GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 27 May 1907, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

CRICKET IN ENGLAND. London, May 24. At cricket, playing for Middlesex against Gloucester, Tarrant, the exAustralian, took 13 wickets for 87 runs. NAVAL SUBSIDY. Sydney. May 20. Messrs Bruce Smith aul T. 11. Kelly, members of the Assembly, in Empire. Day speeches, urged the necessity of continuing the naval subsidy.

JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA. Sydney, May 25. The Japanese Government lias invited Australian merchants to send samples and catalogues to the Tokio (.'ommerehl Museum.

X.S.W. WHEAT YIELD. Sydney. May 25. It is believed there are good grounds lor statin"; that revised estimates of the New South Wales wheat yield show a falling oil of something like i'/ s million bushels on the lirst estimate.

EDUCATIONAL. Sydney, May 'i~\. Professor Jordan, president of Levland Stanford Univer>iiy, California, is visiting Australia. lie delivered the first of a series of lectures at the University.

THE COAL LUMPERS' STRIKE. Sydney, May 2.1. The Moana was to have proceeded to Newcastle on Tuesday to coal, but the Coal Trimmers' Union there notified Mie agent of the Union not to trim the sieamiT, because she had had SOU tops of coal put into her by non-union labor at Svdnev.

AX AIiSCOXDKPv. \>',v Vnrk. 24. Ivhvjir'l Ko»ck\ one of (in? (Iwondci's of the Peking Li<ms aifsuiist tlio Kox'.ts. ant] aftonv* riN SujM'rinti'nilrnt of the Chinese Court at the St. Louis Exhibition. tlirMi-h tin' influence of American millioiuiires obtained from New Vork firms £50.000 worth of jewellery for sule among Xew Vork visitors. He' pawned tlio jewellery nncl alwnndeil, but returned tlio pawn tickets, thus reducing the actual loss (o tItUM.