GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 222, 7 February 1913, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES.

NO MONEY IX AVIATION. London, January 23. j .Mr. Willows, the well-known airship j buildi .-, who in 11110 made a Uight across ', the i .lanuel, is compounding with his | crullers. I JAPAN'S MONEY. j I Tokio, January 23. 1 Prince Katsura announces that his I I policy will be uue of strict economy, J j retrencliment and administrative reform. | lie expects to save about £3,000,000 j I annually. j 1 ' I FRENCH BATTLESHIPS. I London, January 23. I \ France proposes to construct four bat- I i tleships of 2.'),U00 tons each during the ) i current year. |

FRANCE SHOCKED.

London, January 23,

France Ims been shocked by the rcvcla- J tions that lias been made concerning the ' existence of opium dens, especially in the naval ports of the Republic. The police have just raided an establishment in Toulon which was much frequented by naval officers, und which it has since been discovered was maintained by a lieutenant in the navy. PENALTY FOR POACHING. London, January 23. Two men, Herbert Ironmonger and George Pridmore, were sentenced in Northampton to-day to twelve years' penal servitude for poaching in Titmarsh Wood. It was alleged that Pridmore fired at the gamekeeper and wounded him in the cheek. DREADNOCG UTS BUILDING. London, January 23. At the present time there are no fewer than eighteen Dreadnoughts under construction in British shipbuilding yards. These battleships, only some of which, of coure', are for the British navy, represent an outlay of £40,000,000, of which amount 70 per cent, will ' go in wages to English workers. QUERN VICTORIA'S TOMB. London, January 23. To-day being the twelfth anniversary of Queen Victoria's death, the Frogmore Mausoleum was visited by many thousands of people. Numerous wreaths were placed upon the sarcophagus, including one from the King and the Queen, the German Emperor, and other Royalties. NEW CURE-ALL. FRENCH DOCTOR'S DISCOVERY. London, January 23. Dr. E. Doyen, the famous French physician, who claimed to have discovered the cancer microbe, has unearthed, he says, the elixir of life. He calls it mycolsine, and has forwarded a supply of it to London, where it is. being sold at 5s a bottle. A patient requires a bottle of the mixture every day, and the inventor says that it will cure such diverse diseases as influenza in twenty-four hours, typhoid fever in a week, and mumps in six days. SECRET REMEDIES. PILLS AND THEIR INGREDIENTS. London, January 23. Giving evidence to-day before the Committee of the House of Commons that is investigating the manufacture and sale of patent medicines, Sir Joseph Beecham asserted that the book published under the title of "Secret Remedies" did not disclose all the ingredients of his pills. Referring to the output from his own establishment, Sir Joseph said that 1,000,000 pills were manufactured daily, and that the quantity turned out in a

year would weigh 50 tons. < Witness added that his firm spent £IOO,OOO annually in advertising its pills. SPIES, BEWARE! STRINGENT ADMIRALTY ORDER. London, January 23. The recent eases of espionage have caused the Admiralty to issue a special warning to captains of pleasure steamers regarding this crime. They are asked to let their passengersknow that under the provisions of the Official Secret 9 Act the Government will not hesitate to proceed against any person found taking photographs, or sketching, or using a hiograph machine to picture any part of dockyards, naval establishments or ships. In the dockyard towns of England, such as Portsmouth and Plymouth, pleasure trips that include a visit to the building ships are organised by the hundred every year. Any foreign agent could quite easily take part in these trips, and it is probably in this connection that the warning has been given. GARMENT-MAKERS'CONDITIONS. DENUNCIATION BY ROOSEVELT. New York, January 23'. In the company of two lady organisers, Colonel Roosevelt yesterday "visited a few of the East-side halls, where he met and conversed with many of the women and girls now taking part in the garment workers' strike. Colonel Roosevelt afterwards declared thatTthe working conditions were crushing the motherhood out of most American girls . What he described as a typical case was that of a girl fifteen years of age, who told him that she worked from S o'clock in the morning.nnt.il 9 o'clock at night after making 30 kimonos, for which she was paid at the rate of 2d < each.

Tin's girl made 24s a week, and had to pay the company by which she was cmployed £fi Ids a year for the use of a sewing machine. Another girl stated that siie received a salary of 10s, of which she had to spend 5s a week in car fares.

The ex-President has decided to confer with a mem her of the Senate with a view to having a committee appointed to investigate Hi A present working conditions in America.