GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Mataura Ensign, 26 January 1914, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

SPORTING ADVERTISEMENTS. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH COPYRIGHT PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. Received January 26, 9.15 a.m. LONDON, Jan. 26. The Newspaper Sporting Advertisements .Control Association has condemned in its present form the Betting Inducements Bill which Mr H. K. Newton, H.P., is re-introducing. Lord Lonsdale has written to the Association supporting the suppression of tipsters' and bookmakers' circulars. He did not, he said, favor the stopping of all bookmakers' advertisements in the newspapers. ARISTOCRATS IN TROUBLE. Received January 26, 9.15 a.m. PARdS, Jan. 25. As the outcome of a gambling incident at the Jockey Club six aristocratic members have been summoned' before a magistrate. PRISONERS PREFER GAOL. Received January 26, 9.15 a.m. . PARIS, Jan. 26. Owing to the extreme cold' prisoners are refusing to leave the shelter of the g&ol at the expiry of their sentences. FATE OF FLOATINC PALACE. Received January 26, 9.15 a.m. I BERLIN, Jan. 26. The North German-Lloyd steamer Wilhelm der Grosse is to be converted entirely into a third'-class steerage boat. MEXICAN REBELS CAININC. CAPE HAYTTEN, Jan. 24. The .rebels captured Gonives, having a population of 10.000. Practically the entire north-western portion of the island is under rebel control. A severe battle was fought round Saint Marc, but the result is uriknown. FRENCH DIPLOMAT SHOT. TANGIER, Jan. 21, M. Valdsome, who is the French ViceConsul, was giving a party, but, finding no dinner for his guests, dismissed the cook for drunkenness. The cook fired three shots from a revolver at M. Valdsome, who fell dead in a guest's arms. GOETHALS OF PANAMA. NEW YORK, Jan. 24. Cd-onel Goethals has promised to be* come the head of the New York police after tne Panama Canal is finished, if the President allows him to retire and he is given absolute control. The President is surprised at the announcement, stating that he intended Colonel Goetliafe to become the first Governor of the canal zone. BRITISH SHIPPING. , LONDON ,7 an. 21. Six hundred and forty-one -steamers and 47 sailers, with, a tonnage respectively of 1,919,578 and 12,575 , were J/52 111 United Kingdom in J['l3- Of these 78 1-3 per cent, ure on the United Kingdom's register. The output of other countries was 1062 merchantmen, with a of 1,400,/ 20. "