GENERAL CABLES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 254, 6 March 1911, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

I SMALL-POX IN ENGLAND. By- Cable—Press Association—Copyright. London, March 3,. | Responsible officials declare that the precautions taken are such that there is little fear of a small-pox epidemic. CHOLERA IN HONOLULU. New York, March 3. Thirteen cases of cholera are reported from Honolulu, and there are indications that the disease is widely scattered. The authorities have closed the poi factories. SOUTH AFRICAN IMMIGRATION. London, March 3. Reuter's Capetown correspondent states that the new Immigration Bill repeals the' previous laws and substitutes one applicable on April 1 to the whole Union. There will be no distinction. of race or color, thus removing the serious Indian grievance. The education test will be borrowed? from that of the Australian Commonwealth. THE AMERICAN TARIFF. Washington, March 3. The Senate talked out the Permanent Tariff Board Bill, though it was strongly backed by the Government. The Bill will again figure on the Congressional programme.

THE HAREM SKIRT. London, March 3. Twenty thousand people in Liverpool mobbed a lady who was wearing a harem skirt. FIRST GARDEN CITY. Ottawa, March 3. The first garden city in Canada will be established in the vicinity of Vancouver. .: ;■ . _ DRIVERS ON STRIKE. New York, March 3. A thousand drivers and helpers of tint United States Express Company are out on strike. TURBULENT STRIKERS. Ottawa, March 3. Troops have been called out at Springhill, Nova Scotia, to suppress strike disorders. The strike has lasted 20 months. The strikers wrecked houses and injured the mine manager, who has been arrested on a charge of inciting to riot.

FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE.' Amsterdam, March 3. There is an outbreak of foot and mouth disease in the Limburg and other provinces. The outbreak originated from Germany. THEAOTEA. Capetown, March 3. The Aotea has been docked. SENTENCED FOR ASSAULT. Lisbpn, March 3. Three men who recently assaulted Stephens, the cabman who gave evidence in the case wherein Steiner Morrison was charged with the murder of Beron, were found guilty at the Old Bailey. One was sentenced to twelve months' and ~the, other two to six months' imprisonment.

THE BRITISH CENSUS. London, March 3. The 1 Registrar-General has suggested to the Board of Education to arrange special lessons in filling census schedules to elementary schools.

REVOLUTION IN PARAGUAY. Buenos Aires, March 3. There i 3 a revolution in Paraguay. Five thousand rebels in the north captured two small towns. The Argentine Government threatens reprisals for the seizure of three Argentine vessels by the Dictator Jara.

PUBLIC OPINION PREVAILS. Paris, March 3. In connection with the staging of Bernstein's play, "Apres Moi," at the Comedie Francaise, further riots have taken place. A mob of two thousand made numerous attempts to storm the theatre. The municipal mounted guards repeatedly chafged the demonstrators, who were trampled under foot Revolver shots were fired, and the police suffered severely while repelling attacks on Bernstein's residence. Paris, March 4. Bernstein lias withdrawn the play. "THE WRONG MAN." Calcutta, March 3. Mukherji, who threw a bomb at a motor containing a public works engineer, has confessed that he threw the bomb at the wrong car. It is believed that he intended to kill an officer of the Criminal Investigation Department. Cowley, the inspector who was in the car, escaped death by cleverly catching the bomb.

NICARAGUA. Mexico, March 3. Advices to hand state that Dr. Rudolph Pinosa and forty-four men have been convicted and sentenced to be shot for complicity against the Nicaragua Government.