GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 1, 2 June 1913, Page 7

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

CHILD SWEATING. EASTBOURNE'S YOUNG SLAVES. (Sydney Sun Cable). London, May 14. Medical reports on the health of the boys of the public schools of Eastbourne show that many of them arc physically below the normal standard. They are tired, slow, and anaemic. Most-of them arc fagged out before they begin their lessons. Many of the boys who arc under 12 years old, continues the report, work in the factories for from three to eight hours on school days and from 12 to 4 hours on Saturday. ■ THREE WOMEN MURDERED. MINER'S CRIME AND SUICIDE. San Francisco, May 14. 'George Hampton, a miner, at' Globe, Arizona, yesterday, killed his wife, who was a nurse in a country hospital, and his wife's mother-in-law and sister. The murderer then put the muzzle of a shot-gun into his mouth and blew off the top of his head. AUSTRALIAN MEAT. GOOD RESULTS IN 'FRISCO. London, May 20. Australian meat in San Francisco is much appreciated, and there are great possibilities of a satisfactory trade being developed. 'FRISCO'S CHILDLEY. BACK TO NATURE. San Francisco, May 14. Ernest Willing Darling has returned to San Francisco from Papeete, where he had been living for the last eight years in a state of nature. Darling left Stanford University years ago because, he said, the efficacy of solar therapeutics was not understood there. He took to the hills, and lived chiefly on herbs, twigs, roots, fmits, and berries. Then he decided to go to the South Sea Islands.

When he landed in San Francisco yesterday he wore only a thin jersey and very short knicker-bockers. His hair and beard were long and untrimmed. He said he had been living all the time on cocoanuts. APARTMENT HOUSE FIRE. HEROIC FIREMEN AND POLICE. San Francisco, May 14. A large apartment house on Nob Hill was partly destroyed by fire last night. The flames burst out shortly after midnight and spread quickly from the first to the fourth floors. Some of the lodgers escaped, but many, principally women, were driven up the staircases, which were afterwards burnt away. The firemen and police made several heroic rescues. The men in the bouse were able to come down by means of the fire escape, but the women were too hysterical to help themselves. Firemen and police then climbed up through the smoke and sparks and carried the women down on their shoulders.

TOLL OF THE STREETS 561-PERSONS KILLED LAST YEAR. London, May 20. The Times, in a leading article on the frequency of street fatalities, says that every year the toll of death exacted by the maelstrom of the streets grows more formidable. In 1910 there were 307 persons killed in the streets of London, and in 1912 the total was 501, an increase of over 50 per cent. Practically the total increase of fatalities in two years was due to mecha-nically-propelled vehicles, the motor omnibus being the greatest offender. It is pointed out that the Police Commission is opposed to a speed limit, but that the London County Council urges the adoption of a ten-mile limit in certain districts.

The Times comments upon the absurdity of the situation, and insists that it is necessary to establish an independent board to control the street traffic. BRAVE GERMAN OFFICER. ENTERS POISONOUS SEWER. London, May 20. Four workmen were suffocated by poisonous gas while working in a sewer in Berlin to-day. Lieutenant Dittmar, who was walking i the street overhead, was told of the /■cKlent. He ran to the manhole lead•:g to the sewer, .and lowered himself by a wire-rope. In a few moments he was overcome by fumes and was pulled up unconscious. After resting and recovering consciousness, he went down the hole a second time and succeeded in: rescuing the bodies. They were brought to the surface, but life could not be restored.