GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 199, 20 February 1914, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

RUSSIAN VODKA REVENUE. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright Received 20, 12.30 a.m. St. Petersburg, February 19. The Council of Empire rejected the limitation of 'income from the sale of spirits. SWEDISH PARLIAMENT. Received 20, 12.30 a.m. Stockholm, February 19. The Premier has announced an early dissolution. LAWYERS AS STRIKERS. Received 20, 12.30 a.m. Rome, February 11. Prominent lawyers have joined the strike. The strikers arc energetically picketing. Two blacklegs were thrashed at Pisa with sticks and fists. THE RHODES SCHOLARS. Times-Sydney Sun Special (.'allies. Received 19, 5.5 ft p.m. London. February 19. Seventy-four Rhodes Scholarship holders entered the .Oxford 1 niversitv in 1913. They held their own in all subjects excepting classics. (If the total of 431 Rhodes scholars, so far passed through Oxford, only eleven have remained in England at the conclusion of the course. UNEMPLOYED IN BERLIN'. Tillies-Sydney Sun Special ( aides. Received 19, 5.53 p.m. Berlin, February 19. The municipality has voted ,U 15,000 sterling for the relief of 80.000 unemployed. The money is granted in small loans. VILLAGES DEVASTATED. 1 Times Sydney Sun Special Cables. I Received 19, 5.55 p.m. ■Madrid, February 19. Torrential rain devastated Ovicdo and surrounding villages. The residents .took refuge on the roofs. Towns are ! isolated, and road and train traffic is popped.