GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8149, 5 July 1906, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

INSUBANCE AMALGAMATION. London-, July 3, The United Kingdom Provident Inmtution and the Star Line Assurance Association arc amalgamating. Their funds amount to £15,000,000, and their income £'1,500,000. DISARMAMENT. . , Pahis, July 3. Le Matin s Home correspondent says that Signor Tittoni, the Italian Minister for Foreign Affairs, has approached Britain and France with a suggestion for an arrangement with Germany, and Austria, with a view to a gradual reduction of armaments, THE WARWICK PAGEANT. London, July 2. The Warwick Pageant, picturing the history of the town for seventeen hundred years, was a fine spectacle. In the closing scene, two thousand actors were on th ; stage. THE MEAT SCARE. Sydsev, .lulv3. The State Agent-General (Mr"T. A. Coghlan) writes that a good deal of Harm is being done Australian tinned meat in England by the sale of American bleached beef in place thereof. The retailers are the offenders, and the American packers are in no way to blame. Mr Coghlan is taking measures to stop the frauds. BRITISH NAVAL MANCE UVRES. London, July 3. The naval manoeuvres haye closed. Admiral May's attacking fleet, though losing several battleships, evaded a decisive encounter. By using oil fuel it shook off pursuers, obtained temporary •ommand of the Channel, and threatened to bombard the ports unless it received indemnities. Admiral Wilson claim.,- that he des. troyed the enemy's power, and crippled its commerce, while the destruction of the enemy's fleet was assured. POPLAR PAUPERS : Los Dos, July 3. The inquiry regarding the alleged extravagance at Poplar Workhouse showed thai the paupers on the farm colony at Laindon are allowed three meat meals daily and much more expensive tea than the House of Commons uses. They are given a week end trip lo London with fares paid and pocket money, which they are allowed to spend at hotels. JAPAN AND MANCHURIA. London, July 3. The " Daily Mail's" Kobe correspondent reports that Japan is pouring quantities of goods into Manchuria through Dalny duty free. All othur nationalities are excluded.