GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 171, 19 January 1914, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

RACKIIORSKS INCINERATED. 1 By Cable—Press Association—Copyright Received 18, 5.5 p.m. London, January 17. A lire occurred at Dewhnrst's training establishment in.lreland. Fifteen racehorses were rescued. Lord Dudley's steeplechaser Swallowhawk was incinerduties. ti i j ':j'].l ?;; A CLERIC AND POLITICS. Received 18, 5.5 p.m. Paris, January 17. Despite an episcopal injunction to abandon politics, the Abbe Lemaire, a Radical Republican, has accepted the vice-presidency of the Chamber of Deputies. lie hrs now been episcopal!}' suspended until, lie resumes his priestly dufic. A EUROPEAN OF.ISIIA. Tokio, January 17. The first white woman to become a geisha, an English woman, has been licenced to appear at the Vokohoma ten gardens, i She was formerly a teacher in the service of the flovernor-Ocnera' of Korea, and is an accomplished player of the samisen. AGAINST MONOPOLIES. Received IS. 5.5 p.m. Washington, January 17. Representative Stanley has introduced an amendment to the, (Sherman AntiTrust law, making it illegal for the monopolisation or restraint of trade in any degree. The. amendment was designed to eliminate the "rule of reason" decision laid down by the Supreme Cou:'t in the Standard Oil eases. A SM(;r.:LKR StTFFRS. heme, January IS. Moulted. ;< S.'.!". was lined ;G::iOO for smuggling gun; vdt-r and phosphorus in a motor ear from France. At the Swiss frontier t 1 •■• motor car was ablaze, and the smug."' ■:■ was wounded in endeavoring to throw the contents over a precipice to .avoid detection. • i