GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 195, 7 January 1913, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. By Cable—Press Association —Copyright, London, January 1. Lord Lucas, speaking at Marlington, said the Government was establishing through the Development Funcl district councils •to control agricultural education. First-rate scientists were studying soils and plant and animal breeding, ■and the results would bo communicated to farmers. MR. WHITELAW IIEID. New York, January 5._ Mr. White Law Reid was buried in the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery. Mr. Taft, Mr. James Bryce and members of the British Embassy, and many prominent me* attended the funeral. Bishop Greer officiated at the service in the church, assisted by Bishop Leonard. Mr. 'Roosevelt was amongst those who marched in the procession. BERRI-BERRI. London, January 5. Doctor Yorke, of the Tropical School of Medicine, advocates the extermination of big game in Rhodesia, in order to stop sleeping sickness. [The tse-tse fly exists only in the presence of the larger wild animals and inoculates human beings with the bacillus of sleeping sickness.] | A MYSTERIOUS AIRSHIP. ' London, January 5. [ A mysterious Continental airship has passed over Dover. FUNERAL VAULTS ROBBED. Paris, January 5. - Thieves at night ransacked 120 vaults in the Levallois Perret Cemetery, and also pillaged the chapels. CURRENT-ROBBER KILLED. Brussels, January 5. An inhabitant of Peruwelz was electrocuted through attempting to, tap the public wires with a view to connecting his own premises; THE POPULAR BANANA. I London, January 5. The trade in bananas to England and Germany has enormously increased, and is affecting raisins and figs. t I PETROL FOR MOTORISTS. London, January 15. A British syndicate, owning oilfields, I has been formed to sell motorists cheap j petrol. NEW BATTLE CRUISER. j London, January 5. ) The battle cruiser Princess Royal, in I her trials, attained a speed of 30 knots.