CABLE NEWS.

Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 20012, 16 February 1914, Page 7

CABLE NEWS.

(United Press Association —Copyright.) LONDON. February 13.

Vice-AdmiraT Sir George King-Hall has been placed on the retired list on his own request, in order to make room for younger men.

The "Daily Chronicle" says that lh<? Naval Estimates are now expected to slightly exceed £51.000.000, besides £3,----000.000 on the Supplementary Estimates.

[Major Sir Matthew Wilson opprst-s the Right Hon. F. C. Masternnu tei Bethnal Green.

Warrants havo boon granted for the arrest of Minto and Ness in the canteen oase.v Ness is supposed to iiave Kone to Canada, and Minto recently quitted Paris.

PARIS, February 13. Extraordinary epidemics of scarlet fever, pneumonia, and cerebro and spinal meningitis have broken out. Eight hundred are in hospital >at .Toul, five hundred at Nancy, and many other garrisons are affected. There have beon iiumerous deaths. The epidemics are «lue to overcrowding, through 185,O(K) extra recruits having to be aecomnio.l:ired, <and the delay in constructing the n«w barracks. * LONDON, February 13. Mr. Gpldie sails on the Orsova with the plans and models of the various sections of the Australian Exhibition to be held at Earl's Court in 1916. A London firm offer £5000 if the promoters devote a section to Papua's people, customSj and resources. NEW YORK, February 13. Four employees of the Hercules Powder Factory, at Kenvil, New Jersey, were killed when an explosion destroyed the plant. The destruction was so complete that im trace of the bodies has been found. DENVER, February 13. When the dam at Great Horse Creek reservoir burst, a hundred feet wall of water swept down, wrecking the bridge near Hudson, shortly before the Chic-ego-Eurlington Quiny passenger tram approached. Mrs. Gammon, telephone operator, although endangered by the flood, stuck to her post, and warned thr nearest station, the train being flagged in time to save it from destruction. A hundred and fifty " passengers were aboard. / MONTREAL, February 13. The Legislative investigation finds that two members of the Lower Provincial House, Messrs. Berrard and Mousseau. were guilty of graft ii. connection with the "Daily Mail's" allega* tions. As both have resigned already, •it is understood no further action is possible. MELBOURNE. February 14. Hawker states that the aeroplanes imported by the Defence Department are practically useless for defence purposes. Australia's long coast line made hydroplanes, or hydro-aeroplanes, not land-planes, the class of aircraft required. The Australian machines are already four models oKL The interim report of the Powelrishjs Commission recommends a reduction w the size of sleepers on the Trans-Austra-lian Railway, thus saving £70,000 in £100,000. SYDNEY, 11. Mackenzie's stfore at Manilla has been destroyed by fire. The cTa-'agft is «stiinated at £20,000. There was no fire ■ brigade or water supply, and the citizens were powerless to figV.t the onibreak.