GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 300, 12 May 1913, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

OIL CONTRACTS. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. London, May 9. With reference to the rumors, referred to in the Times, that Ministers were in some way interested in naval oil contracts, it is authoritatively stated that no naval contracts are pending, and that there cannot be any for months. CHEMIN-DE-FER. London, May 9. Pyser, manager of the Adelphi Club, was fined £l3O for allowing the playing of chemin-dc-fer. Chemin-de-fer is a new form of gambling which has become popular in high life circles. CLERGYMEN'S STIPENDS. London, May 9. The Congregational Union lias completed its fund of £250,000 for providing a minimum stipend for its pastors. BARONESS VAUGIIAN DIVORCED. Paris, May 9. M. Durrieux has divorced Baroness Vaughan, widow of the late King Leopold of Belgium. THE ANTI-ALIEN LAW. Washington, May 9. Japan's formal protest against the Californian anti-Japanese laws has been placed before Cabinet. THE RAND MINES. Capetown, May 9. Mr. Sauer stated in the Assembly that owing to the mortality amongst the Rand miners, the introduction of tropical natives would be no longer permitted. A LAPSE OF MEMORY. I Berlin, May 9. Major Usedom, who was subject to epileptic oblivion, disappeared and enlisted in the French Foreign Legion in Algiers. On recovering consciousness he appealed to his family to secure his release. PERPETUAL LIFE. Washington, May 9. Medical authorities, in papers read before the Congress of American Physicians and Surgeons, announced that life can be sustained in the tissue of animal organisms for four years after the ani--1 mals wherefrom the tissues were taken had died. One physician declared there was a probability of the ultimate demonstration that life was sustainable in tissues as long as the animal would have lived normally. THE OPIUM TRADE. Pekin, May fl. The Government has asked Britain to revise the opium treaty, and to permit the total prohibition of the importation of Indian opium. KILLED BY THE KAISER. Berlin, May 9. A motor-car containing the Kaiser, in avoiding a cyclist at Wiesbaden, killed a boy named Avowell. ATTACKED BY BRIGANDS. Cairo, May 9. Brigands stopped and ransacked a goods train at Assiut. The police interrupted them, and t shots were exchanged. A policeman and a brigand -were killed, and several seriously injured. THE HANOI OUTRAGE. Paris, May 9. The perpetrators of the bomb outrage in a safe at Hanoi, by which two French officers were killed, have been arrested. They accused the Pretender to the Throne of Annam of bribing them to throw bombs.