GENERAL CABLES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 6 July 1907, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES

HOIIAST ELECTIONS. Home, July 3. Atl\ anted Liberals, all of the Soeilaist ticket, carried twenty-live of the thirty vacancies in the municipal elections at Komc. Ihe result was a great surprise to the fi'overnmcnt and .Moderates. It is attributed to a wave of anti-clerical-ism and the cost of living in Koine. UliDlil! OF JIEI'IT. London, July ;j. Ihe Kill}; conferred the Order of Merit on Sir Joseph Daltou Hooker, the euiincnt botanist. (Sir Joseph is a retired surgeon of the Itritish navy. He has had many lion"is—British and foreign—conferred on him. Among other things he was surgeon and naturalist mi 11.M.5. Erebus in tile Antarctic Expedition under Sir James ltoss.) A NEWSl'Al'Ell LIBEL CASE. Berlin, July 3. Ihe Socialist newspaper Muerichcur I'ost was lined .CM, with heavy costs, for libelling I Jr. Karl I'eters. The paper reviewed stories of atrocities attributed to Dr. I'eters in Herman East Africa ill ISM. calling him a cowardly murderer. (Or. I'eters is a great explorer, and founder of Ceriuan East Africa.) EXCITEMENT IX COTTON. New York. July 3. I here is excitement in the cotton market in New York owing to the low estimate of the crop made bv the Coveriimcnt Statistical Department. Feverish buying has forced the price UJJ 02 points. HORRIBLE CRUEI/I'IES I.V CHI.W KKPOUTUD. Peking, July :i. China troops are supposed to" |, avo '•aptured cighly insiirgetils at Won" Kong. I lie I'retect ol Waichau poured burning lc.-in .. ;1 S(m „ ; tl, ( .i r bodies to extort the leader's name, but without success. MOTOR KACIXO. I'aris, duly M. Xgarro. in a Fiat car, won the motor grand prize at Dieppe, covering -177 mile-: in -40*» I minutes. 'I here wen- many accidents during the j'.ifv. >ihik? lining serious A NAIIIIOW KSCAPK. London, July 3. I lu' l>isl»np ol omlon (Dr. Ingram) wns net!«>ri\(»ulnu"v, wlirn a tree wns stnn - k l»y riwnl in trout ni tin- car. The TSislmp narrowly rsnipjul.