GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 3720, 4 January 1913, Page 7

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

NEW YORK GARMENT WORKERS (i [UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT] NEAT YORK. Jan. 2. Ninety thousand garment workers are idle. The waiter; are threatening to join them. INTERS TO STRIKE.

LONDON, Jan. 2. Eight thousand Lancashire and Yorkshire dyers have given notice of a strike.

ANOTHER AMERICAN RAILWAY SMASH.

NEW YORK, Jan. 2. At Huntingdon, West Virginia, eight persons were killed and 15 injured through the Oh i o-Clicsapoako railway train falling through a bridge on the Guyandotte river. The victims were chiefly ironworkers engaged on bridge repair work.

TRAGIC END TO HONEYMOON. LONDON, Jan. 2. Bowley, a fireman on the North Eastern Railway, with his wife, entrained at Darlington, on the way home after their honeymoon. He killed her with a razor, and afterwards committed suicide in the same compartment. SYDNEY FILM FIRE. (Received January 3, 11.15 p.m.) SYDNEY, Jan. 8. The insurnaces on the Crystal Palace fire are: 'On the contents £36,000; on the buildings £20,000. BRISBANE TRAMWAY COAIPANY AND THE HIGGINS JUDGMENT. (Received January 4, 1.10 a.m.) MELBOURNE, Jan. 3. The High Court heard the application of the Brisbane Tramways Company for an order restraining Justice Higgins from proceeding further with the recent judgment. The company submitted that the Award was bad, as being contrary to the Queensland Industrial Peace Act, which prohibits preference. An order nisi was made, returnable before the Full High Court on February 24. THE TAXI STRIKE. (Received January 3, 10.35 p.m.) LONDON, Jan. 3. Eleven thousand men are affected by the taxi strike. The trouble 'spread to Liverpool.