GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Mataura Ensign, 20 July 1914, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

SALE OF BREAD BY WEICHT. ; HI KLECTUIO TELEGRAPH COPYRIGHT. f TIMES AND 6YIVNKY SDN SERVICES. 1 LONDON, July IS." 1 Tile Select Committee appointed to inquire into the matter of short weights reports that upon the whole the retail trade is being honestly conducted. A certain number of traders used ten wrappers which were unnecessarily heavy, the weight greatly increasing the percentage of tare and -diminishing the 1 n«t. The committee recommends that bread bo sold by weight only. MINISTERS AS JOURNALISTS. LONDON, July 18. The Wesleyan Conference sympathetically received an appeal from the Institute of Journalists against the unfair con/petition of ministers who reported for the daily press. A committee 1 was appointed to investigate the complaint., NEW YORK TRACEDY. NKW YORK. July 17. Mrs Carmen has been indicted for manslaughter in the first degree of a lady patient who was found dead the surgery of her husband, a fashionable physician. Her friends have offered hail to the extent of half a million dollars, SOUDAN COTTON-CROW INC. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH COPYRIGHT. PER DNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. LONDON, July 11. The Soudan ,-Loan Bill was read a third time in the House of Commons. The House of Commons in April, ISII3. adopted a resolution guaranteeing 3S nor centum interest on the Soudan cotton-growing loan of £3,(XX),000. HEAT WAVE IN THE STATES. NKW YORK, July IS. The heat wave lias caused two deaths in New York, six deaths in Philadelphia and .several in Boston. ■ Scores of people are prostrated. VENEREAL DISEASES. LONDON, July IS. A national Council for Combating Venereal Diseases comjjosed of representatives of the medical profession and the general public is beuig formed. ECHO OF MINE DISASTER. Received Julv '2O. 8.30 a.m. LONDON, July]!). Edward Shaw was lined £2l and 20 guineas costs for broaches of the mine regulations. The charges against the company were dismissed. The Home Ol'liee in May issued summonses against Edward Shaw, manager ; of the Senghenydd mine, where a dis- . aster involving much loss of life oc- « em-red some months ago, for negligence ' in connection- with safety lamps, regis- ' nation of the temperature, and failure i to provide means for reversing the. air • current ; also for failure to prevent dust '; accumulating. ! ' (j WESLEYANS AND BOXING. i r LONDON. July 18. I; The Wesleyan Conference at Leeds j j considered that more immoral women ? , attend fights thaiv men. The clergy *j denied the recognition of a separate > standard for morals. Rii'ht-thinking > people knew no difference between the 5 sexes in the moral code.