GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 21, 13 June 1914, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

DUKE Of ARGYLL'S WILL. ' By Cable—Press -lssociation —Copyright London, June 11. The Duke of Argyll's will left Princws (Louists a. luc interest in tine personal estate and landed estates over which lie iliad free power of disposal. TIIB -COLOR PROBLEM. Ottawa, June 11. Twenty-two Hindus, former residents of Canada, who were on 'board the Komogata Maru, luavo bee;; permitted to land. A FUTILE RESOLUTION. London, .June 11. The Peace Conference passed a resolution in support of those struggling for the repeal of the compulsory aysI tem in Australia.

A WELL DESERVED 'SENTENCE. London, June 11. . William Maoris was sentenced to fif-1 teen months' imprisonment and a flogging for living on the iininioinal earnings o! a woman. , On toearing the sentence he screamed and fainted. MOTOR-OAR RACING. (London, June 11. K. Lee Guinness, in a Sunbeam motor car, won the International Tourist Tropihy in >bhe Me of Mum. The six 'hundred miles weie covered in lOhr. B7min. 49se>o. Reicken, in a Minerva, was second in lOhr, 57min. 38sec, and Miolon), also in a Minerva, third, in llhr. 22min. 20sec. '

TINNED MEAT CONDEMNED. Londlon, June 11. Two thousand one ihuiulred and fortythree tins of New South Wiles panned beef have been condemned at Bristol. The inspector found no. trace of defective canning. He considers title meat not properly sterile when canned. THE CANADIAN LOAN. 'London , June 11. The underwriters receive 88 per cent, of the Canadian loan. THE AMERICA CUP. New York, June 11. Resolute won on her time allowance by lmin. 16sec. new south wales vital STATISTICS. Sydney, June 11. . The population of New South Wales at the end of 1913 totalled: 1,832,450, an increase for the year of 63,494. The birth-rate wins 21.81 per thousand, which ts 2.6 per cent above the decennial average. The death-rate was 10.91, the highest since 1903.

ENGINEER LO9T OVERBOARD. .Suva, Juime 11. ] The John Williams, from the Elliot) Islands, reports missing A. J. Spencer, an Australian, second engineer, on Wednesday morning. It was a roughi sea and it was impossible to search for him. FRENCH SCIENTIFIC EXPEDI'i lON. Perth, June 11. The schooner, La Casieuse, which is under engagement to the French Government for three years' scientific, expedition in the Pacific, lias arrived from Kerguelen Island, where *'lie canned out extensive researches. 'NEW SOUTH WALES CAUCUS. Sydney, June 12. The State caucus, at a lengthy sitting, approved the Ministerial programme. Apparently tlio threatened split in the ranks has been amicably settled.