GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 286, 6 May 1914, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

A DARING RAID. ! By Cable—Press Association—Copyright 6ydney, May 6. A daring outrage occurred in the early hours. Four men were playing cards in a house at Darlinghurst when four desperadoes rushed the room and held up the players at the pistol point. They rifled the house, and escaped with money and jewellery valued at £2OO. SMALL-POX IK SYDNEY.

Sydney, May 5. There are three ease* ef imall-pox in the city. MIXED BATHING POPULAR. London, May 4.. Mixed bathing is not allowed in most London baths, but Camberwell, experimenting in this direction, found the b;iths received, unprecedented patronage and could not accommodate! the crowds. The Council ii therefore extending the hours. THB MAORI KING AT HOME. Londsn, May 4. | It is anticipated that the King will 1 ■at receive the Maori ehiefs who are arriving to discuss treaties. » A FATAL OYCLONB. | New York, May 4. A cyelone in Arkansas killed four persons and wiped out farm houses near Texajrkana.Details are not known, as the wires are dowa. ANNUAL MEDICAL INSPECTION. New York, May 4. Dr. Goldwater, Health Commissioner, proposes that every one of the city's five million inhabitants should be ex- | amined at least once yearly. He beilicves that it would prolong life by three to five years by the prevention of communicable disease and the early discovery of cancer, Bright'* disease and tuberculosis.