CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 1428, 28 February 1911, Page 4

CABLE NEWS.

BY ELEOTBIC TEIiEGBAPH —OOPYBIGHT. (.PEB PEEBS ASSOCIATION.) THE SPREADING OF SMALL-POX. London, February 27. Thirteen additional' cases of smallpox are reported, including one at Bethnal Green. TRADE UNIONISM AND SICK BENEFITS. The Government propose to exclude Trades Unions irom the State scheme dealing with sickness and invalidity on the ground that those providing for sick benefits should treat all funds as available for trade defence purposes in the event of strikes and lockouts. THE FELINE 'FLU. There is a curious -influenza epidemic amongst cats in the South of England. The animals recover under veterinary surgeons' treatment, but otherwise succumb wholesale. Sixteen died at one farm in Kent. FOR CLERICAL WORKERS. Sydney, February 27. At a meeting of clerks a letter was read from the Hon. W. S. Beeby, New South Wales Minister of Labour, which stated that the Government intended to place clerical workers in exactly the same position as employees in other occupations as far as industrial legislation is concerned. VALUABLE BEQUESTS BY A PEASANT'S SON. Paris, February 27. Loutreuil, a French contractor in Russia, and a son of a peasant, has bequeathed £100,000 to the Academy of Science, £4000 to the Pasteur Institute and £40,000 for Scientific Research.