GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 250, 19 November 1903, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

WORTH TWELVE MILLIONS. NEW YORK, Nov. 17. Mrs Scliciley, of Pittsburg, died in London Worth twelve million sterling. CUT PROFIT. NEW YORK, Nov. 17. Tho Pennsylvania Steel Company is supplying 20,000 tons of rails for tho Mecca railway in Arabia at a dollar a ton profit compared with ten dollars a ton profit on rails for homo use. BRIBERY. NEW YORK, Nov. 17. Charles Dutrich, .Republican Senator for Nebraska, has been indicted for b(ri|b]ery and selling the Postmastership at Hastings, Nebraska. W= "' ; " A FRENCH DUELr aKBB:D!S '" PARIS, Nov. 17. M. Ebelot, a barrister at Toulouse, has been arrested for manslaughter in connection with a duel fought at Paris with M. Lantier, a son of a wealthy Toulouse jeweller. The duel was fought with swords M. Lautier being fatally wounded. MUSIC, HALLS. Received Nov. 18, at 3. 9 p.m. LONDON, Nov. 17. The Lord Chamberlain refuses to licenso the production of stage plays at music halls. THE VICTORIAN LOAN. Tho Financial Times says Victoria rounded an awkward corner faiily well in placing four millions out of five amongst the public. A BOOKIE IN COURT. Although the Gaming Act was pleaded in a Londin Court, Albert Jackson, Bookmaker, carrying on business at The Hague was ordered to refund £52, tho balance of a deposit made to cover debts, on tho ground that plaintiff was entitled to money not exhausted in the transactions.

THE NEW REPUBLIC. NEW YORK, Nov. 17. France has recognised the Panama Repu'bllic. The latter offers Columbia indemnity for loss of the Isthmus ...out of tho sum received for the canal concession to America. A LONG SLEEP. BERLIN, Nov. 17. A woman named Gesine, has been fed artificially for seventeen years while asleep near Bremen. She awoke on a sudden alarm of lire. Her appearance is normal. She remembers incidents prior to her illness. STRIKERS RESUME WORK. MADRID, Nov. 17. Five thousand of the miners who recently struck at Riotinto, have resumed work. THE AUSTRALIAN CONTRIBUTION TO THE NAVY. Received Nov. 18, 9.30 p.m. MELBOURNE, Nov. 18. Australia's first contribution of £20,000 to the Navy will be remitted to London this week. AFGHAN RUN AMOK. PERTH, Nov. 18. At Picton Valley, near Menzies, Menin, an insane Afghan, ran amok, and shot three countrymen. One is dead and the others in a serious condition. AUSTRALIAN AND RUSSIAN MEAT. Received Nov. 18, at 10.22 p.m. LONDON, Nov. 18.

Mr Tozer, Agent-General for Queensland, learning that Russian live cattle had advantage under the Malta meat duties to the extent of one half-penny per pound compared with Australian frozen meat, is pressing the Colonial Office to amend tho tariff equalising Russia and Australia. CABLE CONFERENCE. Lord Lyttelton presides at the approaching Pacific Cable Conference. CONSOLS. Consols are quoted at 88. THE THIBET EXPEDITION. BOMBAY, Nov. 18. Three hundred Sikhs and three thousand Sepoys, with a mountain battery and Maxims and a Jew British soldiers, all over six feet, are accompanying Major Younghusband under Colonel Macdonald. The Thibetans threaten resistance. The mission is intended to combat Russia's persistent attempts to pener trate Thibet. Many of the chief officials of Lhaesa are in Russia's pay. THE CAPE LEGISLATURE. Received Nov. 18, 10.44 p.m. CAPETOWN, Nov. 18. Thfe Progressives have a majority of ono in the Cape Legislative Council. THE NEW REPUBLIC. NEW YORK, Nov. 18. Panama has rejected Columbia's overtures for reunion. Pierpont Morgan advanced funds to start the Panama Government in its career. President Roosevelt submitted to Congress a document showing that Columbia, after the revolution, offered to ratify a treaty if the United States would restoro order in the Isthmus. REDUCTION OF MEMBERS. SYDNEY, Nov. 18. Tho Referendum Bill, providing for taking an expression of opinion on tho reduction of members, made a strong passage through committee, and gag was frequently in evidence. An amendment, moved by a member of tho Labour Party, to strike out tho figure 80 from tho schedule, thus limiting tho people's choice to 00 or 100 members, was carried, the Government supporting tho amendment to their own schedule. SOUTH AFRICAN MAIIKET. LONDON, Nov. 18. ' The report of Henry Birchenough, member of the Statistical Soci«ty > on "The Commercial and Indus- ; trial possibilities of South Africa," ' has been published as a Blue Book. ] He expresses firm confidence in the splendid future. South Africa will J become 'by far the most important • market in the world for British goods. 1 DUKE OF HESSE'S DAUGHTER ' DEAD. BERLIN, Nov. 18. ' The Duke of Hesse's youngest dau- , gliter is dead. The Duke was with _ the Czar hunting in Skiernienice, Russian Poland. He rode homo at a breakneck pace, but found the \ child just dead. [ THE KAISER. 1 t BERLIN, Nov. 18. ~ Tho Kaiser's wound is healing norf mally and bulletins have ceased. ENGINEERING TRADE DULL. v - SYDNEY, Nov. 18. The engineering und noilermakiiigy trade is so depressed that masters are asking the men to accept a 10 per cent, reduction and a modification of the Trade Union rules. LORD ROBERTS. \ LONDON, Nov. 18. Lord Roberts is making good progress towards recovery.