GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 15, 5 June 1914, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

ANTI-TRUST ACT. By Cable—Press Association —Copyright Washington l , June 3. The Uoitee of Representatives' adopted 'an amendment to the Anti-Trust Bill exempting labor unions from prosecution in the case of organised restraint of trade. MONGOLIAN INDEPENDENCE. Peking, June 3. (Mongolia has notified Wie Powers Ministers of its independence of China, and requests that Consuls be sent to urge and negotiate troaitic's of peace and friendship. SCARLET FEVER IN PRISON. New York, June 3. 14, scarlet fever epidemic is raging at the prison at Auburn, the convicts foeing| affected; Isol-atiiom is impossible. Infection is attributed to wigs used by the prisoners in a- (Jhfeaferical .per/or nuance. TYPEWRITER FOR WIRELESS. Times and Sydny Sun Services. C-hrietiania, June 3. Captain (Ifarland of the Norwegian Navy, has invented si. typewriter for recording printed wireless messages. It lhas ft simple key-hoard similar to that of a typewriter. NEW DJVJiNtI OUTFIT. Times and ftydny Sun Services. Paris, June 3. Experiments are being conducted at Toulon with, n, new pipe diving boll, invented iby tut Jitailian engineer. It is fitted with bummers, Uwy<, and other tools fastened outside and manipulated from within. (EARLY STRAWBERRY CROP. London, June 3. Strawberries ax?, in abundant supply, three weeks .earlier than usual. A SWEDISH JORE. Times and Sydny Sun Services. Stockholm, June 3. Owing to flood!* the manager of the State railways wired stations to send full particulars of the fiood. The sta.tionroaster at Oottenburg, where there "rma-s glorious' .sunshine, /thinking it was a joke, replied "see Gene'sis." COMPENSATION Ffl'l M.I>.S!OXARV ■ DEATH. Peking, June 3. Ths Government Bias paid Norway twenty thousand taels as compensation in connection with t'H'e munlnr of Groyland, a Norwegian miwionary who •was killed by brigands in March. MELBOURNE CITY LOAN.

[ Melbourne June 3. The City Council has sanctioned the flotation of a loan of £300,000 at 4'A per cent for a twenty year currency. A PAYIXO BUSINESS. Sydney, June 3, The Tooth Company of brewers have decided to issue new 135,500 shares as a bonus to ordinary shareholders. This makes £887,500 distributed in the shape of bonuses in four years.