GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 193, 4 January 1913, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

DISSENT IX TOOLEY STREET. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. London, January 2. A cabled summary of Sir UiOTgi! Reid's butter report lias aroused dissent in Tooley street. Mr. E. J. Newton, a member of the Colonial Committee, explained to an interviewer tliat a committee of dairy consultation members watches the trend of the market, visits the stores and inspects shipments. The committee sometimes calls selling agents into consultation and informs sellers what it considers a fair working basis when a market change of price is immii nent.

DAVID HARUM OR lIOMER. Washington, January 3. Professor M'Naughton, of M'Cill University, in a recent speech here, derided Messrs. Taft and Roosevelt, and said tbev were absolutely without classical knowledge. Mr. Taft owed more to David Hanuu than, to Homer oc Hebrew scribes. Professor* M'Xaugliton now apologises, saying he meant nothing personal. He was speaking simply as a classical scholar. The American press bitterly attacked Professor M'Naughton.

MURDER AND SUiCIDE. London, January 2. Bowley, a fireman on the. North Eastern Railway, with his wife, tooK a train at Darlingtou on the way home after their honeymoon. He killed her ■with a razor and afterwards committed suicide in the same compartment.

CHURCH MEMBERSHIP. London, January '2. During 1912 Congregation churches of tiie United Kingdom lost 2221 members and 3178 (Sunday School pupils. The Baptists lost 2231 members and 4024 scholars.

A PORTUGUESE CRISIS. Lisbon, January 2. The President failed to induce tlse Democrats and Conservative leaders to form a Cabinet. There are thirty vacancies in the Chamber. Meanwhile the President requested the Government to retain office.

THE WAK IN TRIPOLI. Tripoli, January 2. Bedouins attacked the Italian positions on the north, but were repulsed with heavy loss. The fleet assisted by shelling the Bedouin positions.

PRACTICAL POLITICS. Budapesth, January 2. Counts Tisza and Karolyi fought a duel, which lasted an hour. Thirty-two bouts were fought with sabres,and both sustained slight wounds. They (parted without a reconciliation being effected.

SPANISH POLITICS. Madrid, January 2. A sensation has been caused by Senor Mauras' resignation from the Senate, and the announcement that ninety-two Conservative deputies and senators are also retiring, as a protest against King Alfonso's accepting Senor Roman one's assurance that the Government has a majority.

A BRIDGE ACCIDENT. New York, January 2. At Huntingdon, West Virginia, eight were killed and fifteen injured through a portion of the Ohio-Chesapeake railroad fallirr- through a bridge on the Guyandotte River. The victims were chiefly ironworkers engaged on bridge repair work. BRITISH BANKING RETURNS. London, January 2. The 'bankers' clearing house turnover for 1912 was sixteen thousand millions, a record. ANARCHIST GANG BROKEN UP. Paris, January 2. The anarchist Nory, the last of the Bonnet gang, lias been arrested.