GENERAL CABLES

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 4538, 23 May 1913, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES

Electric Telegraph—Press Association Copyright. London, This Day. Archbishop Clark, of Melbourne, is slowly recovering. Sydney, This Day.

A fire destroyed the factory of Duval and Company, rubber merchants, Paddington. The building, which was in wood and iron, was a two-storeyed structure, and covered an extensive area. Meetings of citizens at West Maitland and Newcastle inaugurated relief funds owing to the distress created by the floods. » THE INDRABARAH. London, Last Night. The Indrabarah has been re-insured at fifty-fivo guineas per cent. THE SOLDIERS’ RIOT’S. Paris, Last Night.

The ringleaders of the soldiers’ demonstrations at Toul and elsewhere are being placed in disciplinary battalions in Algeria. JAPS AND AMERICA. Washington, Last Night. The American Note replying to the Japanese protest asured Japan of the American friendlines and stated that America was auxious to show the world that they would place Japan on an equality with other nations. Only the State’s rights in California were the stumbling block. Officials of the State Department are of opinion that the acute stage of the crisis has been passed. The President. Dr. Wilson, has requested democratic representatives not to make speeches in any wav calculated to influence Japanese feeling. A DRY CAMP. A report of a committee of the Presbyterian Assembly protests against a proposed endeavour of military officers to have camp canteens restored, allegedly because the recent dry camps were marked by misconduct such as disgraced no previous military operations. The report asks the Defence Department thoroughly to inquire before moving in the matter. A statement was made that some of the most responsible officers declared that the camps were never more orderly or better conducted. • MORE FLOODS COMING. Sydney, Last Night. Mr Clement Wragge, #ie weather expert, predicts that within a fortnight an Antarctic disturbance will cause floods in Australia. Then sweeping New Zoalandwards it will, he saw. give the Dominion more fits. SMALL-POX AT SYDNEY. A mombor of the crew of the steamer Bara.long, on which recently there was an outbreak of small-pox, developed suspicious symptoms ill Sydney Hospital. He lias been sent to quarantine.