GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 38, 4 July 1914, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

REVENUE FROM " TATT'S." i Bj Cable—Press Association—Copyright Hobart, July 3. The Government has raised the stamp duty on Tatt.'s tickets to 3d each, thereby securing a revenue of £12,000. BUILDING IN MELBOURNE. Melbourne, July 3. During last year 7896 buildings were erected in the metropolitan area, a record since the building boom burst. NEWCASTLE MINERS* STRIKE. Sydney, July 3. • Summonses have been issued against j 850 Newcastle miners in connection with | the strike. ! | TASMANIAN REVENUE. ] Hobart, July 3. The Tasmanian revenue is £1,239,829, an increase of £33,040. The railway receipts were £26,679, an increase of £540. ' PREMIER'S SOCIALIST SYMPATHIES Sydney, July 3. Mr. Holman has advised the Labor Council that he is prepared to attach his signature to any petition organised to secure the release of Holland. i THE FEDERAL ELECTIONS.

Melbourne, July 3. Mr. Cook has rectified the date for the issue of writs to July 30.

VERDICT- OF MURDER. Perth, July 3. A verdict of wilful murder has been returned against Frederick Smith, who shot his son during a quarrel. A TRANSPLANTED GLAND. Times and Sydney Sun Services. Paris, July 2. Dr. Voronoff explained to the French Academy of Medicine how grafting a monkey's thyroid gland into a girl of I fourteen had cured cretinism.

INDIAN FAMINE RELIEF. Delhi, July 2. The Indian Government has granted sixty lacs of rupees (£400,000) to aid the famine-stricken area. REVERSING THE POSITION. London, July 2. Farmers in North Essex who were prooeeding to the hayfields were stoned by striking farm laborers, who subsequently assembled, good - humoredly chaffing the perspiring farmers. HOT WEATHER IN ENGLAND. London, July 2. Some pigs at the Shrewsbury Show died of heat. Fruit-pickers are resting in the daytime and working by moonlight. Blocks of ice are provided in the porticoes of theatres.

ARMY RECRUITING.

London, July 2. Tn the House of Commons, Mr. Asquith, in reply to a question, said the Government was endeavoring to stimulate recruiting by giving publicity to the advantages of army life. The number of recruits since January had beeu increasing.