CABLE NEWS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14340, 3 July 1917, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

lElec. Tel. Copyright— United Press Assn.t [Australian ana N.Z. Cabin Association.) LONDON, July 1. Obituary : Siangan, Bishop of Kerry. The quarter's revenue from customs was £17,710,000, excise £9,114,000, stamps £1.464,000, property and income tax £23,954,000. A baby week, the outcome of a national effort to protect child life, began to-day. The Queen opens a comprehensive exhibition for the purpose of instructing mothers. Lady Plunket has organised a New Zealand section. (Received June 3, 9.5 a.m.) CAPETOWN, July 2. General Hertzog, m a. letter to the Dutch press, hopes the proposed Republican Congres will be abandoned. The abandonment will prove the Nationalists' respect for the feelings of Englishspeaking South Africans, and that suspicions regard the honorable intentions of Nationalists are unfounded. (Router's TeleKiam.i (Received July 3, 8.50 a.m.) VANCOUVER, July 2. An electric observation car on the American side of the Niagara Falls was derailed on Sunday and rolled into the river. Twenty persona were drowned. SYDNEY, July 2. The totalisator revenue is disappointing. Mr Holman estimated the yield nt £200,000 for the current financial, year. It only returned £6346. At the stud sheep sales bidding was brisk. Prices favored buyers. Only a limited number of good merinos was offered. Flock rams are scarce. The top merino ram fetched 320 guineas, arid another ram 310 guineas. MELBOURNE. July 2. New Federal regulations have been issued granting far-reaching concessions and separation allowancees to soldiers and their dependents. The total w-ar pensions granted are 44,994, and the annual liabilities £1,636,799. (Received July 3, 11.40 a.m.) * SYDNEIV. July .3. A strike of boys at Randwick* train - way workshops resulted m the works closing, rendering a thousand imen idJ«. MELBOpRNK. July 3. The Licensing Board is closinor twentytwo hotels at Richmond. South Y&rra, and South Melbourne at the end orf the year. During the year 132.272 irwternitv allowances weT'e granted, involving an expenditure of £661.360.