GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 10, 30 May 1914, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

THE WAIMATE. By Cable —Press Association —Copyright London, May 28. Tiro fire on the Waimate has been extinguisihedl. The hemp is much damaged. Fifty Ibales of wool .are scorched. A quantity of worthless cargo has been jettisoned. The vessel will proceed on her voyage tol-morrow. A NATIVE SHOT. Peritili, May 29.

fflwia aborigines attacked! their employer, Hurley, who shot one dead. Details are wilting. THE 44 HOURS WEEK. Syidneyi, May 20. The Building Trades Federation intends to force the question of (the 44 hour week to finality, CHILDISH STUDENTS' PRANKS. Sydney, May 29. Fifty third-year ttiied'ical students were fined £2 each floir singing under the windows of professors diuring commemioriaition week. One was rusticated for -firing cradke* in a lecturc-ioom. (AN EARTH TREMOR. Adelaide, May 29. There was a severe earth tremor at 11 o'clock last night. Houses were 'shaken and people rushed into the Streets, Ibut no damage waa done. OLYMPIC GAMES. Helsingfora May 28. Aa a sequel to the triumphant return of the famous runner Koiahmainen from America tihe Rupsian Gwerniment haa f. decmeed ttat Finns will only b& allowed !• to ,pa>rltieipate in the Olympic Gaines ae { Russians. The Finnish Olympic Committee will probably bo dissolved. HEAT WAVE IN AMERICA. New York May 28. Hie Atlantic State?, Ohio, and the middle Mississippi States report a sweltering'. heat wave and record temperatures. Numerous cases of prostration (have occurred. The temperature is 106 degrees in /the shade and the 'hospitals are filled 'with heat cases. TOE ARGENTINE. Times and Sydney Stan Services Buenos- Aires;, May 28. Tihe Budget reveals continued prosperity. ' There is an increase to three million acres under cultication, and there aire 35,000 miles' of railways. TREATMENT OF CANCER. Timea and Sydtaey Sun Services. Berlin, May 28. Professor Gustav Killifui gave a demonstration before the Royal Society of Medicine of successful diathermy treatment of inoperable cancer of the throat. FRENCH BANK FAILURE. L Paris, May 28. (Henri and Robert Denerafville, bankers, have been arrested for using clients' I stock as security for .their own transactions. Tihe liabilities are half a. million . sterling and the asset/3 £175,000. TUBERCULOSIS, London. May 28. Four London hospital's are trying the ' Spahlinger ibrcaitmlent for tuberculosis and lu,pus. It dloes not interfere with (jlile patients' daily occupations. P. AND O. COMPANY. Lonklon, May £B. If the proposed amalgamation between the P. and O. Company and the ' BnJtrsfh Indlia Company is' confirmed by f the AarehoMers. Lard Tnclicnpe will 1)0 appointed one 'of the managing directors, and it is probable that lie wili evenj tually succeed Sir Thomas Sutherland, the present chairman of the P. and 0. Company. EARTHQUAKES IN CANAL ZONE. New York, May 28. Severe earthquake shocks have occur--1 red at Colon, but nio damage to the canal ' in reported-.