GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVIII, Issue 81918, 7 March 1907, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

JUDICIAL CHANGE*. .Received l>. 10.58 p.m. London, -March 0. AY. Fickfurd, Recorder at Liverpool; has succeeded -Mr Justice Kennedy in J the King's Bench division. TilE FLAUUE. Received 0, 10.58 p.m. (Sydney, March C. Another case of plague is reported. TilEllt MAJESTIES' I'OIITKAITS. llcce:vcd (i, 10.U p.m. London, March i; - King Edward h presenting a signal portrait of himself and Queen Alexandra to the capitai of each South African colony. PRACTICAL ENTHUSIASM. Melbourne, March C. There was a wave of enthusiasm at ilie Wesleyan Conference Minion, .C2UOO liciiig tubscribed in ({nick time. .MAIL CAIIIUACE It^S^DISPUXK. Melbourne, MnTPtN". The long-atanUuig dispute IwlwSiSl. the Oceanic Company and the L'ostal Department has been settled. will lie paid to the Company, which will in future be pad at the lederal rate of is per pound for mails to Vv Zealand and the Postal Union rale r.l lis 7d for mails bejond New Zealand. The arrangement covers over a period fn.ni the date of the transfer of the Post Office to the Federation.

JI.YIIV ixu AT PliKTIf. lVrth. 'March (>- In connection with the charge against. Mix Mitchell uvidemce was given U> the diccl. that out of 32 infants placed in her charge 20 had died, the canst- ol death in nearly all cases being maiadmits.

Till'. WIIITKI-KV JLl'ltlJUKKl!. London, March 5. Itanior w:i> committed for trial lnl ' the murder of William Wh.teley, the •Timersal Provider."

SEW lIKIUtUHV CONVENTION I' 01! ItKfjVON DKNX'I''.

London. "March •">. Mr Winston Churchill (tlnder-Secre-Hi'Vl states that Lord E\r>» (Secretary lor 1 lie Colonies) had frequent communication with Sir J''*- V- r i?»u'i.. Tf.gh Cinmn'ssjonev for the A\«'*ictu lati ic. nll d after the New ' 11 ' Convention had been rtjnHM. h' d■ - „„t intend to publish the conhdcntul on 1- u ' subject. CONSKIIVIM! A.MKUICAX FOUHSTS

New York. March IVsUI..::! llwlt !>»' prw'mimwl „ ow f,m>l nil in- llic \"i icuU iirul wliWi seek-, to |>r'vent -"Hell reserves without Hie "lllsent uf t'oimre-s.