GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81884, 9 November 1906, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

TOWNS-DURNAN SCULLING MATCH. Sydney, November S. Durnan, 'he Canadian scu:lcr, received an enthus astic welcome from t'M a<iuauc cumtnuiuty. QUEENSLAND PLANTATION LAIiOCR. Melbourne, November S. j The Central Sugar Mill Company of Queens.and, with the consent of ths federal Government, imports Italians to work the canehelds, paying them 25' a week and lations for 58 aours work.

NEGRO BATTALION IN DISGRACE. Now York. November j. Prescient Roosevt'it hu a cti-mi-.-ed an entire negro bat<a.ion tor U''clin.mg i" divulg" ■ t'.mes of comra<l'- charged with rioting and shootug into buns*- a'. Di'owdsvu.c, iix a-, and killing ;l cit.zen. WINDFALLS TO CHARITY, Lond«>n, November 7» The late Mr George Herring's cstai* amounts to about a un Uon and i half NutncP'U- ate made V, Hativo. !ti-'nds. and wrvants. £<x>w «■»" «b«- SalvatU'D Army, and the :e 6 iJu- to the l'.-j»,tal fund.

WELSH MINERS' STRIKE EX DEL). London. N"V(.'mb«-T 7. Owing to « un union.jo ning tiefederation, five thousand Welsh striker- have re-urned. Others are tollowing tlu'ir example. Y.M.C.A. CAMPAIGN. Sydney, November 8. A month' campaign to raise £is>o ■« tor 'hi- wark »f the Y.M.C.A. has tic'n -ucces-ful, the whole amount being ob'a ned.

RUSSIA'S WAR BILL. St. P'tersburg. November 7. The Ku-i:.n paper X"vo<- Vienna -•r.te, that 'hi; Trea-m-y disbursed /J 1'.7.0(0.0 .0 e n the war in tie- I-ar Ea-t toward- a iota' "t" i,i75-000.000. Eighteen mil ions j-tiil rema 11 unpaid. SEI.l'-DENIAL ITN1). Melbourne. November X. The Sa v.iti M n Army self denial •A.-ek tlif tiglvui Australa-ia_ netted £58,040, increa e of over last years effort.

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