GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 11 October 1907, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

Melbourne, October 10. Sir Win. Lyne accepted a reduction j in wire netting duties irom 30 per ceiit. ( against the world and per cent againat England to lj and 10 per cent j respectively. Wlllv.S Loudon, October U. The Archdeaconry of the London Registry hag directed Surrogates not {o : entertain any application for a license to marry a deceased wife's eister. They are in each case to refer the matter to the Faculty Office, Doctors' Commons, ' CANCER. | New York, October !). Doc-tor Cook Adams, in a report to the Chicago Hoard of Health, contends loat statistical investigations in Europe. i'.ritain, and the United States fully eorru'..orates the conclusions jirriv•■l at 1)V Australian scientists as the result of earlier Australian observations—that the great increase in cancer is due to increased consumption of animal foods—particularly the flesh of dise: ed animals. I!OHHKi:ii:S FROM CTTrRrifEH. Paris, October U. Antoine T);omas, merchant of Clerniont 1 -■rrui'l. has confessed that he been eiignjfed in systematic robberv . of antiquarian valuables from French < Iturehcs. Tie alleges f ]i:it many of tile !-ler«y connived at th« thefts. THE KAU.fXA SKELETON*. Sydney, October in. Th" woman's skeleton fonnd at Ballina ivlth the skull pierced by bullets has proved to lie that of an aboriginal. 'Hiere is no reason to suppose that a tr'ij_'edy had been enacted. A DISASTROUS TYPHOON". ! Port Darwin, October 10. An FjMern steamer brings news of r ' "or]"r t\iihoon at Hongkong, wlneli i'id consiilerable damnge to " shipping. TTie steamer SiiUberv was missin'/ when the mail left. The Japanese stenme:- Ta!oo Mam. plying oir the :ini?lze-K(nng. was de-troved br fire. A mad pnnie endued. Two hundred b-es were lost in a savage light for - life. v:hy nn nrxrwv? t> =tomfieh is weak and von -ivo *, f-m indb/ostfon. d^H ' -r.nr comfort T'lf flip vo,i "-. n t T ],„ n | V . n " of ri". ShehV'-' TVrmsfive Tnl>lll«s I eneh meil. Ti'"v d'"-.-«f vonr fn«-1 'J -"1 tl"!= nAorJst, sn d build vnij up, w ]r'n H, n ttomn.-di is reenverinfr its natural tone. everywhere.