GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 38, 4 July 1914, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

TO REDUCE CRIMINALITY. Times and Sydney Sun Services. Received 3, 5.35 p.m. London, July 3,

Major Leonard Darwin, in his presidential address at the Eugenic Society, advocated the segregation of confirmed criminals during the period of their fertility as the best way of gradually eliminating crime. Increased periods of detention of habituals would produce immediate social advantages.

SOLDIERS' UNIFORMS. Received 3, 5.35 p.m. Paris, .Tuly 3. As a result of four years' experimenting, the uniform of loot regiments is to be made of blue-grey material, and will cost two millions.

AMERICAN TRADE METHODS. Received 3, 5.35 p.m. Paris, July 3. A case before the courts reveals that the American Customs authorities have an espionage agency installed in the centre of the city, 'where the value of exports to America is secretly checked.

BATTLE ON A TRAIN. New York, July 2. In a battle in the aisle of a chair car on the Oregon-Washington ruilroiv.l, the deputy-sheriff, who was a passenger, killed one of three robbers and wounded another. The deputy-sheriff was himself injured. The wounded bandit and his companion escaped after ransacking the express and robbing a third of the passengers.

PROGRESS OF WIIIKLESs.

London. July '2.

Mr. Godfrey Isaacs said that the Marconi departmental bea.ts were endeavoring to arrange for press cables between Canada and England at a halfpenny a word.

EMPRESS OF IRELAND VICTIMS. Ottawa. -Inly •>. The Canadian Pacific- Railway Company has purchased a plot of ground at Rimousky, overlooking the St. Lawrence, for tiie burial of nuiilentilied victims of the Empress of Ireland disaster. Vessels are still engaged in the search for bodies. Those lately recovered cannot l)o identified. SHEEP IX AUSTRALIA. Received 3, 8.40 |>.m. Sydney, July 3. Speaking at the official opening of the Sheep Show, the Minister of Agriculture stated that the sheep in New South Wales at the end of 1013 numbered 30,843,000, an increase of 750,001) . The president of the Sheep-breeder-.' Association referred to the growing disposition to replace merinos with crossbreds. The number of erosshreds .'ad greatly increased in the past few years.