GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 169, 23 December 1914, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

AN UNJUSTIFIABLE REMARK. By Cable—iPrcss Association—Copyright Sydney, December 22. Mr Mauson, the New Zca'and Government agent, in a letter to Mie Herald, takes exception to a sentence contained in an article in the Herald commenting on the New Zealand elections to the effect that an Australian is callfd a foreigner in the Dominion ne says: ''Tour statement will be deeply resented by New Zealanders, both those in the Dominion and those resident in Australia, and I for my part must protest by saying it is unjustifiable and a libel on the little country we are all so proud of." THE THAW CASE. Washington, December 21. The United States Oupreme Court has I ordered Thaw to be delivered to the New York State authorities to answer a charge of conspira")' to escape from Matteawan Asylum. Tne decision practically disposes of the extradition problem as between New Hampshire and New York States. The conspiracy in- 1 dictment still requires trial, and it is likely to be another before Thawis incarcerated again. THE TOTALISATOII IN AUSTRALIA. Sydney, December 12 i'"\ ual conference cf the Coin , crcial Travellers' Association passed a resolution in favour of the totalisator as a means of raising hospital funds. THE MISSING ENDEAVOUR. Sydney, December '22. There is no news of the missing Endeavour.