GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 169, 16 January 1914, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

ORATKFUL OUAXGIv WOMEN. By Telegraph.—Press Association. London, .January 14. A deputation o£ Drury Lane orange voiucn waited on Mr. K. McKenna, lome Secretary, and pleaded permission 0 eonlimie to carry mi their trade.. riiey sat at the rear of the room with their baskets of fruit, while their spokesman stated their ease. Mr. McKemia promised to rescind the police! iction, when the women stood and shouted "Cod Mess you." .JAPAN'S DEFENCE EXPENDITURE. Tokio, January M. The Budget provides a new naval programme of sixteen mill ions sterling spread over seven years. The naval appropriation for the current year is increased 'by three and a-lialf millions ane tlio army vote by seven millions. TIIB MANCHESTER MURDER. London, January 14. Summer and Eltoft were coimuitt.M for trial on a charge of murdering Miai ISiiuHield, whose body was found in tin Manchester Canal. BANK CASHIER'S TIIEKT. London, January 14. Walter Robson, cashier at the Loudoi office of the Commercial Bank of Aus tralia, pleaded guilty to a charge o ..stealing .C7OOO in notes from the Imik He Recounted for £-1500 and the eas was adjourned till February 10 to rilloi kiccused to furnish., a n explanation, v garding tlio other £2500. A SHOOTIN(r AFFRAY. Paris, January 14. A young man attempted to see (Titer Pasha, leader of the Turkish Radical; .and shot and wounded Chcrif's servan Cherif's son-in-law shot the assailaii dead. j " FAST MOTORIXC. , London, January 14, | Tfornstead, in a Hwiz car at Brool ; lands Covered two miles at the l'ato < \ 122 miles an hour, and five miles at tl rate of 1 Hi miles an hour. p KrrY <) !■'F ICER'S K MBEZZI .E MEN': London, January 14. Elect Paymaster John Mofl'at Lower, of the warship flanges, is being com' martialled on a charge, of embez/.liii | .110,000, 1 CANADA'S HOUSE IX LONDON. I London, January 14. ' Tin* livening Standard states tin , Canada has definitely decided not j build a. Dominion house in Westminsto ) and tliat it is also unlikely to enterta ( the Aldw.veh site, as the Government (disinclined to embark oil an expensii (scheme. TASMANIAX POLITICS. llobart, January 15. A political crisis is pending in Ta mania owing to a bivelection having <1 prived the Government of its majorit 'Pile Liberal and Labor parties are oqn# lv divided, liftcen each; If the Oppotion refuse to give the (iovcrnnient Speaker a. crisis and subsequent eic tion will follow. PRINTERS* STRIKE EXDED. llobart, January !.">. The printers' strike is ended. Thome have returned to work, the. terms n eepted being (Kls for jobbing hands, ; advance of 3s on the old Tate, 3>/ 8 d p 1000 ens for linotypers, all others at tJ provincial rate. ANOTHER FIRE IX SYDNEY. Sydney, January l.'i. A lire at Oonnack's Tjtd., eooperag Darling Harbor, caused damage estima od at £IIOOO, which is covered by i snrance. S.s. SO.\l EIi,SET DAMAGED. Brisbane. January LI. The steamer Somerset was danmgt jby lire during fumigation. Tt will ji volvo extensive repairs on Ihe vessel arrival in London. SAYINI.'S BANK RATIOS. Sydney, January 15, The Commissioner of the Xcw' Sunt \\ ales (savings Hank has fixed intent deposits for the current year at ,'t :l per cent., which is % per cent lowc than in 11)13. INDIAN SEDITION. Delhi, January 14. The floverinnent has suppressed « Lahore, Ihe pan-Islam newspaper Zcntii dar, winch has the widest circulalio of any Hindustani organ. I EFFFCT OK UNITED STATES I TARIFF. ff«w York, January 14. The wholesale prices of staple woollei good* liavc been reduced. Accordin; to a New York trader's ainiouncemen the cut has been made in view of tin .new tiirill' in conjunction with foreitn competition. " SOBI'A.YJE DISSOLVED. Sofia, January 14. | The Suliranjc has dissolved owin."- tc | the opposition groups refusing to pass the provisional vote on account. lIAXDLIXG "BLACIv" WHEAT. s y<lney, January 1.3. trouble. 'i.s looming in connection with tlio dispute in country centres re .liund!in" oa ' J Wl ' e k'. v - I" the meantime the wharf Laborers' Union 'has'decided on no account to handle "black" wheat if the country unionists are apprised ol the number of trucks. Fanners are prepared In checkmate, them by load ill" themselves if necessary.