GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81838, 3 September 1906, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

HOME GOVERNMENT'S EXHIBITION COMMISSIONER. Received 4, 4.50. p.m. London, September 1 Sir John Eldon Gorst has been ap. pointed Government Special Commissioner to the Chnstchurch Exhibition. MINERS' STRIKE IN WALES. Eeeeived.2, 3.50 p.m. London, September 1. Six thousaud miners at Rhymney and four thousand at Maesteg (Wales), have struck owing to the employment of a non-unionist. i-iOT WEATHER IN ENGLAND. [Received 2nd, 4.50 p.m. ILondon, September 2. Very hot weather is being experience I'd in England. The thermometer ranged from 21 to 23 in the shade, the highest since August, 1903. Some cases of sunstroke are reported. DISEASED MEAT REGULATIONS. ~, Received 2nd, l.SOp.in.gi'Wi Lonlon, September I.U Tho National Federation of Meat Trades urae the Government to issue Ihe report of. the Royal Commission on tuberculosis, with a yiew to securing uniformity of local action with regard N " to the seizure and confiscation of carcasos alloged to bo infected with tuberculosis. HUGE DEFALCATIONS. i&llii Received 2od, 4.31 p.m. i ' 3 58 IF New York, September 1. Hippie, who suicided,, misappropriated a million sterling of the funds 'he Real Estate Trust of Philadelphia. A NATAL CATTLE EPIDEMIC. Received 2, 1.34 p.m Pietebmabitzbdho, September 1. \ . An outbreak .of East Coast fever is reported amongst cattle in Natal. It ii feared its ravages will be more ndesproad than the former outbreak )f rinderpest. Some infected catt'e were sold in Durban, but it is imposj sible to trace them. NATAL INDEMNITY BILLJ Received 2, 4.34 p.m London, September 2. Reutor's Maritzburg correspondent reparts that the Imperial Government saictioned tho Natal Indemnity Bill, . "THE TIMES" ON OUR ARBITRATION ACT, Received 23, 10.7 p.m. London, September 1. Tho'" Times " says though it is true the Arbitration Act ha? not ruined New Zealand, yet there is evideneejof dis. ■•ontent on the part of masters and non. GERMANY AND BRITAIN. ' Recoiyod 2nd, 4.34 p.m. Biauif, Septomber 1. The Right Hon. R. B. Haldane vis ted the Prussian War-Oflbe. Several Gjrman newspapors weloonud the Britis'i, Minister bF War as a friend of G ;tmany, ENGLISH CRICKET. Received 3,17 a.m. London, September 2. - Kent, not having lost a match since •Vhitsuntido, secured the champion'hip. Yorskshire, Si rey, Lancashire, Notts, Warwick, and Essex following tn the order named.

Hayward made his thirteenth cen'ury against Middlesex, increasing lus •Mgregate to three thousand tli xe 'lundrod and sixty runs, which is a/ ■ecord. SPAIN AND~THiTvATICAN. Madmd, August 31. Spa'nhas adopfco. a Bill subjecting elisious associations recently arriving >om France to the same law indus.trial as in weed i, France, and compelhngthem to naiui-a'lse. A REMARKABLE ESCAPE. Fm Youk, August 31. IMiss Daly, an aeronaut, was' ascend, mi at Jliddleton, New York, when a rope whirled among the crowd and a loop caught Miss Roper by the leg ind earned her head downwards a thousand feet high. Miss Daly jucan. >vhile seized Miss Eoper, released the ga? and descended safely.