GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 5 April 1907, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

A MIMING TRAGEDY. Perth, April 4. A cage at the Waroonga Mine, eontaming thre men—Owens, Andreville, and Cattaveo—tilted, and the men were fatally jambed against the timber. One body was recovered, but the others were precipitated to the bottom. COMMONWEAL3.iI REVENUE. Melbourne, April 4. The Commonwealth revenue for the nine months increased by nearly half a ' million. SYDNEY SHOW RECEIPTS. Sydney, April 4. The show receipts totalled £BGSO, surpassing the previous year by £550. THE AUSTRALIAN FORCES. Sydney, April 4. Colonel Robin, Chief of Staff of the New Zealand Forces, is availing himself of every opportunity to witness the training of the various branches of the troops. He told an interviewer that he had heard many pessimistic views expressed by folks in Australia who really knew nothing at all about military work, but he did riot think if they had seen the work carried out that day they could have any cause to complain. NAVAL'S OFFICER'S SUICIDE. Sydney, April 4. Lieutenant Kingston of the Royal Navy, who recently arrived from England to recruit his health, committed Buicide by shooting himself with a revolver.

METRIC SYSTEM. Hobart, April 4. The Inter-.State Chambers of Commerce Conference adopted resolutions in favor of metric weights and measures and decimal coinage being discussed by the Imperial Council. AN EXPENSIVE TICKET. Sydney. April 4. A man named Coleman was 'fined .€1(1 for travelling on the Sonoma from Auek- | land without a ticket. He told the Court he went aboard the Sonoma to gtt a job, but at the last moment the man who was to have done the work turned up, Meantime the steamer had started. A PROHIBITED IMMIGRANT. Perth. April 4. Customs officials prevented the Rev. Goliath Joseph, a member of the Anglican Church in Armenia, landing on the ground that he had failed to pass the necessary dictation test. Joseph is one of several sent by the Anglican Church in Armenia to various parts of the world to do missionary work among the Armenians. STARVING TURKISH SOLDIERY. London, April 3. Expired service soldiers from Yemen are landing at Alexandretta starving and ragged. They surrounded the Coventor's house, and threatened to loot the town if not relieved. Local bankers distributed £IO,OOO, which appeased the men. A similar scene occurred on 1200 reservists landing at Beirut. BUTTER CARRIAGE. Melbourne, April 4. The Butter Freights Committee decided to cancel the contract for the carriage of butter with the White Star Aberdeen, and Lund lines from (Wo ber 1. The committee consider irregu larity in the arrival of the vessels ii London outweights the advantages o cheapness of freight. BRITISH DOCKERS AT HAM3URG Berlin. April 3. Attack, on British workers at Ham burg continue. .Many Cermuii workme: are armed with cutlasses and revolver;