GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 238, 17 March 1915, Page 8

GENERAL CABLES.

By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. WIFE MURDER CASE, | .Perth, March 10. The charge against Eath. a fanner, who confessed to having killed his wife in a domestic quarrel, was reduced to nianslau„ :ter. He was sentenced to two years' imprisonment without hard labor, the Judge remarking that lie snflcred from hereditary mental weakness and the effects of'liquor. His imprisonment would enable him to he treated. PREFERENTIAL TRADE IN THE EMPIRE. Hollart, March 10. Mr Ashbolt. vice-president of the Chamber of Commerce Congress, said bodies such as ours should endeavour to make it impossible for Germany again to acquire that wealth without which she could never have embarked on the war. In a few years a now generation w'ith no experience of the miseries and cruelty of this war quickly reyert to buying in the cheapest market. Steps cannot be too quickly taken to "prosome form of preferential trading "within the Empire. Referring to the White Australia policy, he said it was a beautiful ideal, but, in his opinion, doomed to be an ideal only. ANARCHY IN MEXICO. TROURLE ASSUMES SERIOUS PROPORTIONS. London, March 15. Mexico City is practically isolated, and the gravity 0 f the situation hag increased. An American citizen has been killed by looters, despite the fact that the ■ tars and Stripes were flying 0 n the louse op Villa is fighting promiscuously m the northern parts. It is reported that the British coalmines at Douglas have been damaged. AMERICA'S SUPINE ATTITUDE DEPLORED. (Times and Sidney Sun Service.) Received March 10, 0.20 p.m. . London, March Hi. The Times a leader, .ays the situation of distracted Mexico lias progressively deteriorated into still more murderous anarchy. At least five p sei ido tioveinments are in existence and several revolutionary; groups besides Villa's Carranza's, and Zapata's. The capital 3 change,! hands in 19J,j, to the accompaniment of executions and'pillage. The United States policy continues one of masterly inactivity, and we see no possibility of improvement so loii" as this is persisted in *