GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 108, 23 September 1912, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

THE.CANADIAN TARIFF .. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Ottawa, September 20. Canadian manufacturers are urging the Government to amend tlic tarill'e, in order to provide more complete protection for Canadian industries, particularly wool and steel. Aid to shipbuilding on the Paeilie coasts is also being urged. REDUCED CABLE RATES. London, September 20. The Eastern Telegraph Company will reduce the press rate to India to fourpence a word.

KING TO VISIT AFRICA, London, September 'JO. The Pall Mall Gazette states tihat the King has provisionally promised to open the acropolis at Pretoria in 1914. The visit will include Rhodesia. ' " A GAMBLER'S FATE . ' ; : Paris, September 20. La 11 "Anin Godwin, a ' Cingalese student at Oxford, absconded to Parw, with £4OOO worth of pearls, belonging to a compatriot. He gambled the proceeds away at various European, casinos and committed suicide at Enghien. A DOMESTIC TRAGEDY. Paris, September 20. A jealous husband, meeting Jus rival in the Place de Lotile, a crowded street, had a revolver duel with him. Ten rthots were exchanged. The husband was slightly wounded, and the wife, who interposed, was also' wounded. The crowd, mistaking the husband for an Apache, roughly handled him. A VENDETTA. Parjs, September 20. ' Paoli, the Corsican bandit, is still uncaptured. He has murdered his twentyfourth as an act of revenge on those harboring his rival, Sanguinetti. AN EXPLOSIVE CONTRACT., ■ New York, September 20.'

A British company bid under every United States projectile foundry for a large United States Government contract. Tlie United - States shellmakers held an indignation meeting refusing to continue making- shells unless an American firm.got the contract. The Government has surrendered.-