GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 204, 5 February 1915, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

"A MISERABLE, SORDID QUAKRBV liy Cable—Press Association—Copyright London, February 3. The limes, in a leader, referring t< the coal trouble, says the public will bi exasperated with botih aide* if they sac rifice the national cause to a miser able, gordid quarrel. The amount in volved i» a trifling sum, and the own crs conceded an advance. TBOLBLF, IN THE ISLANDS. Sydney, February 3. The Kulamiangra, from t/he Solomons reports that trouble hat broken out .pmong the native* at Ysabel Island. Details are unavailable. THE NAIRNSHIRE. London, February 3. Seven tons of the meal on the Nairnshire were destroyed. SMALLPOX ON A STEAMER. Fremantle, February 4. Tha steamer Knight Templar, which has arrived from Calcutta, reported the death of Captain Jones from smallpox |en route. The vessel has been quarantined. PREVALENCE OF HEAT WAVE. Sydney, February 4. The heat wave continues inland. WhitecHffs, with a temperature of 117 degrees, topped the record. There were many other high reco>*». LEGITIMACY OF CHILD UPHELD. London, February S. Judgment in the Slingsby case upholds the child's legitimacy. The judge said he had grave reason for thinking that detectives were employed before the child's birth. He considered the story of the substitution of another child untrue. [Mrs. Slingsby, the wife of the heir to a large Yorkshire estate, was living with her husband in Canada, but went to San Francisco befoTe the birth of her child. It was alleged that the child was born dead and that she advertised for another baby, whom she adopted and passed off as her own.]