GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 March 1916, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

.CAUSES OP SICKNESS AND DEATH. By Cable—Press Association —Copyright. Melbourne, March 14. A preliminary report by the committee appointed to investigate the causes of death and invalidity nays that an enormous power for ill is attributed to alcohol, and that the contagious group of industrial diseases needs special treatment. STOPPAGE OP IMMIGRATION. Sydney, March 14. The Premier confirms the dissolution of the joint New South Wales and Victorian Immigration Bureau in London, as immigration hag been entirely suspended. QUARREL OP AN OLD COUPLE. Melbourne, March 15. Jane Cromley, aged 00, was struck on the head with a poker in a lodginghouse in North Melbourne. Later her husband Michael, aged 60, was arrested and attempted suicide with a. razor, but the wound is not serious, A CHILD MURDERED. Melbourne, March 15. The body o[ a girl named Boris Foley, aged four, vr:is found at Beech Forest with her throat cut. VICTORIAN SUPER-TAX BILL. Melbourne, March 15. In the Legislative Council the second reading of tiie Super-Tax Bill was defeated by 18 votes to six.

BIG ORDER FOR ENGINES. Sydney, March 14. The Government has signed a contract with the Clyde Engineering Company for three hundred locomotives, costing one million. BUILDINGS SOLD CHEAPLY. Melbourne, March 15. The building's erected at a cost of xCl's,ooo to house the Australian exhibits at the Panama Exposition sold for £BOO. ABOLITION OP GERMAN SCHOOLS. Melbourne, March 15. The Council of Public Education passed a motion urging the abolition of German schools in Victoria. THE EXPORT OP ANTIMONY. Melbourne, March 15. A deputation representing the Costerfield Mining Company asked Mr. Tudor for an assurance that he would not tighten the embargo on the export of antimony ore. The deputation stated that no works in Australia were capable of treating ore containing less than 50 per cent, of antimony nor containing gold with antimony. AUSTRALIAN MINES. Sydney, March 14. Representatives of the Kulara Mining and Smelting Company of Japan inspected the Broken Hill mines, with the object of securing contracts for certain metals used in ttie supply of big munitions. The orders thu company is fill'li!T arc for the Allies, particularly Russia. The representatives are also studying Australian mining methods. j CONTROL OP FIJI. Sydney, March 14. Mr. Jledston, the member of the Fiji Legislative Council, added ,—"What we know of Australian administration does not encourage a desire fo" vonr governmu.t. If Australia wr- I *-* give a free entry to Fijian product;, n would be a fine thing, -but you have to consider Queensland ,the Northern Territory and Papi'ft We prefer to come under the wing of New Zealand, because they have no tropical possession to consider outside tha Cook Island and Nine. The disadvantage v that New Zealan;' has a limited consumption. On the vhois we prefer to be left alone. We are happily free from a lot of the troubles aH'eeting you.''