GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 26, 20 June 1914, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

THE PARIS DISASTER. j By Cable—Press Association—Copyright Paris, June 18. Prior to the storm a municipal inspector reported a crack in tlie main sewer and predicted the subsidence. No notice was taken of his, report. There have been six deaths. Three thousand telephones in the city are unworkable, as the result of the .storm. THE HINDU TROUBLE. Vancouver, June 18. The Hindus on the Kamogata Maru hare defied the. captain to pet up steam and move to another anclhoragc. Their attitude indicates that there will be 'trouble if ih-j steamer is ordered to leave. AFTER THE EVICTION. •Sydney, June 19. Miss Edith Walker placed Yttralla »t the disposal of Sir It. Hunro-Fergu-eon. It is understood l that she desires to present the estate to the Government as a permanent home for the GovernorGeneral. A MAD MURDERER. London, June 18. Frederick IT,outoit, wiho killed jhis father and brother on February 21, is insane, and has been placed in an asylum. SUCCESSES AT CAMBRIDGE. "London, Jane 18. Broadhead, New Zealand, obtained a first class and Miss Knaggs (Wellington) a second class in tho modem and mediI eval languages tripos at Cambridge.

VENEREAL, DISEASE'S Times and Sydney Sun Services. ' London, June 18. Dr Skinner, before the Commission on Venereal Diseases, gave evidence on the reduction of the number of cases in the British Army. He said syphilis was a disease mot a divine retribution on sis.. It ought to be treated, not by scourgings, but by every means that modern medical and surgical skill provided.

SYDNEY GALE SUBSIDES. Sydney, June 19. The gale has subsided, but the rain continues.