GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 213, 9 March 1914, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

LOCAL OPTION VOTE IN N.S.W. By Gable Press Association—Copyright I Sydney, March 7. i At the annual meeting of the Licensed Victuallers' Association, the report stated that the local option vole totalled ' 1373,41)2, being (14.8 per cent, of the total voters on the rolls. For continuance the votes numhcral 382,223, an increase of 37,31*2, and for no-license 2411,43"), an ; increase of 23,!)12. ASIATIC! EXCLUSION. Ottawa, .March (i. A Labor Commission in British Colum- I bia recommends the. total exclusion of I Asiatics, because Canada should not ad- ] mit a race which cannot be fully ab- • sorbed. i CROWN PRINCE LIBELLED, j Berlin, March 15. One of the stall' of the Welt-am-Mon- I tag lias been sentenced to six months' imprisonment and the other acquitted ion the charge of libelling the Crown Prince. DR. MAWSON AND THE POLK. Adelaide, March 7. Dr. Mawson will make his first public, announcement of the expedition's scientific discoveries to the meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, to be held in Australia in August. THE NEW HEBRIDES. Melbourne, March 7. MY. Cook, in reply to a question, said it would certainly he satisfactory to Australia if she could undertake to purchase the French rights in the New Hebrides. A MISTAKEN DATE. Sydney, March 7. | The diary of a surgeon on one of : the first fleets has been discovered and > bliows that the lirst Christian service was held in Australia on February 2, 120 years ago, not on January 27, the previously recognised dale. ) THE SMALLPOX SCARE. Sydney, .March 7. There are two eases of small-pox in lite railway camp at Lilyvale. PLAOUE IN lIONOKOXO. Hongkong, March (!. There have been seven deaths from plague. DENTAL OPERATIONS. London, March 15. Correspondents of the Times report curious physical conditions caused by injectious of aovococaine in dental operations. Patients complain of severe 1 spasms in the chest and heart failure.