GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 August 1915, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

NEW SOUTH WALES TRADE. Sydney, July i. New South Wales trade imports decreased .C 15,078,033, and exports £7,151,155, compared with last year,' principally in wool, wheat and flour. HORSE SALES. Sydney, August 2. At the Clydesdale >iorse sales bidding was spiritless and prices low. The top price was 151) guineas for E. Hull's New Zealand colt (iencral Douglas, the taker of a second prize nt the show. A few other New Zealand colts ranged from 10 to 72 guineas. Yol'Nti lIAN' KILLS HIS FATIiEII. Sydney, August 2. A young man mnwttr John Griffith': has been remanded on a charge of murdering his lather, who was found in his home at l'rymount, with several fingers severed, his head .split, and a sword alongside. The police gave evidence that as a result of trouble between his lather and mother the son cautioned the fath'-r. who, on Saturday, again insulted the mother. The sou, seizing the sword, which the father had got in the Boxer war, inflicted fatal injuries. THE HAYTI TROUBLE. Washington, August 2. France a.-kcil America 'for permission before lauding troops at Port-au-Prince to protect the French Consulate. American diplomats interpret the request as an indication that France adheres to the Monroe Doctrine, thus giving point lo France's previous request that America should protect French subjects in Mexico. NuRTIIEKN' TEKKITORV. Brisbane, August J. A eitixi-iiK* meeting at Darwin pas,e.l a re-nlntion in favor of the regulation i>f i\ ed prices in the Northern Territory. The meeting also carried a motion '>sscrting that the Northern Territory offered belter scope than any other pail of Australia fur I lie nulionalisation of Die means of production, distribution, and exchange.