GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 20, 24 June 1913, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

THE LEICESTER CONTEST. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. London, June 21. Advanced Laborites bitterly resent the National Executive vetoing Mr. Banton's candidature for Leicester and a Socialist, Harlcy, being adopted. GREENWICH TIME. Rio de Janeiro, June 22. The President has established Greenwich time. JUDGE LYNCH. New York, June 22. William Redding, a negro, shot the chief of police at Americas, Georgia. After his arrest a crowd of four hundred hung him on a gable and riddled him with bullets. DEFENCE OF HOLLAND. The Hague, June 22. The Coast Defence Bill was adopted, including the provision for fortifications at Flushing. EARTHQUAKES. Sofia, June 22. The earthquakes continue at Tirnova, which has been practically wiped out. Great distress prevails. EDUCATION IN INDIA. Delhi, June 22. Bengalis threaten an agitation over the decentralisation of the education administration, which v, ill be mqre serious than that over the partition. THE WEATHER IN INDIA. Delhi, Juno.22. The monsoon season has arrived earlier than usual in Northern India. Good rains have fallen in Burma and North-Eastern India, and fair rains in the West Coast and Central Province?. TRADE WITH JAPAN. Sydney, June 23. J. B. Donkin. a pastoralist, as the result of a visit to the East is much impressed with the trade possibilities in Japan for Australian wool, meat, and butter. Japan, he' thinks, will shortly be able to take every ounce of meat that can be sent her. Already she buys wool valued at £750,00u, and prefers Australian butter to any other. The demand for both of these conditions was bound to expand enormously. NEW SOUTH WALES RAILWAYS. Sydney, June 23. The New South Wales railways show a loss on the past year's workings, wasres have increased £300,000 compared with two years ago. The Commissioner proposes to raise fares and freights by £147,000 yearly.