GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81841, 6 September 1906, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

EXCITEMENT IN INDIA. Calcutta, September 4. There is excitement in India owing to the crowning at Calcutta, with regal honours, of Nalh Banerjee, leader of the agitation against the partition; of ' Bengal. The native {iress condemn the proceeding. HEAT WAVE IN EUROPE. London, September 4. There have been numerous deaths from heat in the United Kingdom and abroad. MILK SCARCE IN LONDON. London, September 4. There is a great scarcity of milk in London. BTOLEN COLD ENQUIRY SEQUEL. Perth, September 5. A man named Mcorc was sentenced to six months' imprisonment for furnishing fa'se returns in connection with a gold selling transaction. CHICACO DELICACIES. | Perth. September 5. -j Eighteen thousand pounds of various kinds of canned meat and fish were srii!i*a "by the authorities. They were badly blown and unfit for con-, sumption. It is asserted the bulk was packed in Chicago. UNPRECEDENTED ARCTIC' VOYACE, Cbristiania, September 4. There is enthusiasm in Scandinavia at the news of the unprecedented feat accomplished by Captain AnundseVs expedition, aboard the Gjon, in voyaging in a westerly direction and navigating tie- ityjrtjil we?t Passage. .The vessel has arrived at Ca[te Nome, Alaska. LAUNCH OF A BATTLESHIP. Received sth, q.*i p.m. ■ London, September 5. The batttleshiji Lord Nelson has bfn bunched at Jarrow. A NAVAL SENTENCE. j ' Received 5,h. 10.42 p.m. London, September 5. Robert Charles Taylor, signalman -in the cruiser Vindictive, was sentenced at Sherrness to two years' im--prisenment for throwing the flotilla signal book overboard.