GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 274, 11 April 1913, Page 8

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

i 1 * f snoitr-WEiciiT cutucKU. TEA AND PAPER, (Sydney Sun Special) London, Apiifl L Representatives of local authorities to-day interviewed Mr. lUixton, president of the Board of Trade, to urge that legislation should be introduced to protect the public against the unfeciupuJow practices of grocers, who are in the habit of giving their customers short weight. Glasgow inspectors reported tluit paper weighing 4.700,0001 b had been used in selling 118,000,0001b of tea. Mr. Buxton promised fatoraMe consideration of the deputation's request. ANTI-HOME RULERS. I'CimiEU STEPS TOWARDS ACTIVE RESISTANCE. London, April 2. A meeting of the Ulster Unionist Council lias been convened to take further steps towards active resistance of Home Rule. ONLY A PORTION. PRINCE OF WALES'S INCOME. London, April 1. The accounts of the Duchy of Cornwall show that the iucome of th» Prince of Wales, who is also Duke of Cornwall, amounts to £81,350 from that source alone. DEARER MEDICINE. . CHEMISTS PUTTING PRICES UP. ' London, April 2. Chemists are increasing the prices of medicines in consequence of the steadily advancing tendency in the • value of drugs. Within three months cod liver oil hM increased from £3 10s to £7 a barrel, and citric acid has gone up 30 per cent. BIG BANK SMASH. GERMAN FIRM'S DEFALCATIONS. London, April 1. A big German banking house, which has been established for nearly a century, has had to suspend payment. The head of the firm has disappeared, and the liabilities are estimated to be £1,500,000. Owing to the defalcation other German banks have been compelled to declare a moratorium. ACROSS THE ATLANTIC. MAMMOTH HYDROPLANE JOURNEY. London, April 2. The Daily Mail's offer of two prizes totalling £15,000 for successful hydroplane trips around the coast of Britain and across the Atlantic Ocean, has evoked great enthusiasm in England, on the Continent, and in America. It is confidently predieted that the journey across the Atlantio will be performed on one day between sunrise and sunset within the present year, MORGAN'S MILLIONS. DEAD- FINANCIER'S FORTUNE, > £60,000,000.

New York, April 1." Various estimates of the late Mr. Pierpont Morgan's fortune are being published in the press. Some papers calculate it at £10,000,000, but others place it as high as I £00,000,000. ; A Rome message reports that the i body of the dead millionaire is lying in state at the Grand' Hotel in one of the suites of apartments reserved for Royalty. Scores of people, including diplomats, Government officials and tourists, have viewed the remains. Messages of sympathy have been received by the family from several Euro- ; pean rulers. j ' POLICEMAN MURDERED. SHOT BY A SUBORDINATE.

MM '' London, April ]. ,j A double tragedy, the circumstance* of J which point to a case of murder and sui- ? tide, was brought to light to-day, when ) a sergeant of police in Wiltshire wa» dis- ■■] covered with his brains blown out. J The officer had been missing and hi* | whereabouts were being sought when his | body was found lying in a lonelv local- I Hy. 'i' «*il •:! Near at hand was the corpse of an- | other policeman, who also had been miss- J ing, and who, it was evident, had cominitted suicide by shooting himself. S The fact that the sergeant had occas* I ion only yesterday to report his con- i| stable for a minor act of misconduct :<t leaves little doubt that the latter killed ,; | himself after having shot the sergeant. | PEACE OF EUROPE. POWERS' CHIEF INSTRUMENT. J

London, April 2. 1 The Times, in a leading article discus* J sing Montenegro's defiance in reply to '! the. Powers, says that the worst conse- | quence will be the bankruptcy of the ; European Concert, -t "In the face of the world," snvs the article, "its chief instrument is the fur- * theranee of European peace, and for that :| reason we must uphold it." *3 WOMEN'S UGLY FACES. 1 DUE TO WEARING VEILS. I London, April 2. .] Sir .Tohn Coekbum. lecturing before the members of the Rovai Sanitary I*stitute yesterday, advocated a crusade against the wearing of veils by women. «j He claimed that the fearful grimaces • : j that women were in the habit of making to keep their veils in position, were ' i deterioration to the features.

SCENES OF HIS YOUTH. : MR. TIOLMAN TN LONDON. J London, April 1. I Mr. TTnliiiftn, the New South Wales I Attnmpv-OonpTal, lias been renewing 1 some rdpnsant associations in London, 1 his nntivp pitv. 1 he visitor! in Tottenham the J larpre Pii'tinpf fiietprv wl\pr«. as a vouth. 1 hp served h>s annrenHppshm. Tip vrn* J warmlv reecivpd liv his old employer, I ami work- wis susnnmlH whilo nil the " haiids assembled (o "ive th«ir dis tinvisitor n <rr"il rpppjitlon. Tlwj Hiole ptnfT of t]in pstaWishment was afterwards repalpd witTi rpfreshmpnls, I in tlip dar Mv. TToiman hail >=, Viscount llaldnnc. Lord Tlifth Chancellor.