GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 175, 23 January 1914, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

SIIAI KLKTOX'n EXPEDITION. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright < London, January 21 Sir Ernest Shaekleton liia invited Sir Daniel flooeh to join his Antarctic expedition. and an acceptance of tiie invitation in likely. •WATERS! DKRS' LOO. ■Received 22, 0.50 p.m. Melbourne, .Tamiavy 22. At a meeting of the Watersiders' Federation, Mr Unfile:;, replying to a question, said: "It does not mean tlut they bad abandoned the log previously submitted."

£ NAVAL APPOINTAIEXT. Received 22. 0.50 p.m. ■Melbourne, January. 22. Captain Gordon Smith, who is at present commanding 11.A1.5. Encounter, has Jieen appointed to succeed Captain Onslow on the Naval Board. The salary is £IOOO a year. PRICE OF FLOUR. Received 22, 0.50 p.m. Melbourne, Janinrv 12. The reduction in the orice of flour in Sydney lias not affected the price here, .labor conditions not warranting a shrinkage of profits. CUSTOAIS DUTY ON DRED'GE. Received 22, fl.ii© p.m. Melbourne, January 22. The duty claimed by the Federal Customs on the liirocl dredge amounts to between £4OOO and foOOO. FRENCH DEAIAXD FOR EXTRADITION'. Received 22, 11 p.m. Constantinople. January 22. France has demanded ('>e extradition of A.vim Bey. late Prefect o f Police, on tli'e ground of complicity in the attem]\J on the life of Cheril'. Axini Bey left Paris hurriedly on the Sunday before the outrage. SENTENCES REDUCED. R'eeeived 22. 11 p.m. Berlin, January 22. As the result of an appeal, the sentences of the minor offenders iu the Krnpp scandal have been considerably reduced. "PRIME ENGLISH." Received 22, 11 o.ni London. January 22. Several butchers ha I" been fined for selling chilled meat "prime Engli.-h." TRAIL OP THE TOBACCO TRUST. Received 22. 11 p.m. Berlin. .TaniMvy 22. The police raided nianv tobacco firing in Dresden, and claim to have discovered evidence of the extensive ramiflca lion.-, of fhe American To'euco Tru-t. AMATRUT! FIRKMF.S. London. Jiinnni-i- 21. The Daily Alail states fin I, tin Opawa's amateur stokers and trimmer worked excellently and maintained i fraction of a knot below the norma speed. There was no shirking, thongl (ho n;en suffered severely from heat it the tropics.