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Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 20011, 14 February 1914, Page 7

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(United Press Association. —Copyright.) NEW YORK, February 12. Wireless press messages between Germany and the United States have been exchanged, and congratulations extended from the American Press to the Berlin newspapers, and between the American Ambassador and the German Emperor. LONDON February 12. The Cabinet reconsidered, but decided to adhere to the decision not to participate in the San Francisco Exhibition. A tradesman at Rotherhithe was fined £25 for selling .margarine as butter, this being his third conviction. At a conference of the Temperance League, a statement was made that the moderation in the attitude of the churches was partly responsible for the continuance of social drinking. The coal owners of Britain decline to raise their recent 'offer of 3s per day to surfacemen. The miners are dissatisfied, and their secretary predicts another national coal strike unless the surfacemen and all British miners nre better treated. BOMBAY, February 12. Eleven deaths from plague have occured in Ceylon. Numbers of infested rats have been captured. PARIS, February 12. The Chinese tattoo is becoming popular, and is supplanting the tango. The new dance does not allow of unseemly embraces, simply consisting of five beau- • tiful steps. LONDON, February 12. The " Chronicle's" Washington correspondent states that President Wilson at first demurred at meeting Sir Lionel Carden as not being accredited to Washington, but subsequently decided that Ahgjlo^Atmer^Gan firiendshfip was more important than red tape, and that it would ako be the best means of disposing of the newspapers' wild charges against Sir L. Garden.