GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81872, 23 October 1906, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

CANADIAN-AUSTRALIAN TRADE. Received 22nd. 10.5$ p.m. Ottawa, October 22. Sir Wilfrid Laurier is con>idering <thc advisability of increasing Canada-Australan Steam-hip Company's subsidy, conditionally on the company employing two new vessels.

FRENCH POLITICS. Received 22nd. 10.5S p.m. Paris, October 22. M. CAemcnccau 1: forming a Cabinet THE CUBAN CYCLONE. Havana, October 22. Received 22nd. 10.5S p.m. A cyclone damaged Cuban croplo the extent of two million sterling. COPPER FIELD DISCOVERED. Received 22nd. 10-5* p.in. London, October 22. A Swedish expedition discovered and rich copper deposits at Aiangarssnak. in Greenland. PETROLEUM TRUSTS' WAR. London. October 21. The Darty Mail states that Ruhs thilds, the Deutsche Bank, and Nobel Brothers, of St. Petersburg, have formed a European Petroleum Union, with a capital of a million sterling, which will be backed up by the French, German, and Russian Governments, the object b.'ing the amalgamating of the oil proptrti'- of Roumania, Galicia, and Germany. The Union pro]>o-e s to fighi th° Standard Oil Company. AN INVALIDED CAPTAIN. Sydney, October 22. Captain Joslin, ma s ter of ihe river steamer Sainam. recently raptured by Chinese pirate* in ih' West River, has arrived from Hongkong, en toute for New Zealand, to r (, euj>c;atc. Captain Jcs'.in i* still -uffering from a bullet wound in tli.;- breast received during the attack. PASSENGER SHIP TORPEDOED. London. Oc'ober 21. Reutor report' thai the Ru"ian steamer Viariag >truck a torpedo at .Vladivostok and tank immediately. Two hundred passenger.- perished. One was .r'stird.

ACCIDENT IN A THEATRE Mclb-urne, October 22

Marion F.dwarcN, recently arroi'i! in Brisbane for personating a man. while doing .1 •■ii.irp'lioo:, r\ "turn" at a cydorama ~\vv- ai I'd-ntal': shot Mrs Mct"l"U<!. \.<fe of anorhe. performer. The wounds were m>; strious. BRITAIN'S DF.FFXCF.S. London, October 21. Lord Roberts s|v ■.,' ing at Kdinburgh, said he feared the Right Hon. R. B. Haldan- s ideal of a large reserve consisting of the ab!e-!,od!e<! <j; the nation would prose ,> failure v.lien an emergency arose. A3IERICAI. TRUST FRAUDS. Nrv. Vo-k, O;o|,er ix. Judge fio't. of tor United Str.tCircoit Court, New York, fined th•New York Central Railroad jCzi.rrx] for granting rjbiiv- to the Ameriean Sugar Trust. Pomcroy. a-si-tan"-trafric manager, was fin-cl £i2m. Judge Holt declared the ch*- exceed •rd in heinousness the vulgar crimes of sudden passion. A TRF.ASIRF. HUNT. London. Ocmber 21. A protect »■= ;<f' ■'•' '•< -ar'li the -lvr> "Roval Charter, jv:e- k"l in ISSO. She had a vnluabV "'r.-ignm' nt of Au ; - tialian gold on Irnrd.