GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 310, 23 May 1913, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

THE BEKF OCTOPUS. TIGHTENING ITS HOLD. (Sydney Sun's Special Service). Loudon, May 11. A special article on the meat trade that is published in the Times states, that there is good reason to fear that the Jieef Trua is extending and tightening its hold upon the chief source* of supply. it is pointed out that release of abnormal quantities of frozen meat during the past few mouths was part of a> carefully thought-out scheme, the object of which ;s not apparent to the lay mind. As an off-set to the. greater supply arriving from the Soutli American republics dwindling quantities are coming from the United States and Canada, while only mutton and iamb from the Antipodes count in the meat supply.

ARMY MOTOR CYCLISTS. London, May 11. A military aviator fund that was. started in Switzerland has resulted in £25,000 being voluntarily subscribed. Two private firms have each presented the Government with a sum sufficient for the purchase of an aeroplane.

KING, CZAR, AND KAISER. THREE RULERS TO MEET. '. London, May 11. The Czar will leave St. Petersburg on May 20 to attend the wedding of the Kaiser's daughter at Berlin. He will travel only with her personal suite. The: absence of his Ministers is intended to> emphasise the purely domestic character of the visit, and to afford an opportunity of King George, the Czar,, and Kaiser having a personal intercourse.

VAST TERRITORY OPENED UP. ' London, May 12. The Dinka tribes in Bahr el Oazal, an Egyptian province of the Sudan, blocked the construction of roads by the Egyptian authorities, ' °. An expedition was despatched to suppress the opposition, and it received the full submission of the tribes. The expedition also opened up a vast district north of Wau, a Sudanese town 000 miles south-west of Khartum.