GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 68, 7 August 1912, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

THE 1)0Y SI'OUTS. By Cable —Press Association—Copyright. London, August 5. Though I here is rough wcaithcr in the South u.f England, 100,000 Scouts- and other boys arc under canvas. They are the guests of Lord Rothschild at Thring Park, Hertfordshire, and -of Mr. L. Haircourt, at Xunchain Park, Oxfordshire. THE TRADE COMMISSION. London, August 5. The Trade Commission will meet in New Zealand on March- 1, and thence proceed to Australia, afterwards sitting in South Africa or Canada. At the conclusion of the -il tings the commission will meet in London to prepare a >re- | port. ALLEGED SPIES. London, August 5. The five yachtsmen, who indlude a murine painter, doctor, engineer, -barrister, and student, photographed the new torpedo shooting stands at Alteuhof, and were found in possession of (plates with exposures of all the harbors and bays in Schieswig-llolstein, especially of Kiel Harbor. Their explanation was unsatisfactory. A PLAGUE PATIENT. London August 5. A boy who was operated on at Liverpool! for supposed appendicitis was found to be affected with plague, bacilli. TAXING BACHELORS. Budapest, August 5. I The municipality of Nagy-Perkata tas imposed a tax on bachelors to build a children's hospital. A STRIKE ENDED. Paris, August 5. The .strike of naval conscripts at Havre has ended. A GIFT TO INDIA. London, August 5. M:r. B. Malbaris, at the instance of Indians, is founding in India a Morley chair of the philosophy of history.