GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 14 October 1922, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

UNREST IN INDIA. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Delhi, October 12. Non-co-operators at Madras have adopted a novel method of picketing foreign cloth shops. They lay on the road and challenge Would-be purchasers of cloth to walk over them. Following excesses resulting from the action of the authorities to meet the situation the leaders of the non-co-operators ordered the cessation of picketing. THE EX-KAISER’S WARDROBE. Amsterdam, October 12. There was great excitement at Doorn at the arrival from Berlin of a dozen heavy trunks, supposed to contain the ex-Kaieer’s Court uniforms, and probably the crown for the new so-called Queen of Prussia. The arrival of the baggage revived rumours that the wedding will be followed by a private coronation, at which the Prussian royal title will be conferred on Hermine, in the presence of a few selected members of the old Imperial Court. A VIKING’S WARSHIP. London. October 12. The Copenhagen correspondent of the Daily Mail states that a Viking’s warihip, dating from 300 years before Christ, the oldest ever found, has been discovered in a bog almost intact. It Jb being conveyed to a museum. AUSTRIAN FINANCES. Rome, October 12. Signor Beneduee, ex-member of the Cabinet, has been selected as controller >f Austrian finances under the League jx Nations’ scheme. ITALIAN FASCIST!. London, October 12. The Napiee correspondent of the Daily Mail states that 35,000 fully armed Fascisti are mustering at Naples on October 25. They are arriving by jpecial trains under the leadership of Signor Mussolini, after which all will proceed to Rome in order to be prelent at the re-opening of Parliament, which they have ordered must be dissolved. A SOMME MEMORIAL. Paris, October 11. Mr. Massey, in a letter to the committee for the erection of a Pantheon commemorating the Allied dead in the Somme campaigns, to be placed outside Amiens, accepts the position as one of the high patrons. He says he will be jlad to hear how the great project progresses. SOUTH AUSTRALIA’S FINANCE Adelaide, October 13. In the Assembly Mr. Ritchie (Treasurer), delivering the Budget, said the revenue of the State was estimated at £8,312,000 and the expenditure at £8,310,000. There was no intention to increase taxation, but the continuance of the 25 per cent, supertax on all incomes would be proposed. The season’s wheat crop was estimated at 32,500,006 bushels, hgainet gd,946,000 bushels harvested last year.