GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14691, 27 May 1911, Page 7

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

FROM THE AUSTRALIAN PAPERS,

FRANCE'S LOW BIRTH-RATE. Referring to the low birth-rate in France, Dr. Bertillon, the famous anthropologist, says that there is no reason, psychological or economic, why France should not increase as other nations, and no motive for her resigning 'herself shamefully to race suicide. BOGUS INSURANCE COMPANY. Charles Jennings, an enterprising individual who realised £20,000 by floating bogus insurance company stock, was in Vancouver sentenced to five years' impri-r sonment last week. • ' AERO-TAXI SERVICE. The first aero-taxi will be put into service in Switzerland. It is intended to carry passengers on short flights into th« country at. fixed rates per kilometre. PRINCE OF WALES AND KAISER'S DAUGHTER. It is freely reported in Court circles that the Kaiser's visit to England was made not only for the purpose of attending the unveiling of the Queen Victoria Memorial, but also to enable him to discuss the possibility of an engagement between his daughter, Princess Victoria Louise, and the Prince of Wales.

DOCTOR'S QUEER QUEST. The workmen who for months past' ha been excavating mud in the River Wye, at Chapstow, have practically uncovered the limbers beneath which Dr. Owen hopes to find certain relics that will prove his contention that Bacon was the author of the works attributed to Shakespere. The opinion grows, however, that the laborious undertaking on which Br. Owen and his men have been engaged so long is about to be abandoned.