GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 3 November 1921, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

EGYPTIAN COTTON CROP. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Cairo, Nov. 1. The final figures to the middle of the month show that the cotton crop is the lowest recorded. FISHERMEN DROWNED. New York, Nov. 1. Eleven fishermen were drowned when two bots foundered in a storm off the New Jersey coast. FIJI TARIFF INCREASES.

Suva, Nov. 2. A committee of the Legislative Council recommends support for a duty of 2s 6d per ton on coal and an increase on spirits from 20s to 265; an export duty on molasses of £1 per ton. WOODBLOCKS FOR FIREWOOD. London, Nov. 1. A thousand mon. women and children tore up several thousand wooden blocks in a street in Poplar and removed them for firewood. Six men and women were fined £1 each. COTTON PRICES RISING. London, Oct. 31. Reportp recently circulated, by observers of the markets that textile prices, particularly cotton, had reached bottom, foreshadowing a firming tendency, are J supported by the revised price-list issued by Horrockses showing a 10 per cent, increase for cotton cloths compared with August 1. WONDERFUL AERO ENGINE. London, Oct. 31. As the results,, of three years’ experi- | ments the Bristol Company has produced an air-cooled nine-cylinder aeroplane engine of 450 horse-power which occupies two feet of space. Foux* men can lift it. It lias answered tests equivalent to carrying eight persons 10,000 miles at 100 miles an hour. BOY MURDERER CONFESSES. London, Nx>v. 1. Harold Jones pleaded guilty to the murder of the girl Little, at Abcrtillj ery. His confession to a chaplain des- | cribed iiow the mnrdei was perpetrated ifrom a desire to kill. He also confessed that he. killed the girl Burnell. Jones i was sentenced to detention during his , Majesty’s pleasure. . THE THAMES OVERFLOWS. j London. Nov. 1. Owing to the highest tide since 1913 the Thames to-day flooded the lowest streets of Gravesend, where boats were < I used on the promenade. There were [also floods at Woolwich, Greenwich and i Bowbridge. Thousands lined the Embankment, watching the rising water, ■ which percolated, but did not overflow, j the terrace of Parliament. The Greenwich tramways were temporarily suspended, and many houses and offices flooded.