General Cables

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 161, 7 January 1914, Page 5

General Cables

*7 HWIRELESS TELTCRAPHY IV I" PERMITS, „*•'■*? ___ SrW I By Cable--Press AhiwciiiU^ivr-OopyrS^t'w Received 0, 9.lft'J.-A.-'.'x .f-*| Sydney, Jea^^A^ I The Postmaster-General hits ,j&qnßl3y twenty new wiretap telegraj^y-JHriqiK'ff? bringing the total number w.Aws§fKV-J up to 423. - ;•- 'V'.. - :SM A RUSH OF MIXERS.' ■ -?, £ Received fi, 0.10 pjn.. >,-^■;.•;•*'s 4 : / Miners are rushing from the j^f&f-\'\ west to the N«w Muni Comjpwgr , »^«B«.r".. field at Bcswiuk Creek, ™» feMW . decided to erect a Government §fttteiry , costing flora £5,00» to igiO;oM., ', v l ,^ IN MALE ATTIRB.- '• , ■ Received 6, 9.J0 p.m. . ' Sidney, January*. '■ \ A girl, who was d: •■>se4iij male - ; caused excitement c:i Circular Quay to* day. Sho was unable to disguise, her. | womanly form. \ 'jen arrested she-. '„ said that she did ii for a {>&■<& 4t,ty.'y'f\ , She was lectured 'by an inspector attJ'- .','» was sent home In a cob. . , -,.-', <{"-' i- -->•■■•; • ,■< FEDERAL BANK-NOTE' ISSP& ' '' \ Received «, 9.10 p.m. " 's#,']/>' , Melbourne, January. jft/ "H , v » - ' A Treasury return which VV to-day shows that the note issue at the close of the cjiSendftr •• ' year was back at high-watermark, '..j close on ten millions. There were'iuajxl 4,145,543 notes, valucu at £9,959,631''105.i ' ■ The gold, reserve \\>u £4,492,585, or-48 . f per cent, of the Issue. ' . '/■*,

THE SUEZ CANAL. , '"} Times—Sydney Sun Special Gables, r. Received (J, 7.65 p.m. .' • / Suez, January, 6- ' !' The maximum draught of the Suez Canal lias been increased from 28ft to <, - 29ft.

THE MEAT TRADK ■ ; . Received.o, 12.40 p.m. January 9.. Mr Dnnlop, director of,; Eastman'4, ",; Ltd., meat purveyors, lias'wiled fot ~'i Australia and Now Zealand' to' enquire "-\ r into the meat trade there, wisi,a\,view ' '' to the firm opening up 4 direct <!> 'i I GREECE WANTS BATTLESHIPS, ■' '^ Received ft, 10.40 p.m. '■a, J ■»'•,• I T ; ' yieima, JaniiaryftJ. ,'f The newspapers state that Greece' '4 j negotiating for the purchase, -of ilia . Chilian Dreadnought La Ter/e, which is being built by Armstrong, Whitwartb. , and Co., for £2,500,000. . Greece also* *, •?, hope 3to buy another immediately. ' '" i> ' *'

TRADES UNIONS AND POLITICS.) ' :•-' Received (1, 10.40 p.m. ' «. , London, January 8. ' i. A ballot in now in progress among; _; trades unions, in conformity with tW? 7\ Trades Unions. Act, on the question gft'Sv,' applying union funds to political object*.''"'"*< TnE PARIS MURDER, ' <-.;! Received 9, 10.40 p.nu . • ' ""■ 1 Paris, January ft, ■ Tragson's father lias been removed ttt - ' fl gaol infirmary. He Is extremely weak from diabetes. LEPROSY IN FRANCE. '' '. . Received (i, 10,40 p.m. Paris, January J. Owing to alarm at the steady increase of leprosy, a Bill is befnjt pre- - , pared to make it a notifiable disease . . and to provide for the isolation of . , streets in which casts occur. ,;