GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 253, 15 March 1913, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

A PERSIAN" OUTRAGE. By Cab!c— Press Association —Copyright. London, Alarch .13. Two hundred Baharloo raiders plundered tin; villages in the vicinity of Bunder Abbas. '"They attacked a British survey party, but were repulsed after severe lighting. COMMONWEALTH'S REPRESENTATION. London. March 13. Sir George Reid lias appointed Professor Maues Australian representative at Berlin, and Mr. Philpotts, British Consul, representative at Vienna. The British Chamber of Commerce will represent Australia in Paris. A DISASTROUS CYCLONE. New York, March 13. A cyclone destroyed the town of Provencal. Three persons were killed and i fiftern injured. A relief train ha* been despatched. THE BUTTER MARKET. London, March 13. Sir George Reid received six Tooley street agents who sell the butter of cooperative societies. They emphatically denied that they fixed prices to >uit one another, and handed in statutory declarations to that effect. . Sir George Reid has cabled to Mr. Thomas asking him to publish them. Sir George Reid suggests that if the co-operative societies are unwilling to join a thorough inquiry 5 into existing methods, he be authorised I to appoint an impartial commissioner to make an inquiry. A DIVORCE CASE. London, March 13. Mareellus Morand, the actor, has divorced his wife. The co-respondent was Captain James Archibald Morrison, ex-M.P. The parties agreed to the damages as £SOO.