GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXVII, Issue 10661, 2 June 1913, Page 2

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

FROM LATEST FILES. BLACKMAIL BY A BOY. Paris, April 13. A Paris telegraph boy, aged fifteen, was arrested yesterday on a charge of attempted blackmail. He and his comrades at a branch post office had been in the habit of opening telegrams and reading them. In this way the boy learned | of an intrigue t«ut. was f^ iefl f m by a lihtfx'ioit woittHa. demanding £ ( ' n*"-'; pviCP <"•'- M?.\ feUence, but his Jeter fell into %:-A# j handa of the woman's uncl©» Who 1 gave him in charge. The lad con- I fessed, but the woman declined to j prosecute. OEAL SPEECH TO THE DEAF. London, April 14. The dinner of the National Deaf Club waa held on Saturday night at the Counnught Rooms, when 130 deaf members and their friends were present. Mr A. J. Wilson, the president, proposed the toast of the club, speaking by the oral method and not using his fingers at all Every one of the company in he large hall was able to read the speaker's lips and "hear" the whole speech. Mr Allan Brown, the lion, secretary of the club is a printer and an instructor in a large technical school. He works tmtirely among hearing people, and is believed to be the only deaf linotype operator m the country. j THE BOARD SCHOOL VOICE. TEACHING CORRECT SPEECHLIKE MUSIC. j London, April 1-1 I "Lessons in English," a school- j master, discussing- tho "Board! School Voice'' on Saturday, said, j i "should follow the lines of music j lessons, and children should be I ] taught to differentiate between the 1 j right and the wrong pronounciation J j of words in the Fame way that they j i ( are taught to recognise a wrong j | note in piano playing. I "It this method were employed it g would sound the death-knell of the f ■ board school voice, for as time went j on children would realise the ugly I nature of their accent and wrong J pronunciation would become as evi- I dent to them as a musical discord. j "As things ava no man realises | that he possesses what has been well i described as tho board school voice." § BANK OF ENGLAND LOSS. j A VERY UNSATISFACTORY EXPLANATION. | London, April 14. | Much comment has been aroused ] in financial and banking circles by | the curious official explanation | given bv the Bank of England to The Times yesreruay. "The rumours j which have been current for the last s p few days of a serious loss of socuri- f ties from the Bank of England have i now, it is understood, been set at rest. I "Tb.fi loss was commonly a?so- i elated, in and eLsewhere, j with the di*Kpoeu.rance of an oUic;al \ of the ban 1 ", who was crated m cer- J tain quarters to have 'held a most [: responsible position' in one of Us a 7 1 a branches. = "Inquiries made in ouai- S ters have nev/ established too. in- j formation tiiat tiis mystery of the \ boijsd:? is rt an end, that the i official in ha* never occu- J pied more man a subordinate place i in the bank, and that the bondsj themselves have bo; en trace;; and. re- \ covered." § This i= a vprv nnvn,i;isi'actory ex- I planatiou It does not state whether [ tho official has when he | disappeared, or vrhiu the boiuhi were stolen. I