GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 21 June 1907, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

liOndon, June 18. A committee under the chairmanship of lord Farrer, appointed to inquire as to the practicability and desirability of the" Post Office, providing, in connection With the Sayings Bank, for the insurance of employers against liabilities under the Workmen's Compensation Act, reports, that itjs undesirable for the : State to embark on insurance schemes. The committee deprecates haste in the nutter.

-The Ascot Gold Cup, valued at 500 guineas, was being exhibited behind the -grand stand. It was in charge of the makers' representative and a constable, "and was stolen while their attention was : momentarily diverted, presumably by the thief and an accomplice. The cup ' was to be run fur to-morrow. The steamer Medic has a hole five feet .- square below the water-line, and a num- ' her of plates loosened and displaced. ' t . At tennis, Oxford University drew tinth the Australians, Wilding and winning two matches and Doust Roberts losing two. -'ln the House of Commons, In reply to Sir Howard Vincent, the Right Hon. 11. H. Asquith (Chancellor of the Exchequer) said the Government had not considered the desirability of offering Suez Canal shares to the Governments of Australia, New Zealand, India, and Natal the market rate in proportion to their interests in Canal. He did not think the '■• suggestion practicable. J- ■' '.-U\y Vork. June 10. & 'He A<fain3 Expnsi Company is pay- ; log a special dividend of two hundred / wr rent, amounting lr> iveiity-four milHOD. dollars Perth, June 20. Sir William Lyne, in an interview regarding the mail contract, said that ' When the Hon. Thos! Bent's offer was - made in London, be told members of the \. Syndicate that it was simply impossible « to admit the right of one State to re- • ceive advantage over the others. As to ■ latest offer, Sir W. Lyne dc- "- clared that the contract was a Federal t-- • matter, and what a State says it is willi'" ing to do may be a different thing. £ " V Melbourne, June 20. r. v The discovery of a 70-inch wide goldf -'.Bearing stone in the grave of an old cemetery at Ballarat North has caused a rush.' ,*r ' The country has been pegged for a mile round the cemetery. Sydney, June 20. Madame Albani concluded a short but highly successful season in the Town Hall. Adelaide, June 20. The capital sentences on the aborigines Combit and Donah for the murder of Bradshaw and party at Port Keats S last year have been commuted to life imprisonment.

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