GENERAL CABLES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 479, 11 September 1909, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

London, September 9. Mr John Redmond, Nationalist Leader, speaker at Waterford, said that if the landlords were mad enough to reject the Irish Land Bill, he would advise the people to take vigorous action in the winter, and he himself would lead the campaign. The Nonconformist newspaper, British Weekly, urges the formation of a Free Church Urgency League, for a crusade against the House of Lords. The paper adds that Dr Clifford (one of the leaders of Nonconformity, and head of the Passive Resistance movement) is prepared to head the crusade. Mr S. F. Cody, who has for some time past been testing his aeroplane for the military autho rides, made a cross-country flight, lasting 63 minutes, at Aldershot. A speed of 40 miles an hour was attained. The aeroplane circled and manoeuvred with the greatest ease at a height of 250 ft. [This is an English aeroplane record for time aloft, and probably for distance too.] New York, September 8. A balloonist who made an ascent at New York fell from a height of one thousand feet, and was killed, owing to his parachute failing to work. The accident was witnesseed by sixty thousand spectators. Morocco, September 8. General Aguileras, with a strong Spanish force, advanced from Melilla, and destroyed the positions of the Riff tribesmen around Arkemen. The Moors made a splendid resistance, and lost heavily, but they were unable to withstand the dash of the Spanish infantry, who advanced under cover of heavy artillery fire.