GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 18, 9 June 1914, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES.

SMALL-POX IX LANCASHIRE By Cable—-Press Association—Copyright London, June 7. Outbreaks of small-pox in some Lancashire toiwns have been found to have originated from bales of Mexican cotton. LABOR COURT WANTED. London, June 7. The Dockers' Conference, at Swansea, carried a resolution ini favor of tlie creation of a 'Labor Court, with judges especially qualified to deal with the labor laws. A GREAT NAVAL REVIEW. London, dune 7. Four hundred vessels will participate in the Spithead Review on July l&th, which will be a wjcord number. AU6TRAMAN AVERAGE WAGE. Melbourne, June 8. The Government Statistician reports tliat the distribution of wages paid to employees in manufacturing industries shows that the average wage of <tlu? men is 4!)s 3d per week. A LABORITE LIBEiLLED. Pretoria, June 7. A mcmlber of the Railwayman's Society recovered! £SOO damages against Poutsma (one lof the deported l Labor•ites) and a printer for libel in the so ciety'a Gazette. JAPANESE COMBINE DENIED. Tokio, June 7. Tlhe reported proposal to form a shipping amalgamation of various Japanese lines is denied. HURiRICANE IN THE ISLANDS. Sydney, June 8. A hurricane, accompanied by a tidfexl wave, swept the ToKelau Group recently. The islands were devastated and ■ four lives were lost. j