GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 261, 27 March 1913, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

WELCOME RAIN. By Cable—Press. Association—Copyright. 1 Received 26, 10 p.m. Sydney, March 20. Rain has broken the spell of sweltering heat. Good falls occurred in the southern and western districts. SALE OF HORSES. Sydney, March 20. The bidding at the Show sales was slack. A consignment of draught mares, on behalf of John JSoag, Alexander liastie, Sam Wilson, and Mitchell and Brien (New Zealanders). ranged from 38 to 97'/L> guineas. LABOIt AND POLITICS. Received 27. 12.3.1 a.m. London. .March 20.

At tlio Labor Conference Mr. Philip Rnowden. M.l\, stated that the Independent Labor Party had .spent £IO,OOO on "lections during the last eighteen months, and had not won a scat.

the bishops and temperance. London. March '2O. At the flood Tcmjihivs' Conference at Scarborough, several speakers condemned the action' of the House of Lords 011 the subject of temperance legislation. .They described the Spiritual Peer*, as heinj as bold as lions 011 disestablishment. but timid as hares on the drink question.

THE RIGHT TO STRIKE. London. Mareh 20. The postal clerks' conference at Man Chester aHirmed the right to strike.

FonnTxr: ant) uttering. Received 27. 12.35 a.m. Sydney. March 2(1. Frank Llovd was found guilty of forging and nltiring an order in connection with the sale of the Greater J. 1). Williams Company's shares, with a. recommendation to mercy on the ground that he wa- the victim of cireuiw,lances. Ife was remanded for sentence.