GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume xxxii, Issue 8374, 22 May 1911, Page 1

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Per Press Association—Copyright,

LONDON, May 20. Tefi thousand three hundred persons are liable to siipcrtax, their incomes aggregating one hundred and thirty millions annually.

Lord Curzon, speaking at a conference of Conservative clubs, declared that if the Parliament Bill passed it would eventually be wiped from the Statute-book as an ugly smudge. Mr Martin Donohoo, the "Daily Chronicle correspondent at Rome, reports that there is a severe censorship of news respecting the Albanian expedition. The Government has decided to prosecute the leaders, including Garibaldi. . •

Diamonds to the value of two million sterling are being exhibited in the South African building at the Festival of Empire. Extraordinary precautions have been takeri for their safe keeping. The door of the safe in which they are lodged weighs two and a half tons.

At the annual meeting of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, the Hon. Stephen Coleridge secured the passing of a resolution calling On Earl Oromer to resign the vice-presidency because ho is president of the Research Defence Society, upholding vivisection. Sir Wilfrid Laurier, with Sir F. W. Borden, Canadian Minister of Militia, and the Hon. L: Brodeur, Minister of Marine, has arrived at Liverpool. OTTAWA, May 20.

The Canadian Navy, as far as possible, will be of Canadian manufacture PARIS, Myy 20.

The Senate has empowered women to hold magisterial enquiries prior to the trial of youthful offenders under thirieon.

CALCUTTA, May 20. The deaths from plague at Bombay during the week numbered 21,249.