GENERAL CABLES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1104, 3 June 1913, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

DRINKS BETWEEN MEALS. ANTI-SHO UTINcT MOVEM ENT. LONDON. May 7. Tlu« National Liberal Club has snelyed for twelve mouths a motion under which it was proposed to bar members against treating one another to drinks between meak. ARMY MOTOR CYCLISTS. LONDON, May 11. The War Office has given approval to the formation of a motor cyclist section in the corps of Royal Engineers. SWISS PATRIOTISM. NATIONAL AVIATION FUND. A military aviator fund that was started in Switzerland has resulted in £25,000 being voluntarily subscribed. Two private ■firms have each presented tho Government with a sum sufficient for tho purchase of an aeroplane. KING, CZAR AND KAISER. THREE RULERS TO MEET. LONDON, May 11. Tho Czar will leave St. Petersburg on May 20 to attend tho wedding of tho Kaiser’s daughter at. Berlin. He will travel only with his personal suite. Tho absence of his Ministers is intended to emphasis* tho purely domestic character of the visit, and to afford an opportunity of King George, the Czar, and Kaiser having « personal intercourse. VAST TERRITORY OPENED UP. LONDON. May 12. The Dinka tribes in Bahr el Gazal, an Egyptian province of the Sudan, blocked the construction of roads by tho Egyptian authorities. An expedition was despatched to suppress the opposition, and it received the full .submission of the tribes. The expedition also opened up a vast, district, north of Wait, a Sudanese town 600 miles south-west of Khartum. •

BOXER INDEMNITY.

CHINA’S LEISURELY PAYMENTS.

LONDON, May 7. In answer to a question in tho Honso of Commons today, Mr F. 1). Acland, Parliamentary Secretary of the Foreign Office, said that" £199,000 had been paid to Britain by China in connection with the Boxer indemnity. Mr Acland added that £7.393,822 was still owing, and that the payments were twelve months in arrears.

GREY HAIR AND TEETH DELAY. FRENCH SCIENTIST’S THEORY. LONDON, May 7. Addressing the. French Academy of Science. Professor Gautier stated that it was probable that grey hair and decay of the enamel of the teeth were duo to Ihe decrease in tho system of substances containing fluorine."

“QUO VADIS?”

ROYALTY AT THE BIOGRAPH.

LONDON, May 6The King; and Queen drove to the Albert Hall privately last night, and witnessed the biograph, film, “Quo Vadis. RAILWAY FIREMEN, IMPORTANT AMERICAN AWARD. LONDON, May 5. All important arbitration award has been mailt* in the United States, under which, railway firemen have secured an increase of front ten to twelve per cent in their present rates of pay. CAN’T LIVE ON 22 SHILLINGS.

DOCKERS’ MINIMUM WAGE

LONDON, May 5. The dockers at Portland are asking for a. in ininui in wage of 28s a week, alleging that it is impossible for married men to live on 22s a week, owing to higher rates and rents. The Admiralty has promised to consider the demand. FREE LIVING. BOARDINGHOUSES EXPLOITED. LONDON, May 4. A woman, aged 35 years, was .sentenced yesterday to three months’ imprisonment for defrauding boardinghouse keepers. It was proved that she had been living for nothing lor eight years by stopping at boardinghouses and pretending that she was the- maid of the wife of an American millionaire. By this means she obtained credit, and then CONSUMPTIVES’ SANATORIUM. A MONTREAL SCHEME. MONTREAL, May 4. Dr. Friedmann, whose consumptive care i.s just now being subjected to considerable criticism by the profession, both in Canada and tlic United States, is at present m Montreal. , , , , It is reported that plans uro about to be laid for a huge sanatorium, where the Friedmann treatment will be administered. BIBLE SOCIETY’S INCOME. LONDON, May 8. The annual report of the British and Foreign Bible Society discloses that the general fund receipts have risen to xidbl,218, the. largest income the society lias ever bad in a, normal year. FALSE LOTTERY. BERLIN, May 5. A lottery promoter at Frunkfort-on-Main ■\£on £9OOO in 18 months by fraudulently drawing the principal prizes. Ho was sentenced to a year’s imprisonment and linen £450. COTTON MERCHANT’S ROMANCE. LONDON, May 8. Nathaniel Ecclcs, a member of a firm of wealthy cotton manufacturers in Harwell, Lancashire, has married a pretty operation who used to work in one of his nulls.

OLYMPIC GAMES.

THE THORPE CASE.

AMERICANS THANKED.

LONDON, May 8. Tiio Duke of Somerset has been elected to represent the English Olympic Games Committee in. place of Lord Desborongn, who resigned. • ... At. a mooting of the Olympic Committee a vote of thanks to the American Amateur Athletic Union was curried for that body’s sporting conduct in cancelling tire victories of the Indian, Thorpe. Thorpe, was the greatest, nll-romul performer at. the Olympic games held last year at Stockholm, but a few months’ ago it transpired'that ho had some time before figured once hr twice in American professional baseball. . After o-oing: into Iho matter,' and receiving a° ciofessiou flom Thorpe, who declared he had offended unknowingly, the Indian was.- deprived- of -all his honours, and tho trophies- of -euccess were taken from him and returned. One trophy had been presented by tho King of Sweden, and another by Iho Czar of Russia.

SEARCHLIGHTS FOR FIREMEN.

ELECTRIC LAMPS ON HELMETS,

LONDON, May 7. Experiments, arc; lifting mgdc in London with a view to* providing firemen with electric searchlights, which will be attached to their helmets.