GENERAL CABLES.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXVI, Issue 7565, 8 May 1919, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES.

LONDON, May 6

The House of Commons read a second time a private Bill compelling th^ use of on anaesthetic in all operations on animals, including docking. The Bill abolishes vivisection. The Government has accepted the principles of the Bill, but will suggest amendments in Committee

Mr Power's picture at the Academy has just been finished. It is a largo painting from the artists commissioned by the Commonwealth Government for the War Museum, and depicts the batteries of the First Division changing ground at the Battle of Ypres in July, 1917. The Government have already so. cured fifteen hundred sketches and studies.

SYDNEY, May 7. As a, result of a dispute between tho Federfiti-d Engine Drivers' Association ait Broken Hill, all the mines except two have been closed, idling 5400 employees

MELBOURNE, May 7

The Government Statistician's report states that during the .first three months of 1019 there were 628 deaths from influenza, and approximately 6 ppr cent of all tho cases reported proved fatal

The Commonwealth Note issite is now £55.918,722, and tho gold reserve £24,366,01.5.