GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 243, 4 March 1913, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

A CHINESE HEROINE. | By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Pekin. March 2. \ The daughter of a Kiautse magistrate oft'cral herself as a bride, in a. lottery of thirty thousand four shilling tickets, to relieve (.lie famine stricken district of Wcnchau. ISLAM PERTURBED. Constantinople, March 2. A pamphlet which is being extensively circulated alleges that Christianity is combining against Islam and advocates retaliation on all Christians. CERMAN BATTLESHIP LAUNCHED. Berlin., March 2. The Kaiser, at Wilhelmshaven, witnessed the launch of the super-Dread-nought Koenig. He declared that such battleships were the greatest need of the present serious hour. FRENCH ARCTIC EXPEDITION. Paris, March 2. M. Depayer is organising an Arctic expedition.' The French Covernmeut is assisting, and will establish a wireless station. The expedition takes two aviators. BRITISH RAILWAY SMASH. London, March 2. A locomotive dashed into an electric train at the motor station at Ncwc.-i-tle-on-Tyne, telescoping the last carriages and injuring 25 people. \ A WAVE OF PATRIOTISM. Paris, March 2. ] A Temarkable wave of patriotism is ! now being experienced, and press and public, have accepted the necessity for a three years' service. Many time-ex-pired men are volunteering for a new term, especially cavalrymen. A FROZEN GULF. St. Petersburg, March 2. Thirty steamers are frozen in the Gulf of' Riga. Ice-breakers are being sent there. THE INDIAN SURPLUS. Delhi, March 2. The Indian surplus amounts to £3,361,900. The opium revenue has decreased by £3,617,700. The Budget provides £563,700 for education, and £12,000,000 I for railways. LORD HARDINGE HONORED. Delhi, Mar-.?;! 2. A hundred and thirty-ssven lli'uis- , and rupees (8500) have been subscribed 1 as a thanks offering for th? Viceroy's i public reappearance. It :s expect; H tnat| fifty thousand rupees (filW)) will also be collected for a statue of Lord Hard-1 inge. I BIRTH-RATE DECLINE. ] London, M- vol: 2 The birth-rate in England and Wa'et for 1912 was 23.8 and -he death-re to. 13.3. Both the figures are ioe lowest ever recorded. [The birth-rate for the United Kingdom in 1895 was 29.4 and the deathrate 18.7. Since that time there h-.s been a steady decrease in hot a birth . :id death rates.] j THE NEW ZEALAND. Capetown, March 2. The Turf Club at Ketißwth entertained the officers of the New and afterwards they dined with Loul Gladstone. There, was a large attendance at the sports which had been arranged for the crew on Green Point ground. The Mayor entertained the men at a smoke concert.