GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 10 April 1907, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

RUSSIAN* REVOLUTIONARIES' SUPPLIES. london. April 8. Numerous cases, labelled 'Nails" anil "Paint," and containing cartridges and dynamite respectively, were discovered at Newcastle, whither they had been imported from Germany. They are like the explosives found at Sunderland under the guise of mechanical toys, and are apparently intended for Russian revolutionaries. ' * RESTITUTION. Rome. April 8. It is stated 111 Rome that the Italian Government has handed the l'ope nine millioi lire as restitution for property seized upon the sequestration of certain religious houses in 1870. ■" A ' CARTOON" LIBEL. ' Berlin, April 8. The Editor of the German comic paper Simplicissinmc was sentenced to three months' imprisonment for publishing a picture libelling the Woeriuaim Steamship line. AN ASSASSINATION. New York, April 8. A Guatemalan youth, aged 18, assassinated Senor Barrillas, ex-President of Guatemala, in the House of Representatives, Mexico City. TRANSVAAL RHODES' SCHOLAR. London, April 8. General Cronje'a son lias obtained a Rhode.;' Scholarship. DISASTER AT A FIRE. New York. April 8. The power-house at the Metropolitan 'Street Railway, New York, was burnt. "The filling walls killed seven liremen. CHICAGO MEAT FOR FRENCH ARMY Paris, April S. Thft French Minister for War h.o placed (he largest order on record fo: tinnal meats in Chicago. ROYAL COURTESIES. Madrid, April 8. Kin< Alfonso has appointed King Ed ward on honorary Captain-General «> the Spanish army.