GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 16, 19 January 1914, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Mr Asquith,. -who ■ "has '*•Abeeri making-'abroad;" isnow on J 'liis way Home again. '"*" """"' i-zi-.'-'z- ■ ' Mr A. F. vVilding, the New Zaalander, has become a director of the Continental Motor-tyre "Companjv. *"to a cablerfrom liondonj, „ . , „-.£.?;.,.: ._•; ■ Tie Cunard liner Lnsitania has saved the crew, - numbering "■ eight, itV the schooner" Mayflower, was burnedoff the'jeoast of. Maine.: ■' ■■.-'I--.. l;-u .The. 'death, is announced of "Sir John Duncan,.of Cardiff, a well knowriWeteh journalist, who took s. considerable interest in Jedueational,matters; _, : .-:, : The , Prussian-Treasury has issued a. loan of £20,000,000 V per; cant; Of this amount £17,500,000T will be offered to the public'iiitSiarch' at iSli 7,1'.-u ' In a fire which 1 oceuiTeaVat'Dewhurst's training; establishment in Ireland, 15 xaeebprses. were rescued, but,Mr Dudley's steeplebhaaer Swallowhawk;.' was. incinerated. •_■■-;-:■■'/. '-"".•...■■. '• '''•"'■ Zi ■ - liord is great prostration lollowing an operation for the removal of a cataract from the ieye.. -His condition is causing considerable aiSiefy. ■"■■'~"' . :'\L .- : *.'! The first white woman to become a , Geisha girl, an English woman, has been licensed to appear in the Yokohama tea gardens. She was formerly a teacher in the service-of ■■ the-Governor-General of Oorca, and is an accomplished musician.