GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 14 June 1907, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

'V, _ GERMANY. Berlin, June 12is a depression in the Bourse owing ts the uiiiuvoraJblu economic sit- , uatlon. •1 The paper Tageblatt states that pric,» ' - of bank shares have fallen by 12 to 20 . per cent, steel works by 12 to 23, ana ' ; steamship by 21 per cent, compared wuh i January quotations.

EXPENSIVE TIBET. j London, June 12. Y 6 " ews P a P er Footwear was mutated by the King's Bench in £3OOO damfor libelling Mr Soper, a bo >tBMler at Peckham, in connection with Jus campaign against boots partial'.v made of cardboard and in favor of a standard mark on those made of so'id leather.

GERMAN FIRE BRIGADE ACCUSED OF INCENDIARISM-

Berlin, June 12. The members of the volunteer fire hi igade at Siebenlehn, Saxony, have been Arrested for numerous cases of incendiarism. It is declared they were tcting- with the secret sanction of the municipality, which desired to rebuild the town at the expense of the insurance companies-

A TRAGIC DEATH. London, Juno 12. Major-General Si r Arthur Ellis, Comptroller of the King's Household, di?d suddenly in the stalls at Covent Garden during a gala performance of open. Thcj public imagined ho had only fainted. Tho news was withhold from the Kin;? 1 and the Danish Eoyal guests until affer the performance. King Edward was greatly shocked.

BECENT MURDER AND ROBBERY. Melbourne, June 13. An uneasy feeling has been created Owing to the Mint robbery and the Bauer murder. This has been accentuated by the discovery that a safe, constaining £2OO, was mysteriously opened at the Temperance Hall, and the money Removed.

COAL LUMPERS AND OTHERS. ;• Sydney, June 13.\ A mass meeting of unionist coal lumpers and others threatened to briag about a general industrial crisis if en attempt were made to crush their union. : MOROCCO. Tangiers, June 12. Meirfbers of the Diplomatic Corps here have unanimously disallowed a secret German contract for the construction of public works. N.Z. BOWLERS. London, June 12. He New Zealand bowlers beat Northampton by 28 points.

T' ORANGIA'S CONSTITUTION. | ' •BnW ir ?" ' I Capetown, Jun • 12. The Orange River leaders, Mr Abraham Fischer (a member of the o'd Volksraad and the Executive Rand of ' the Orange Free State) and Judge Ilerzog, condemn the British Government's , reservation of the control affairs under the new constitution. Th;y declare that the existence of two musters is not conducive to nnalitv or peaceCRICKETER SERIOUSLY INJURED. Capetown, June 12. J R. Mackav, the Australian cricketer, was run over by a motcn- cycle ft Johannesburg and seriously injured. METHODISM. * Svdnev, June l.t. - The Methodist Confemiec W •' tained £4143 for missionary cnfeiplis. • FRENCH WINE 111 LI- | Parirf, June M CaiHimx, Minister for »'• durin" discussion on the Wmo .■ - vise the wine growers to combine w the view to a regular output, . nd • ish inferior finality, aho to ■ »• _ the suppression of adulteration, fered to forego the land tax m years in the ease of vineyards I>'» ' under other erop?. Twenty-five municipal bodies have resigned. THE BRITISH ARMY. London, .Tune I--The Times states there is a<»od * r 1 ~ son to believe that, in pursuance of Sir Balfour'a aujrjrestion the militi > will he preserved, and will form thosp third or fourth battalions which are a* pro-vnl allotted to tho special continp-nt.