GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 252, 23 March 1914, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

NEW ANAESTHETIC. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright London, March 20. Interesting experiments are being conducted in urethane, an anaestlieic hvpodcrmically administered. It does "not cause heart failure or after sickness. Its minimum period of insensibility is six hours. This is a disadvantage, but it is impossible to shorten it. Experiments are heing conducted on animals. SWINE FEVER. London, March 20. Mr. W. Runciman, President of the Board of Agriculture, announced that experiments are being conducted in treating swine fever with injections of serum. A hundred casese were under obi servation. SYDNEY TRAMS. 1 Sydney, March 20. The Premier supplied the Assembly with a statement of the Railway Commissioners, showing the tramway returns for the year 1012-13. Earnings were £1,754,566, expenditure £1,572,190, interest on capital invested £214,832, leaving a deficit of £32,456. The estimated deficit for the year ending June 30 was £01,038. THE SCIENCE OF HYPNOTISM. London, March 20. Dr. Erskine announces the cure of rheumatoid arthritis by hypnotic suggestion. GOOD PRICES FOR FURS.

London, March 20. Twelve million skins ere being sold at the London spring fur sales, including four and a half million musquash (or musk rat) skins. A single silver fox skin sold for £440 sterling. . CANADIAN TRADE RECORD. Ottawa, March 20. Despite the monetary stringency Canadian trade totalled a thousand million dollars for the year ending February, the greatest in Canadian history. A ROYAL DIVORCE. Stockholm, March 20. The Council of State has declared Prince William's marriage dissolved. A GERMAN SPY. Paris, March 20. The Journal states that the (Herman officer Von Staiurer, employed by the Triple Alliance, visited an English girl's residence at Constanlinoolc, leaving a portfolio, which the police secured. Von Stanger committed suicide. MIXERS SWALLOWED UP ALIVE. New York, March 20. Two miners engaged working in a shanty on a mountain side near a colliery in PottsvifTe, Pennsylvania, dsappeared through the earth inside the building, being engulohed in a subsidence. It is believed they were swallowed up alive, descending five hundred feet in abandoned works.

WELCOME RAINS. Sydnev, March 21. The long dry spoil has been broken by good rains in the eastern portions ol the State. There was a terrible downpour in the city at midnight, and the streets were flooded. THE CREEK NAVY. Athens, March 20. The Minister of Murine has announced that the navy will be strengthened by three battleships, three armoured cruisers, and a proportionate number of light units.