GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 30 May 1907, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

•ENGLTSfI EDITORS- IN GERMANY. Berlin, May 28. Forty English newspaper editors and -writers, including several of eminence, are visiting Berlin. Munich, Frankfort, Dresden, and Cologne as guests of a committee representing all sets of politicians and society.

VANDALS' CRIME. Berlin, May 28. The great bell "Savoyarde," subscribed bv the people of Saxony for the Church of the Sacred Heart, Montmartre was irrctreviably cracked by vandals. It cost several thousand* sterling.

AS ADMIRALTY DENIAL. London, May -is. Mr. Robertson, Secretary to the Admiralty, declared that the Standard's statement with reference to alleged reductions in the gunnery torpedo staffs Tras an absolute lie.

QUEENSLAND SO JAR INDUSTRY. Brisbane. May 20. A. representative deputation of sugargrowers waited on Sir John Forrest (Acting-Federal Premier), and urged the Government to introduce suitable labor on the sugar plantations. The deputation agreed that the abolition of the bounty of £3 and excise of £4, with the retention of an import duty of £O. .would lie better for the industry.

L ERRORS IN' TOKSS CABLES. Melbourne. May 2!i. Various complaints having been made as to errors in press call's from Eng land, an inquiry shows Unit tin? Indiai lines are chietly to blame. Tin- Indiai iGovernment lias been communicatee -;with.

J)R. BAINEY'S SUCCESSOR. ' London. May iB. The Rev. Marcus Dods lias been elect ed principal of New College, Edinburgh. in succession to the late Dr. Raincy. (Professor Rniney died while on a visit to Australia. The new principal was born in 1834, and lias been Professor of New Testament Theology, Edinburgh, since 1880. He has published several religious works.)

WESTRALIA'S TREATMENT OF BLACKS. Loudon, May 28. The Revs. D. B. Smith and Crowe, of Yerth, are attending the Assembly of ths Church of Scotland. Mr. Crowe described the condition of things in the north-west of Western Australia as shameful, because (he white men were dragging the blacks down. Sometimes the conduct of the whites rendered the missions to the heathen almost impossible.

IIGHT V \I\M IWMI (il CVHI \r London lln ". "Baron Rotlwlnld intir\iL\i I il "Mr. Roosevelt's attack on (he raili i the income tax and othei pr< bl n in Trance and the Socialistic hiom nil m JtoglandjMfere killing tiie goose that hud