GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 144198, 15 September 1913, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

MOTORS TOR ARTILLERY. DT ELECTBIC TELEGRAPH. —COPYPJCH't. TIMES —SYDNEY SDN SPECIAL CABLES. LONDON, Sopt. 13. After the manoeuvres at Salisbury the War Office proposes to try whether it is possible to employ motors instead of horses to draw artillery. DEPORTED HINDUS. NEW YORK, Sept. 14. Tho deportation has boen oidercd of fifty Hindus from San Francesco. Ttcy wore seeking to gain entrance to tho United States on the ground that they had boen residents of the Philippines and were thus entitled to enter despite tho immigration regulations. FLOODS IN NEVADA. (Received Sept. 15, 8.20 a.m.) NEW YORK, Sent. 14. Floods resulting from cloudbursts at tho goldfields in Nevada drowned five and swamped scores of residences. Communication was cut off, but it is repartee! that tho village of Tonopah has been wiped out. BRITISH PAINTERS’ STRIKE. (Received Sopt. 15, 9.10 a.m.) LQNDON Sept. 14. ’ Tho painters, after a ballot, have accepted an immediate increase of a penny per hour. Other points, including another halfpenny per- hour, have lioy.i referred to arbitration. The master decorators, employing TOGO men, have agreed to the toisns and tho men’s leaders are asking the master builders to do likewise. A CASE OF CHOLERA. VIENNA, Sept. 14. A ease of Asiatic cholera has occurred at Marienbad. A DEFAULTING BANK CLERK. LONDON, Sent. 14. Graham Hcthcriugton, a bant— ~ Graham Hetherington, atbank cashier, has been accused of embezzling largely. Ho got into the hands of money-lenders who charged him 130 per cent. A TAX ON MARRIAGE. TIMES—SYDNEY BUN SPECIAL CABLES. . BERLIN, Sept. 13. Parliament has imposed a tax of five mark® on marriages, the proceeds to go to tho midwives' fund. TROUBLE WITH NEGROES. NEW YORK, Sept. 14. Negroes attempted to force a merchant in a small* village in Illinois to accept an irregular bill in payment for some small purchase. Tho merchant refasod and the negroes shutnp the shop. The citizens organised a posse and pur- ■ sued tho negroes. A pitched battle followed and two negroes wcro fftilled. STRIKE AT GLASGOW. LONDON, September 13. Seven hundred employ pen pit tho late ; Lord Overtoun’s chemical works, Glasgow, struck for a ton per cent, advance,and have been informed that unless they resume the old rates of wages!, will bo reduced. CONTRACTORS CEASING WORK. (Received September 15, 10.10 a.m.) LONDON, September 14. Aird and Company, the great contractors. have decided to close when their existing contracts are completed.-