GENERAL CABLE NEWS

Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3426, 18 January 1912, Page 6

GENERAL CABLE NEWS

[united tress association —copyright] LONDON, Jan. 16. Messrs McKenna, Pease, Hobhouse. Selley, Lambert, St. Roger, Granard, and 'Sir C. Herschell also appear on the platform to protest against women's suffrage on the 28th February. Mr F. Smith, writing to the Times, states that votes for women would be a national calamity of the first magnitude. A referendum was desirable to help a section of the Liberals, who were prepared to face the difficulty. The Ministry was not inconsistent in advocating a referendum, as it was not a party measure. The Unionist Club movement in Ulster has a. membership of over 209.009, with 150,000 in 1890. The Agents-Genernl have secured ten thousand berths for emigrants during 1912. in addition to those referred to in a cable of December 14. New SouM Wales has secured -all likely requirements with ample room for contingencies. The Boy Scouts’ Association has received a royal charter. The standing committee of the Ulster Unionist Council has resolved. on stress, to prevent Mr Churchill's Home Rum meeting at Belfast. Petrol tramoars has been: inaugurated at Murecambe. The cost of fuel is a pennv per m.'w PARES, Jan. 10. At M. Briand's instance President Fallieres has pardoned T.a C-our, a Royalist workman, who assaulted M. Briand (then Premier) in 1910, during a statue unveiling ceremony. CONSTANTINOPLE, Jan. 16. The Sultan has dissolved the Chamber c-f Deputies on condition that the elections will be held to enable it to reassemble within three months. NEW YORK, Jan. 16. All indictments against Detective Burns and other parties implicated in the alleged kidnapping of the MacNamaras have been dismissed.