GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 12, 14 June 1913, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

MR. ROOSEVELT IN ARGENTINA. By Cable—Press Association—-Copyright. New York, June 12. Mr. Roosevelt is planning a lecture tour through the Argentine. AFRICAN NATIVE LANDS. Capetown, June 12. The Assembly passed the third reading of the Native Land Bill. AN UNEXPLAINED BOMB. y * London, June 12. A bomb thrown at a train at Runcorn, Cheshire, exploded in the street, and a girl had a narrow escape. PRIVY COUNCIL APPEAL. London, June 12; The Privy Council heard the case of the Kauri Timber Co. v, the Commissioner'of Taxes. Judgment was reserved. Respondent was not called. BRITISH COLUMBIA. Vancouver, June 12. The British Columbia 'Agricultural Cominisison is arranging a. visit to Australia and England in connection with the development of agriculture in the province. SENSATIOnIn~*A THEATRE. . Lisbon, June 12. : During a performance in aid of the .political;prisoners.a group 1 of men en-. < tered the' theatre and' fired revolvers. Troops surrounded the building and dispersed , the .disturbers' of the. audience) which included' many' foreign diplomats. MISSIONARY EXPENDITURE REDUCED. London, June 12. Owing to the deficiency of £70,000 the London Missionary Society has reduced its annual expenditure by £15,000, and is withdrawing fro-n certain portions of the mission field in '•. ia, Africa, New Guinea and the Sou .. Seas. TRADE AND THE EMP: ". Sydney, J :>!.- 13. The Herald, in leaders discus.-.:. trade and the Empire, says the L .1 relationship was founded on ra; . ,i>>t on trade. If it were founded on ■ \->li and common profit, instead of rsi" -id a • common ideal, there would be n ' apire. i Trade interest sometimes coined 1 with racial interests, and sometimes c it right across them, hut the Empire n,> more depended on trade for its binding principle than did the family. A FICTIONAL FICTIONIST. London, June 12. Mr, Pett Ridge, the novelist, recovered £l5O damages for libel from the English Illustrated Magazine for publishing an inferior story by Oubbins, a grocer's assistant, who use Pett Ridge's name. A RUINED CAREER. * London, June 12. Captain E. Crawsliay-Williams, Liberal member for Leicester, has resigned, owing to his being co-respondent in the divorce case of Mr. H. W. C. Carr-Gomm, Liberal member for Rotherhithe. ■ ' (Captain Crawshay-Williams was assistant private secretary to Mr. Churchill in 1906-8, and parliamentary pri- ■ vate secretary to Mr. Lloyd George in 1910. He married in 1908, and has two children). FACTORY STATISTICS. Sydney, June 13. Official statistics disclose the fact that last year the number of factories in New South Wales increased from 5039 to 5159. Wages paid increased from £11,000,000 to £12,000,000, an increase of £1,500,000. The increase in the num- | ber of employees was 6883. BETTER WEATHER. Sydney June 13. The weather has eased, but the sea is still rough. Shipping has had a bad time, and many vessels are sheltering. AUSTRALIAN EMIGRATION. London, June 12. Tito Times says that owing to the falling off in Australian emigration .the J States have approached the shipping companies to amend the three years' /contract because the additional accommodation is not wanted. The decrease in emigration is attributed to"Hie' high wages among skilled laborers, in •Britain. PENNY-A-WORD CABLES. Sydney, June 13. Sir I-lennikcr Heaton, in an interview, said he was sure his ideal of a universal penny postage would be achieved before very long, and he was hopeful of seeing penny-a-word cables instituted in liis dav.