CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9757, 24 March 1914, Page 5

CABLE NEWS.

(By Electric Tilegraph—Copyright.) (Per Pris* Association.) THE STRAPHANGER. SYDNEY, March 23. Tho tram way men are commencing a. crusade against "strapping." They contend that it. interferes with the proper discharge of their duties. CANNIBALISM IN NEW HEBRIDES. The steamer Maknmoor brings news that the natives in the New Hebrides are very restless, especially on Malekula Island, where early in the month seven native missionary teachers were killed and eaten by a tribe known as "The Big Nabus." Natives also raided and burnt a store kept by an Englishman named Farroll, who, with hie wife, escaped to Walla Island. DRINK BILL FOR UNITED KINGDOM. LONDON, March 21. The sum of £166.681,000 was spent on drink in the United Kingdom in 1913 an increase of £5,000.000; but, the per capita consumption decreased, ' oompared with the previous period. [The total for 19.12 was £161.553,330; compered with £162,797.229 in 1911.J THE BALKANS. CONSTANTINOPLE, March 22. At Colonel voii Sanders' instance, Enver Bey has ordered the May manoeuvres of tho Turkish army to be held near the Russian frontier, comprising 150,000 infantry, 20,000 cavalry, and 500 guns. BELGRADE, March 22. The Servian authorities are forcibly disarming the population in their new Macedonia territory. Inhabitants are beaten and made to surrender their arms.