GENERAL CABLES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 460, 5 June 1909, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

TUBERCUBOSIS.- * , Bondon. June 3. Mr John Burns opened the Tuberculosis Exhibition in Whitechapel. It is intended to illustrate the methods of preventing disease and minimising its effects whenever it exists. Mr Burns claimed that Britain led in the crusade against tuberculosis, remarking that the direct remedies were higher wages and less drink, less gambling and more regular work. He added that open windows would stamp out consumption in one generation. A number of suffragettes were ejected from the meeting for persistently interrupting the speaker; UNHAPPY RUSSIA. St. Petersburg, June 3. Prince Kropotkin states the Russian prisons are officially capable of holding 90,000 people. They now hold 181,000. The Duma rejected a Bill abolishing capital punishment on the ground that Courts-martial can order executions outside the Duma’s competence. BRITISH POBITICS. Bondon, June 3. The House of Commons has reassembled. The fight over the Budget is likely to continue till October. The Government is arranging the closure by compartments on all other leading Bills. IN HONOUR OF PRESSMEN. Bondon, June 3. Their Majesties King Edward and Queen Alexandra will attend the Prince of Wales’ garden party at Marlborough House, given in honour of the delegates to the Press Congress. On the 7th inst., a review will be held at Spithead, which will exclusively comprise warships always fully manned; always in Home waters ; always fully provisioned as for action ; and always under war training. They will be anchored in seven lines occupying x 8 miles of sea room, and will include 24 battleships, 16 armoured cruisers, eight other cruisers, four scouts, 48 destroyers, 35 submarines, and nine auxiliary.