GENERAL CABLES.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXVII, Issue 10639, 7 May 1913, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES.

■■■ ■■!■■ (ft/i in i'n ■—■. PRINOBS'S MARY.

Sydney Sun Spocial. London, April 30.

Princess Mary, the only daughter of the King and Queen, oelebrated her < 16th birthday yesterday. The princess, who looks younger than her age, was overloaded -with presents.

The Queen has had her daughter educated according to old-time ideals. The Princess oan mend her brothers' socks, bake dainty things for the teatable, and occasionally she takea a turn sit making oheess and butter at Sandringhaaa. Besides possessing these useful aecomplishments, she can swim, ride, drive, dance, cycle and play golf and hookey. The Princess has also learnt shorthand and typewriting, and the King sometimes dictates private letters to her. OBSOLETE NEEDLES. Mr Wheeler, a British subject in Yokohama, has been sentenced to fo*r years' imprisonment on a charge of fraudulent |intent. He is said to have sold knitting needles of an obsolete pattern. Mr Wheeler was representing the Genz Wheeler Co., and he obtained so many orders for knitting needles that deliveries were behindhand, and eventually he was accused of false pretences. His firm complained that the Japanese authorities had acted in a highhanded manner. A SPY'S SENTENCE. A clerk named Kohler, employed at Breslau, Germany, has been sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment for sellinggsecret plans to agents of the French and Russian intelligence departments. Konler had been employed at Breslau for a month at a salary of 15sa week. THE TALLEST BUILDING. President Wilson yesterday opened in New York what is now the tallest building in the world. The new structure, which will be known as the Woolworth Building, rears itself to a height of 750 ft. ASLEEP FOR 77 DAYS. A man named Jean Oobler, living in Cherbourg, the French port, has just awakened in hospital after sleeping for 77 days. He was Bxtremely surprised to find a number of doctors at his [[bedside, and had no idea that he had bBBn asleep more than a few hours. He is in excellent health.

COMMANDER EVA BOOTH. Miss Eva Booth, commander of the Salvation Army in the United States, is reported to be seriously ill afc Cleveland, Ohio. She is suffering from pneumonia, her illness being due to overwork. Commander Eva Booth is the second youngest daughter of the late General Booth. She has successfully commanded the Army forces in America for many years, and under her Fable administration striking progress haa been made. She is recognised as the greatest woman orator in the Army, and by many outside authoiities she is believed to be the greatest in the world. GAOLS TOO COMFORTABLE. Crime in Egypt ia on grade, and Judges and polioe, are discouraged. Juvenile crime has increased fourfold during the last decade, and the reformatories are insufficient to accommodate the youthful offenders, vrho have had to be pul; in the gaols It is noticeable that the growth ia largest m Cairo, and it is suggested that the gaols are too comfortabl* PRICE OW NEWSPAPERS. A writer in the Daily Mail, referring te the reduction in the price of the Times from 3d to 2d, predicts that owing to the constantly growing cost of production the proprietors of halfpenny papers will in the future be compelled, like the Americans, to increase the price of their papers to Id, while tbe penny journals will have to be sold at l^d.

AN UNPOPULAR MINISTER. Madrid, April 26,

An extraordinary outbreak of hostility against a politician was witnessed in Penafiel today npon the arrival there of Senor Juan,.„Minister for the Interior. o'->3i -^ Senor Juan had gone to Penafiel as counsel in a lawsuit, trat,the fact that he was visiting the . town was viewed with suoh disfavour by the working classes that they immediately declared a strike, with the result that all the factories and_ workshops were quitted. !S=l An ugly mob met Senor Junana at the railway station, and jeered and otherwise insulted him, the police having the greatest difficulty in restraining the angry mob f rtfrnjaota of violence. sSlii^S

The Minister, it seems, owes his unpopularity to his firm repression of disorder.

ELECTRICITY'S LATEST USE. U A method of passing drugs by | means of an electric current straight I into the cells of a patient's body \ was explained by Dr. Mcintosh at s yesterday's session of the Nursing p Conference now being held in the | Agricultural Hall. t Dr. Mcintosh said that cocaine had $ b@en introduced in this way for the \ purpose of producing auaethesia, n and"that brilliant lesulfes had been | obtained. | Rheumatism, gout, ulcer, goitre, I and skin affections also had been I successfully treated by the new jj method. p _ i CHEAP [ALBUMEN. 1 Captain R. Muirhead Collins, 1 official secretary to the Common- | wealth in London, is advised that § an. inventor has submitted to the | Chamber of Commerce in Potsdam, f Germany, a method for extracting 1 fronrSthe blood of cattle chemically pnre albumen equal to that which is found in eggs. The inventor also claims to have discovered as well a byproduct in the shape of a dressing for glazing and finishing paper for textile industries. The cost of producing the albumen is £32 a ton, and the market price of the commodity at present is £240 a ton The other product can be ■ turned out at £ls a ton and sold -at £SO a ton. '