GENERAL CABLES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1655, 22 October 1919, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

By Electric Telegraph. -Copyright. Australian-New Zealand Cabin Ass >ciatioi

LONPON, Oct. 20. During the inquiry into her dismissal Miss Douglas Pennant said that young women at Hurst Park camp were allowed out improperly. They were taken for joy rides to London in Government motor cars and returned drunk in tho early hours of the morning. The Bradfield market is firm and buoyant. Quotations are harder for both present and future deliveries, but the tepmakers are not seeking business. Arrivals at Panama, Port Albany from Auckland; Athenio and Matatua from Wellington. MELBOURNE, Oct. 21. . Jellicoe's report recommends the expenditure of seven millions to place Australia in a reasonable state of naval defence. NEW YORK, Oct. 20. The New York World's Washington correspondent learns that a British corporation has secured a contract to supply extensive quantities of aeroplanes and hunpars. _ and to construct aircraft works for the Chinese Government. The corporation will float 45 million dollars in bonds. CAPETOWN, Oct. 20.

The Union Castle liner. Berwick Castle, rear lied Mombasa on Wednesday with her coal bunkers on fire. The vessel was beached. The fore part is completely* gutted, and as the fire !;pre.".d aft, operations have been abandoned temporarily. The pasengcrs were landed, and there were no casualties. PARIS, Oct. 20.

Doctor Orticion, who has been carrying out investigations at Ihe Pasteur Institute, concludes that influenza is due to an invisible infiltrating virus, wherein visible microbes, like proiffcr bacillus, play onl.y a secondary role. Furthermore, human influenza differs from bubonic plague, but assimilated to a certain number of animal epozectics is like a plague attacking horses, pigs and game.

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