BRITISH EMPIRE NEWS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13673, 11 April 1908, Page 5

BRITISH EMPIRE NEWS.

SPINAL MENINGITIS.

;Ry Electric Tolegfaph-rr-Copyright. * • • . LONDON, ApriTio. jJDr. Robb, of Belfast, reports that a ijeWj aeatunt for the treatment of cere-firo-§pjuaal meningitis has. reduced the (feath Ja'fp from^TS to 30 per cent.

(a SLUMP IN SOUTH Ar"RICAf.

\:i (Rficeived- April -H, 8J& a.m.) {;. '-*- "^AEETOWN, Apr£ 10. I There* afif. 25,000 more unemployed riativesoja the Ran 4 now- than in 1907. Jibis is due to commercial stagnation attd the-erisiqin the diamond industry. "The De JBjeers, . Premier and Jagersfontein mines have , released 20,000 blacks, and the Central and South African railways. 17,500.