SUN CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 33, 9 October 1913, Page 5

SUN CABLES.

HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS

THE AUCKLAND EXHIBITION. [B\ Electric Telegraph—Copyright iiiiios-— Sydney 6u.n Special Cables. (Received 8 a.m.) .London, October 8. Forty-three members of the Hoyal Artillery Band, Woolwich, under the leadership of Bandmaster Stretton, sail by the Turakina for New Zealand to play at the Auckland Exhibition during a stay of eight weeks. SCHOOLS FOR FATHERS.

London, October 8

At the Women Workers' Conference at Hull, Dr." Mary .Murdoch declared that mothers must not be expected to do all the drudgery while the fathers took ease in arm chairs at their clubs. Schools for fathers should be established, so that they, also, might study the problem of a healthy race. Men should- be cooks, as they could stand the heat better than women.

AN ADVERTISING DODGE.

London,. October S

' A clerk who was convicted at the Mansion House advertised for two ironmongers' assistants in the name of a Wellington firm of storekeepers, and undertook to pay half the pas-sage-money. He received thirteen sums of £ll 10s from men answering advertisement.

ATROCITIES IN MEXICO.

London, October 8

Those who have returned- from Mexico assert that the Federals are acting with greater inhumanity than the rebels in pursuance of instructions to kill all the wounded. A man was dragged to the hospital, and after his leg was amputated he was placed in front of a firing line and shot. LIFE IN THE SEWERS. Milan, October 8. A youth who was found by -sewei scavengers st::teci that he was throw): down a manhole early in Septembei and had lived' in the sewers- since, He was drenched by the rushing torrents of slime amid armies of rats. He was completely compelled to fight for life against the rodents.

LIBELLING THE KAISSR'S SON

Berlin, October 8

The authorities of ' Strasbourg . instituted proceedings against two loca' newspapers for stating, .that the .Kaiser's youngest son had incurred debtr amounting to £25,000 while at the Strasbourg University. The report V - as'- officially denied.

THE TRIPLE ALLIANCE.

Berlin— October 8

An article in the 1 Monthly Maga zinc alleged to be founded on a' conversation with Count von Aehrent.h.al a leading Austrian statesman, state: that periodical renewals of the 'Triple alliance only refer to the German Aastrian agreements with Italy, whereas the Austro-Cerman agreement is renewed automatically until one or other Power gives notice of remindatiori. The avowed purpose of the article is to promote co-operation between Berlin and Vienna, with fi view to a strong united action in th( anticipated approaching partition of Turkey-in-Asia.

THE INVENTION FAILED

Berlin, October S

In consequence of an accident, owing to wires stretched on the road, a motorist invented a contrivance to remove the obstructions. He tested his invention twice and the experiments were successful, but in a severe trial it failed to act and the automobile dashed into a tree and the motorist and bis chaffeur were'killed.

ARMY BOOT CONTRACT.

London, October S

At the leather exhibition a new stylo of boot of the Derby Shooter pattern, with a chrome side upper of very fine quality, designed for the army, was shown. Contracts for ten thousand pairs have been placed in order to test the boot. The exhibitors agree that the scarcity of raw material is increasing and higher prices are inevitable-