GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 75, 20 July 1914, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES.

{[By Electric Telegraph— I Copyrightj Times and Sydney Sun Services. London, July 18. There is a world-wide slackening off in cotton factories. The American section of the Federation has decided to slow down until the end of September. The Wesleyan Conference sympathetically 'received •an appeal from the Institute of Journalists against the unfair competition by ministers who reported for the daily Press, and a committee was appointed to investigate the complaint. The Select Committee which is enquiring into the matter ot short weight reports upon the whole retail trade as being honestly conducted. A certain number ot traders used tea wrappers unnecessarily heavy, their weight greatly increasing the percentage of tare and dinUnishihg the net weight. The committee recommends that bread should be sold by weight only. Da * [-tfkWMV Press Association . ] New York, July 18. The heat wave caused two deaths at New York, six deaths at Philadelphia, and several at Boston, besides which scores of people were prostrated. V * ■ London, July 18. Nineteen London plumoers have accepted the master builders terms. A National Council for the combatting of venereal diseases, composed of.representatives of the medical profession and the general public, is being formed. The Wesleyan Foreign Mission Centenary Fund has been completed at £283,499. . ! . Captain Halsey is entertaining twenty Maorilanders aboard H.M.S. New Zealand for the great review at Spitheacl. • 1 The-Hissey petition was dismissed, the jury finding that neither had committed adultery, « . Now York, July 18. Mrs Carman has been indicted for manslaughter in the first degree. Her friends offered bail up to half a million..dollars. - T - Melbourne, July 19. , A French proclamation has been issued including white slavery in the list of international extraditional offences. New York, July 18. Several hundred striking miners attacked the mine guard at Prairie Greek Fort Smith. A pitched battle ensued, in which fire and dynamite were used and destroyed the 'workings of three mines. Several were injured on both sides by riffo fvishades. The rioters held the mines for several hours, doing immense damage. New York, July 18. The Louisville Council, Kentucky, has issued an ordinance forbidding negroes to invade the residential! portion of the city Occupied by whites, ft also prohibits whites living in the negro quarters. Of recent years the negroes have progressed in education and wealth, and there is a tendency among the wealthier to purchase property in hotter portions of the city, which is resented by the white population, because their property is depreciated in value as a consequence.