GENERAL CABLES.
A CANCER TUi.Uui ui^Si^l/. By Cable -Press, A«,uc:;ii.iin!- (ujn'riShi, j London, April :!11. ! Dr. K l'\ Bashford, duectur of Uie Imperial Cancer, Ucseiuv.i It'iind, contradicts the tlioory that people residing in houses previously occupied by cancer cases are likely to contract the disease. BRITISH INSURANCE ACT. London, April 30. The Daily Telegraph predicts that the Budget ia likely to announce important changes in the Insurance Act, including an increase of the maternity 'benefit to 10s, from 7s 6d weekly during incapacity CASTE IN .INDIA. London, April 30. Sir George Mac Alpine, addressing the Baptist Mission Society, emphasised the fact that caste in India was disappearing. A learned Indian had declared that it would not last beyond another decade. Sir George Mac Alpine added that when caste had gone there would be. a great influx into the Christian Church. RAILWAY ELECTRIFICATION. Melbourne, May 1. The Railway Commissioners have let a contract for £25.0,121 for the supply of ©ableg in connection with the electrification of the city railways. SMALLPOX. Sydney, May I. There are two smallpox cases in the citj.
ALLEGED CONSUMPTION CURE.
_ ■.. Sydney, May 1. , Dr. Paget, of Westralia, will remain m Sydney to test his consumption cure.
STATE REVENUE 'BOOMING. . Sydney, May 1. inc btate revenue js booming. The return! for ten months of the financial year ghow an increase of f1,2G2,871
FIGHTING IN SOMAULAND. ! London, April 50. . Advices from Aden state that the Hadryuni and Ogaden tribesmen ambushed and killed several hundreds of the Somaliland Mullah's followers in the Haund district.
CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY. T . ■ ' , London, April 30. Last years income of the Church Mis' sionary Society exceeded £500,000
A DISASTROUS STORM. ~ , ' Ottawa, April 30. ine eoal schooner Jamicson and crew of seven is believed to have been lost in the late storm. A number of small craft were also lost. The total deathroll u now believed to reach thirty
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 283, 2 May 1914, Page 2
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