GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 144328, 17 February 1914, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

CLOSING THE STABLE DOOR. BY ELECTBIO TELEGRAPH—COPYRIGHT. TIMES —SYDNEY SUN SPECIAL CABLES. (Received Feb. 17, 8 a.m.) LONDON, Feb. 16. The War Office has issued an emphatic order forbidding canteen officiall to accept gifts from contractors. A SCIENTIST’S BRAIN. HUES—SYDNEY BUN SPECIAL CABLES. (Received Feb. 17, 8 a.m.) PARIS, Feb. 16. A post-mortem on M. Bertillon’s brain weighed 1523 grammes, 165 grammes above the average. WELSH DISESTABLISHMENT. LONDON, Feb. 16. Nonconformists, numbering 15,321, in the diocese of St. Asaph, have petitioned Mr. Asquith against the Welsh Disestablishment Bill. WOMEN POLICE APPROVED. TIMES-—SYDNEY SUN SPECIAL CABLES. LONDON, Feb. 16. Scotland Yard commends Chicago’s women police. Scotland Yard has its own secret staff of women in London, and they have rendered splendid service. A YOUNG COMPOSER. BERLIN, Feb. 16. The musical world is enraptured about a symphonietta composed by Enrich Korngold, a sixteen-year-old Viennese, who is hailed by critics as “Richard Strauss in Knickers.” OVERSEAS’ EXHIBITION. (Received Feb. 17, 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, Feb. 16. Mr. T. Mackenzie, Mr. Denham, Premier of Queensland, Captain Collins, representing the and 150 persons representing the Dominions and Colonies attended the opening of Selfridge’s overseas’ exhibition. Considerable interest is displayed in tho event. AN OBLIVIOUS CASHIER. (Received Feb. 17, 9.30 a.m.) • LONDON, Feb. 10. RoßTnhon, cashier in London for the Commercial Bank of Australia, who was charged with embezzlement, has been sentenced to eighteen months’ imprisonment in the second division. He had no recollection how he had disposed of the missing money, NEW ZEALAND OFFICES. (Received Feb. 17, 9.45 a.m.) LONDON, Feb. 16. The King will lay the foundation Stone of the New Zealand offices, adi’oining the Adelphi Theatre. The date, lowever, is not yet fixed. BEWARE OF THE PARROT. TIMES—SYDNEY SUN SPECIAL CABLES. (Received Feb. 17, 8 ajn.) LONDON, Feb. 16. Dr. Beddoes has issued a warning that parrots are transmitters of parrot diseases, and quotes many cases, onethird of them fatal.