GENERAL CABLES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81891, 20 November 1906, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES

GERMANY'S COLONIAL WAR. Berlin. November iS. Supplementary Estimates introduced in the Reichstag provide for a million and a half sterling tu cover ihe cost of the operations in South\\es; Africa. Four thousand troops return to Germany in tne spring, leaving S2OO.

NEW YORK ELECTIONS. New York, November 18. Mr llearst certifies nis expenses in the New Y'ork election at .£55.000, and Mr Hughes expenses aTe certified at Hearst paid all his party expanses in connection with 'lie «lection, and Mr Hughes only did his own.

DEATH IN A SUGAR BIN. Sydney, November t<> j A man fell into the Sugar Com- 1 pany's drying vat and was buried ] under fifty tons of sugar. He was , taken out dead. t VISITOR'S IMPRESSIONS OF j NEW ZEALAND. | Melbourne, November it). Sir Ricnard Baker say» the extent :f the New Zealand Exhibition surprised him, and the prosperity of 1 the people particularly struck bim. He saw no one unemployed or illdretsed or beggars. A STEERABLE BALLOON. Paris, Noyejnber 18. A steerable balloon, Tne I'iitria, carrying six persons, ascended from Paris and perfumed evolutions in all directions. It then returned to the starting point.