GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 54, 24 July 1914, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

TUADE DEPRESS J OX. By Ca'hle. —Press Association. —Copyright 'London, July 22. Leeds reports a wave of depression in the woollen trade. Bu-inc.ss with Australia and .New yJealand is slow though cheaper cloths are finding a fair market. CANCER NOT INFECTIOUS. London, Ju'ty 22. At a meeting of tJie Imperial Cancer Research Fund, Dr. Bashl'ord, general sr.perintcndint, discussing cancer houses, emphatically affirmed that there was no risk of infection because cases had occurred in them. . NO SUNDAY GOLV. London, July 22. The London County Council has declined to allow Sunday golf on muni eipal courses. WARNING TO EMIGRANTS. London, July 22. The Canadian Immigration Department specially warn* all excepting agriculturists and domestics against going lo Canada. AN ALLFGED LOCK-OUT. Perth, July 23. Tiie Government's prosecution of the timber merchants for closing down in connection with the late strike for compulsory unionism has failed, the Court holding that the employers had good cause for closing, independent of any industrial dispute., IN'OL'JUV INTO LAND DEAL. Sydney, July 23. Parliament passed an amending Bill widening the powers of the judge inijuiring into the ISooraMl land charges to flic full power of a Supreme Court, judge.

POLITICAL AMENITIES. Sydney, July 22. lit the Assembly, -Mr. Wade's amendment, demanding an inquiry into or the withdrawal of Mr. Dolman's charges against tAe Speaker, sind Mr. James' amendment that members of Parliament should not act as land agents, were negatived by. Jo to 35, and the Addross-in-lieply was adopted, ENC.IXEKIiS CEASE WORK. Sydney, July 22. The Amalgamated Engineers' campaign against non-unionists resulted in ninety men in the Colonial Sinjar Works ceasing work. TO KXCLIDK, MAKCAKINE. Sydney, July 22. Mr. O'Callaghan, chief of the dairy branch of the Department of Agriculture, addressing the dairy farmers' conference, urged the prohibition of the manufacture and importation of margarine. X.s.W. HALLWAYS. Sydney, July 2,1. At the L-'avmers' Conference, the Chief Commissioner of Railways presented figures showing that tta revenue since 1893 'had increased 104 per cent., and the mileage run 174 per cent., with proportionate increases in rolling stock and the quantity of traffic carried.