NEWS BY CABLE.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXV, Issue 16568, 4 June 1914, Page 7

NEWS BY CABLE.

"Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services. GIFT TO EMPLOYEES. NEW YORK, June 2. Celebrating its hundred and twentyfifth anniversary, a Methodist boot concern presented each of its one thousand employees with an. insurance policy equal to a year's salary, the amount aggregating a million dollars. PILGRIMS AT LOURDES. PARIS, June 2. Lonrdes is crowded with pilgrims. No special miracles were worked in connection with the procession of the Sacrament, but there is an expression on every face of joy, transcending all pain., A priest is present who, until he visited tho 6hrine in 1912, was paralysed in both legs. RESTRAINT OF TRADE. WASHINGTON, June 2. The House of Representatives adopted an amendment to the Anti-Trust Bill for the exemption of labour unions from prosecution in case of organised restraint of trade. SCARLET FEVER IN A PRISON, v NEW YORK, June 2.

There is an epidemic of scarlet fever in the prison at Auburn. Convicts are affected and isolation is impossible. The outbreak is attributed to infection from wigs used by tho prisoners in theatrical performances. MONGOLIAN INDEPENDENCE. PEKIN, June 3.

Mongolia has given notice to the Ministers of the Powers of its independence of China. ' Consuls have been sent to Urga to negotiate treaties of peace and friendship.. '