GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 200, 21 February 1914, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

THE POOR IN PARIS. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright Paris, February I!), The Government has refused Prince Victor Napoleon's offer of £4OO towards thi) poor in Paris, in celebration of the birth of bis son. MOTOR BANDITS. Pari.-, February ID. Five yrey-ckd motor bandits raided shops at Ilyercs and stole £2OOO worth of jewellery. It is supposed they were concerned in a theft at Monaco in January. DROUGHT IX SOUTH AFRICA. Capetown, February li). Owing to the long drought the crops in South Africa are a complete failure. WHITE SLAVE TRAFFIC. Berlin, February 1!). Lubelski is charged with wholesale bribery of Prussian and Russian frontier ollicials, in connection with the white slave trallie. His profits amounted to £3OOO a year. A LIBEL ACTION. London, February 111. In the Adam v. Ward libel case, the jury found that Colonel Sir Edward Ward published the document in discharge of his public duty, but the eontents were not proper for the public to know. Major Adam was awarded £21)00 damages. A PRINCELY BORROWER. Times-Sydney Sun Special Cables. London. February 10. The Prince of Wied is doscribed as a hustling prince of martial figure. Tinthree million loan for Albania has not been completed. The Prince will proceed to Albania on Sunday. The Times, in a leader, says it lias not known an ardent prince ever set forth on a more adventurous enterprise. BRITAIN AS A MODEL. Berlin, February 10. In the Budget Committee of the Reichstag, the Secretary of State for the Colonies proposed coloiial decentralisation on the British system, as Germany's best model. ' . A MILLIONAIRE'S LOSS. New York, February 19. The country residence of Mrs. Vanderbilt, junr.. at Regan Island, containing sixty rooms, which was built last year at a cost of 2,800,000 dollars, and 'contained priceless paintings and tapestries, bus been destroyed by fire. The fire brigades were unable' to approach the house, owing to the deep snow. RADIUM AND CANCER. New York, February II). Dr. Carrell, in. a report to the Radium Institute oil Beta rays, says that they were considered dangerous but really they are most healing. A machine has been discovered for isolating Hie rays. Dr. Carrell mentioned a case where the use of radium had not cured, but stimulated cancor. NEW SOUTH WALES STOCK RETURNS. Sydney, February 20. The official stock returns show that the number of cuttle in New South Wales on January 1 w"as 2,472,780, a decrease of 150,7113; horses 503,454, a decrease of 2830; sheep 38,222,377, an increase of 180,964. SMALLPOX IN! SYDNEY. Sydney, February 20. There is a ease of smallpox in Sydney. NEW SOUTH WALES POPULATION. Sydney, February 20. The- population of New South' Wales on December 31 last was 1,032,450, an increase for the year of 53,404. MURDER AND SUICIDE. Sydney, February 20. At the inquest on the Boyles no fresh evidence was brought forward, and the verdict was that Boyle shot bis wife and himself. SWELTERING HEAT. Melbourne. February 20. The heat is intense, a temperature of IOS'/v degrees having been recorded in the city. Adelaide, February 20. The iity is sweltering in a temperature ef 108 degrees in the shade. PORT PHILIP HARBOR. Melbourne. February 20. The Harbor Trust Commissioners' scheme is to hand. It involves an expenditure of three million, of which over half a million will be expended during the next three years to meet immediate roiiuirementj.