GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 183, 20 December 1912, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

THE COST OF LIVING. | By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. New York, December IS. The Housewives' League of America j has started a campaign to reduce the cost of living. A movement was inaugurated to reduce the price of eggs in every city in the United States to Is per dozen. The movement is rapidly progressing, and' all political leagues have been asked to co-operate. THE JAPANESE PREMIER, Tokio, December 18. Baron Katsura has accepted the Premiership, THREATENING WOODEOW WILSON. New York, December 18. The case against Walter Dunn, charged with sending threatening letters to Mr. Woodrow Wilson, was dismissed. A motion .is pending to dismiss the case involving the other accused, through lack of evidence. A COINER PUNISHED. Paris, December IS. A coiner named Pessaret passed 5350 counterfeit five-franc' pieces at a profit of £560. He used purer silver than was used in genuine coins. He was sentenced to three years' imprisonment, with the benefit of the First Offenders Act. ENGLISH MAIL DELAYED. | Adelaide, December 19. » A portion of the English mail, including that for New Zealand, missed the train for Sydney on Tuesday, owing to an accident to a, mail cart. A BARQUE ASHORE. Adelaide, December 19. The French barque Chateaubriand', in ballast from Monte Video, is ashore on the Truebridge Shoal. The crew is safe, but it is doubtful whether the vessel will be got off.