GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 17, 20 January 1914, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

The Admiralty has ordered three dirigibles -~ . „,. - „,. 1-■,';."C. ; . * M. liemire'has resigned from" the vicepresidency of the French Republic." *~ Proceeding haye been withdrawn in which a bookmaker named. Dey. sued R. S. Sievier -for'libel; -~--■ — . According to a iSlun" special cable, experts, predict that the prices of imported meat will drop.in the near future owing to the large cargoes afloat. - ' , • ~ The Associated Chambers of Commerce .hare privately-approached -Mr -Harcourt (Colonial Secretary) and"asked him to induce those dominions giving preference to Great Britain*to place their preference schedules in their tariffs on a,uniform basis (says a-"Times-Sydney Sun" cable-). Following'on the recent fire at-Dew- _ hurst's training- stable, in Ireland, comes news of another fire at another stable owned by the ; trainer at Clonsilla, to which the horses saved from the previ- ' ous-fire had-been.removed. ' A valuable hunter was incinerated. The act is attributed to incendiarism. . An Arab fireman, with -small .pox was aboard the French if mail, steamer Cale-: donian from Noumea to Marseilles which called at Sydney, but as the disease takes 12 days to develop, he "evidently contracted , it in New Caledonia.. Necessary precautions, were adopted. ~... .....