GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81863, 12 October 1906, Page 4

GENERAL CABLES.

AN OPIUM SMUGGLER. Johannesburg, October <> An Englishman was heavily tiinc! at Johannesburg for smuggling opium for Chinese through Oe'agca 13ay. , FEDERAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN. Melbourne, 10. Mr G. 11. Rcid opened the election campaign at Warrnambool. He declared only two parties were pos-ibl' in ihe next Parliament. A Deakin paity was impossible. HOME RULE FIGHTING FUND. New York. October <> Mr T. P. O'Connor, M.l\, addie«ei a meeting at Boston. The s.m of £2OOO was subscribed for >he Home Rule Funds. MOROCCAN AFFAIRS. Moroceo, October y. The Sultan of Moroceo is stiH affording protection to . the fanatical sorcerer Malean, whose followers beat the German Consular agent at Marakish and maltreated the representative of a German firm. / THE PANAMA CANAL. New York, October <). The Panama Canal will be consulted by contract. IIOW. TO SECURE PEACE. New York, October t> President Rooseve't, in acknowledging an inter-Parliamentarv Union medal presented in recognition f his efforts to treminatc the Ru-so-Japanese war. expressed the hope that the world's peace would be lasting. The best way to secure peace was to learn to shoot straight.

STRIKERS SHOT. Ottawa, October to. Strikers tried to prevent the working of timber mills at Buckingham, near Ottawa. The police fired, killing three and wounding eleven. A BRAVE SOLDIER. Calcutta. October n Captain Idles, son of c:. iie-,it Flies, was drowned at Rurki. India while attempting to re«:,/■! bis orderly.