GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8161, 20 July 1906, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

COMPENSATION. London, July 18. The Sonth - Eastern Railway has given Cyril Maude, actor and theatre manager, £20,000 compensatian for the destruction of the Avenue Theatre. FEARS FOR ARCTIC EXPEDITION. Nsw York, July 18. There are grave fears in New York regarding Commander Peary's Arctic expedition. No news has been received for many months, and the weather in the Arctio is exceptionally severe. A MILLIONAIRE'!} GIFT. NSW York, July 18. Mr John D. Rockefeller has contributed £50,000 sterling to rebuild the Yonng Men's Christian Association, building at San Francisco.

A MILLIONAIRE'S MONEY. London, July 18. The "Tribune's" Pretoria correspondent reports that the late Alfrtd Beit's estate is valued at nine millions. Nearly the whole is placed at the disposal of the late Cecil Rhodes' executors. It is intended to liberally endow the Tran* xal University sad Technical College. ANTI-BRITISH CARTOONS. Cairo, July 18. Two newspapers have been suppressed at Cairo for publishing antiBritish cartoons.

| LORD CROMER'S WARNINGS. | Paris, Jul; 18. | French newspapers, commenting on the revival of fanaticism in Northern Africa, especially South Tripoli, nrge Frenchmen to appreciate Lord Cromer's warnings.