SATURDAY'S CABLES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81890, 19 November 1906, Page 2

SATURDAY'S CABLES

ROOSEVELT'S ENGLISH DISCOUNTENANCED. New York, November 16. The Board of Education refuses tq countenance President Roosevelt's spelling reform. CONTROL OF WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY. New York, November 16. A combination is being formed with! New York capital, amounting to 23 .million dollars, with the object 08 bringing all wireless telegrapu com* panics, operating in England, the United States aud Canada, under onq control. INDUSTRIAL STRIKES. Adelaide, November 17. The timber trade employees and butchers are seeking increases oj wages and threaten to strike. Melbourne, November 17. , The area of the building strike is widening, and it is estimated tna.ll 2000 arc effected. TRAINING CANADIANS TO SHOOT. Ottawa, November 16. Mr Borden, Canadian Minister for, Defence, states tnat every schoolboy, there who had reached the age of 13would shortly be trained to rifle. snooting. , INCENDIARISM, London, November 16. _ After a series 0 f incendiary fires at Croydon, one involving tho" loss oS ,630,000, four men have been arrested. They confessed to being tin authors of the tires. A COSTLY TEST. London, November 16. Tho cruisers Doris and the de« Biroyer Vixen bombarded the wreck* ed warship Montagu with a viea to testing guns versus armour. VALUABLE SHARES, London, November 16. Several N«w Vaal River Diamond Company founder's shares have been sold by auction in London. The first one brought ,63250, and was re-auc-Honed a few minutes afterwards and brought ,66250. NEW HEBRIDES APPOINTMENT) Loudon, November 16. Mr Winston Cnurchill, Under-Sec-retary for the Colonies, has announced that members of the Australian Bar wnl be eligible for legal -appointments 111 the New Hebrides. Their applications would be considered along with others suitable.

A RAID THAT FAILED. London, November 16. Ram stopped the suffragists' in* tended raid on the House of Cornmons yesterday. FREETRADE ADMINISTRATOR London, November 16. Mr Haldane, Minister for War, states that restrictions of a preferential protective character are being removed from the War Office contracts, in accordance wit tho Go-. vernmont's freetrade policy. A LABOUR SAVING DRILL.

Johannesburg, Nov. 16. The Johannesburg Star reports the complete success of a drilling machine which will enable four natives to do work which now takes fourteen, using hand drills. The newspaper declares tho development indicates a solution of the labour problem. BULGARIA'S WARNING. Sofia, November 16. M. I'etkoff, the new Bulgarian Premier, has announced in tho Sobronge, that it was Bulgaria's duty to. strengthen her army if she wished to be taken into account in tho event of changes. He warned the Porta to execute reforms in Macedonia i£ she did not desire foreign interven.l tion. A BIG NUGGET, Sydney, November 17. A nugget weighing , 3S oullce g was found near Wellington. OBITUARY. Sydney, November 17. The death is announced of Mr Olltf Deering, actor. "