General Cables.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 71, 14 March 1914, Page 5

General Cables.

HOME AND FORESGN MEWS

NEW ZEALAND FISHERIES. i By Electric Telegraph—copyright] [United Press Association.!, Ottawa, March 12. Professor Prince has departed for New Zealand to organise the fisheries service at the request of the New Zealand Government.

IMPERIAL PRESS CONFERENCE.

Ottawa, March 13

The Press conference of 1910 has been fixed at Ottawa. The Canadian Committee is anxious to secure lull representation of Australia and New ■Zealand.

UP-TO-DATE POSTAL SERVICE

Constantinople, March 13

Turkey has approved of the establishment of an aerial postal service from Aleppo to Bagdad, to replace the camel caravan.

BACTERISED PEAT.

London, March 13

Professor William Bottomley, at the Society of Arts, described a wonderful series of experiments at King’s College, producing bacterised peat, which becomes a perfect manure, absorbing the nitrogenous wealth of the atmosphere, and gives a new stimulus to exhausted soils.

A “STRAD” DISCOVERED,

Ottawa, March 13

A resident of London (Ontario) offered to sell a violin for a small sum. The opinion of Kubelik, who is visiting the district, was sought, and he declared it to be the finest Stradivarius he had ever handled, and was worth £7OOO. The instrument has been sent to England for export examination.

INCOME TAX PROPOSALS.

Sydney, March 13

Mr Holman’s income tax proposals reduce the exemption from £3OO to £250, and the graduation will alter so as to commence at eightpcnce, ris-, ing so as to reach fourteen pence in the pound on incomes in excess of £9,700. The previous graduation was from sixpence to a smiling. The revenue tor 1914-15 is estimated at £20,039,000, and the expenditure at £19,506,000, leaving a surplus ot £533,000.

SHIPOWNERS’ TROUBLES.

Melbourne, March 13

At the annual meeting of the Australian Steamships, Limited, the chairman referred to the decrease in profits owing to the increasingly heavy demands of all sections of employees. !f any new dematiers were granted, shipowners would be compelled, for their own self-preservation, to increase fares and freights, even though the result would be a possible diminution and diversion of trade.

DEMENTED !N THE BUSH.

Melbourne, March 13

Sydney Jeffreys, who was wireless operator on Dr. Mawson’s Antarctic expedition, was found in au exhausted and demented condition in the hush, where he had been wandering for six lays, practically foodless. He was removed to the Ararat asylum. Jeffreys joined the train at Adelaide, en route to Queensland, and how bo came to leave it and wander into the bush is unknown.

BLASTING FATALITY.

Melbourne, March 13

A blasting fatality occurred at the Orbost railway. A charge failed to explode. The foreman, John Carroll, las son Peter, and a third man named Sullivan, attempted to draw the charge, which wont off and killed all three. Portions of John’s body wore found two hundred yards away.

AMERICAN BEEF TRUST. Melbourne, March 13.

Regarding the uneasiness reported as to the establishment of the American Beef Trust in Australia, Mr Cook, Federal Premier, says there is no need for the rumors, and that the Government is keeping its eyes open.

WOMEN EMIGRANTS

Times and Sydney Sun Services,

Lord Plunket, speaking at the British Women’s Emigration Association, referred to the dangers besetting young women emigrating to Australasia, and emphasised the need for supervision by matrons.

Iho Bishop of ukon said that there were 80,000 more men than women in Canada. The problem was to make them British citizens. This could lie solved by getting sufficient British women to go to Canada as servants, teachers, nurses, and wives.