GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81839, 4 September 1906, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

EARTHQUAKES AT VALPARAISO. Received 3rd, g.44 P-m. Valparaiso, September 3Shocks arc felt at Valparaiso daily

IMPERIAL TROOPB IN NATAL. Received 3rd, 11.5 P' m - Pietermaritzburg, September 3. There is great satisfaction at Maritzburg owing to the third battalion of Warwickshire being stationed there.

SUPPOSED DROWNING FATALITY. Received 4th, i.'3 a - m - Sydney, September 3. During a heavy squall yesterday, it was reported that a boat had cap sized near the Heads, but no trace was discovered. To-day it was re ported that a man Ralph and his wife went out sailing, and had not returned. It is supposed they were drowned.

TWO MEN INCINERATED. Received 4th, 1.13 a.m. Melbourne, September 3. Two men, O'Reilly and Caher, Were burnt to death in their dwelling. Another man narrowly escaped. It is suspected the fire was wilfully caused.

THE LATE LADY BANNERMAN. Vienna, September 2. Sir Henry Campbeil-Bannerman is journeying with his wife's body to England. King Edward accompanied the funeral procession to the station. The Austrian railways objected to the conveyance of the body by express, but eventually the difficu'ty was overcome. Received 3rd, 0.44 p.m. London, September 3. Lady Bannennan's interment takes place at Meigle, Perthshire, on Wednesday. Queen Alexandra telegraphed her condolence and regret.

POOD FOR SCHOOL CHILDREN. London, September 2. The Committee'on Free Meals for Under-fed School Children recommend restricting the expense to a halfpenny in the pound on the rates and recovery of the outlay from parents.

UNEMPLOYED LAND CRABBERS. London, September 2. Despite Mr Justice Phillimoie's injunction, Cunningham again headed an unemp'oyed raid on P'aistow land, and has been served with a ft rit for contempt of Court.

WELBH MINERS' STRIKE. London, September 2. Ten thousand further Welsh Fe[ierationists have given notice to itrikc a month hence, as a protest against tlie < mployment of nonunionists. Serious developments are fcated.

THE VALUE OF ADVERTISING. Sydney, September 3. The "Herald" devotes an article to New Zealand's methods of advertising, based on the appointment of Sir John Gorst as British representative to the Christchurch Exhibition, and the establishment of a tourist bureau in Sydney. The paper contrasts the efforts of New South Wales with those of New Zea'and unfavourably.

TUBERCULOSIS ON THE COLDFIELDS. Perth, September 3. Dr. Turner, an authority on chest complaints, states there is serious and increasingly prevalent cirrhous lung trouble on the Kalgoorlie field, due to the inhalation of dust partides, and that the matte is sufficiently important to warrant the State taking acfion in the matter.

TRANSVAAL DEVELOPMENT. London, September 2. The "Daily News" Johannesburg correspondent states that Lord Selbornc (H'gh Commissions) has inquired the party leaders' opinions in regard to the proposals connected with the projected loan of four millions to be guaranteed by mining houses, whereof a million and a quarter is to go to the liquidation of war claims based on military receipts, a quarter of a million to Sanna's Post railway, and a million to establish a Transvaal Land Bank. Lord Klgin. Secretary for the Colonies, proposes to appoint a Land Settlement Board divorced from politics, devoting a million and a half on this head.

HEAT WAVE IN EUROPE. MILITAHY MANOEUVRES POSTPONED. London, September 2. French manoeuvres at Seulis have been suspended owing to the heat. The heat wave in Western Europe continues at (j3deg. in the shade.