CABLE NEWS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14246, 14 March 1917, Page 5

CABLE NEWS.

I ! (Elec. Tel. Copyright— United Press Assn.) tAustrallan and N.Z. Gable Association.) (Received Mareli 14^10.35 a.m.) - LONJ>^N, March 13. The Duchess of CohhaugUt passed a better night, but there is still anxiety as to her condition. . : : .'SY-D^gY, Mjyrch 13. ! Fire destroyed iff Wen" > business premises at NaiTabedn; The damage is estimated at £40,000." . V-' . Sir Ernest Shack'leton '/was accorded a civjc reception at the" town; Hall, and lectures to-morrow hight ill aid of Captain Mclntosh's,. window;. ...■», (Received Alarch 14, 10.26. *.m.) ! . :.■: §YD^EY, M«wofe k The Goveriiment has ann<H»«W)ed . that there wi|l^^ no retrenchment m the public aervijje." „.:-...,..,.*... . i The Methodist Coofereus^ carried a motion . urging tj»e of an Anti-Sho«t|ng .<«i jthe lines of the New Zealand reguWtftotf, i i • K -.«*,mi&OWßßM ii Mßxch 14.- • In th^HousA^f.^Repj^entafcives. durmg a- debate on the tariff* Validation Bill, J)r Maloiiey i said lie, < hoped ;Mt Hughes would , protect > the .country against the -importation of: wicked ex-travaganoea-in non-«e»ential«i . I