organising for the purpose. RAILWAY WAGES. The arbitrator has awarded the railway workshop laborers at Harwich a minimum wage of £l, and those earning more an additional shilling. AGAINST HOME RULE. Forty meetings' against Home Rule have been arranged in Lancashire for January 22 and l 23, .the speakers including Mr J. Chamberlain, Sir Robert Finlay, Sir E. H. Carson, Mr F. E. Smith, Mr Walter Long, ancl Sir James Doughty. A DEFAULTING REPUBLIC. The Republic of Nicaragua has defaulted with the payment of interest. The Government is arranging with the American bankers for a new loan. BLOODHOUNDS FOR INDIAA sfupply of bloodhounds is being despatched to India to assist the Northwest frontier policel to track border raiders. CATTLE TICK. Fresh discoveries of cattle tick have been made in the Tweed district. POST OFFICE ROBBED. NEW YORK. January 2. At St. Louis Mrs Callahan, armed with a revolver, stood guard outside a post office, while two male accomplices robbed the building. Tie robbers secured only non-negotiable bonds to the value of £2OOO- All were arrested later. INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION. PARIS. January 2. The President, at a New Year reception given, to the diplomatic corps, endorsed the tribute of Sir F. Bertie (British Ambassador) to President Taft’s valued effort to extend the- scope of international arbitration. DELHI’S BULLION AND MAILS SAVEDTANGIER, January 2. The steamer Delhi’s [bullion,. specie, and parcel post have been entirely recovered. OBITUARY. LONDON, Jan. 2. Dr. Oswald Dykes is dead. [The late Rev. James Oswald Dyke’s, M.A., D.D., waes born at Port Glasgow in 1835. He was minister of Regent Square Church, London, from 1869 to 1888 and principal and Barbour Professor of Divinity in the Theological College of the Presbyterian Church of England until 1907. He was the author of various well-known publications.]