General Cables

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 50, 20 July 1914, Page 5

General Cables

LONDON BUILDING STRIKE. [!y Garble.—i'ress Association. —Copyright Received 18, 5.5 p.m. London, July 18. Nineteen London plumbers have accepted the master builders' terms. COM BATTING 'VENEREAL DISEASE. Received IS, 5.5 p.m. London, July 17. A National Council for the combatting of venereal diseases, composed of representatives of the. medical profession and the general public, is being formed. WESLEYAN FOREIGN MISSIONS. Received 18, 5.5 p.m. London, July 17. The Wcsleyan Foreign Mission Centenary Fund has been completed :it .E-283,499. LUCKY NEW ZEALANDERS. Received 18, 5.5 p.m. London, July 17. Captain Halsey is entertaining twenty Maorilandevs aboard 11.M.5. New Zealand for the great review at Spithead. THE IUSSEY DIVORCE. Received 18, 5.5 p.m. London, July 17. The Hissey petition was dismissed, the jury finding that neither had committed adultery. THE SURGERY MURDER. Times and Sydney Sun Services. Received 1!), 5.5 p.m. New York, July 18. Mrs. Carman has been indicted for manslaughter in the first degree. Her friends offered bail up to half a million dollars. COTTON INDUSTRY SLACK. Times and Sydney Sun Services. Received 19, 5-5 p.m. London, July 18. There is a world-wide slackening off in cotton factories. The American section of the Federation has deided to slow down until the end of September. PRESS v. PULPIT. Times and Sydney Sun Servies. Received 19, 5.30 p.m. London, July 18. The Wesleyan Conference sympathetically received an appeal from the Institute of Journalists against the unfair competition by ministers who reported for the daily Press, and a committee was' appointed to investigate the complaint. TRICKS OF TIIK TRADE. Times and Sydney Sun Services. Received 18, 5.30 p.m. London, July 18. The Select Committee which is enquiring into the matter of short weight reports upon the whole retail trade as being honestly conducted." A certain number of traders used tea wrappers unnecessarily heavy, their weight greatly increasing the percentage of tare and diminishing the net weight. The committee recommends that bread should be sold by weight only. A FATAL HEAT WAVE. Received 19, 5.5 p.m. . New York, July 18. The heat wave caused two deaths at New York, six deaths at Philadelphia, and several at Boston, besides which scores of people were prostrated. WHITE SLAVE TRAFFIC. Received 20, 12.25 a.m. Melbourne, July 19. A Federal proclamation ilias been issued including white slavery in the list of international extraditional offences.