GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 114, 22 August 1910, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

THE DECIMAL SYSTEM. By Cable.—Press Association.—CoDvrigbt London, August in. All sections of the cotton trade are adopting the decimal system on September 1. Fractions of a penny wni, be expressed in Hundredths, and an weights in pounds. MILL HANDS STRIKE. Vienna, August 19. Four thousand mill .hands swuc» at Buda-Pesth for an increase of wages for Sunday work. FOUND DROWNED. London, August 19. The body of Frank Podxnore, the missing spiritualistic writer, was found in a pool at Malvern. PENNY POSTAGE. London, August 19. Two hundred and forty peers and bishops have signed a manifesto m iavour of penny postage with France. ITALIAN DEPUTY'S SUICIDE. Rome, August 19. Count Malcola, deputy for Venice, has committed suicide with a "revolver. It is believed that he has been insane since he killed the Democratic leader, Felix Cavaiotti, in a duel. BURIED BY LANDSLIDE. Berlin, August 19. Fourteen soldiers were buried by a landslide at Munz during a mining operation. MAD DOGS IN NEW YORK. New York, August 19. (Two mad dogs bit fourteen persons near New York. . STRIKERS FINED. London, August 19. Two dockers at Newport were fined £lO each and one £5 for assaulting free labourers on the Beacon Grange. BARE-FACED ROBBERY. Madrid, August 19. A man snatched a handbag containing jewellery and banknotes to the value of £BOOO from Senora Campos, wife of a parliamentary deputy, at Barcelona Station, and escaped.