CABLES IN BRIEF

Southland Times, Issue 17679, 17 June 1914, Page 6

CABLES IN BRIEF

An airship expedition is contemplated to Somaliland to subdue the Mad .Mullah. The Prussian Year Pooh stales Unit one hundred and thirteen children under fifteen years of age committed suicide in ini 2: ninety-four wore males, acred ten to fifteen years, three being under ten. The President personally leads the international fleet of warships at the formal opening of the Panama Canal. It is proposed to pass the whole fleet through. As the result of a conference the building trade strike at Perth has been settled. The Scottish Miners’ Executive has ordered a reduction in the output throughout Scotland, working oply four days weekly. S6rious rioting has occurred at Butte, in Montana, as the outcome of labour troubles. Unionists who were parading the streets were attacked by “Industrial workers of the world” with wood, stones and other missiles. The disturbance was queued when the rioters thought the troops were coming. Houston. Dixon and Fowler pleaded "uiltv to charges in connection with the John’Bull Derby Sweepstakes. Houston was fined one. hundred pounds, and the others were bound orer. The Canoptic has arrived at Ponta Del-a da in the Azores Islands, from Boston ’ An Italian third-class passenger went suddenly mad and wounded twenty-five passengers with a knife, five seriously- . , ’ A scheme for training as domestics girls leaving school at the age of fourteen years has been adopted by the Metropolitan Association for Befriending Young Servants. London. Special training will be given in domestic economy. Another adult has died as a result of lightning striking trees on Wandsworth Common during the storm. The British Board of Trade Inspected a lifeboat fitted with a hand-driven propellor capable of a speed of six knots. It requires no oars and there is no danger of “crab-catching” in rough water. President Wilson has signed the Canal BUI as passed by the Senate, and agreed to by the House of Representatives. Thert was no ceremony.. Harry Pike, the engineers fitter, who entered Buckingham Palace, was bound over. The King desired that he be treated leniently. Mr Hirst, editor of the Kcononust, in a speech at Liverpool said that the Admiralty ought to realise that arming merchantmen was not worth the candle. It would be a terrible thing for a liner, packed with passengers, to endeavour, with two antique guns, to defend itself against submarines, torpedoes, and cruiSe, The Unionist Committee on Industrial Unfest recommends the establishment of a Department of Labour under a chief commissioner, invested with power to intervene in a strike, and to appoint a board of conciliation. A minimum wage should b© fixed for different kinds of work.