GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 5 August 1907, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

London, August i!. David Christie Murray, novelist, is dead, aged 60. Judges iiave decided agaiust the claim t d- aJlu tf treiiSfc" to be applied to liquor they manufacture, because the new undertaking at Tarragona, Spain, rendered necessary by their leaving France, is not a continuation of their old business in France. It is reported that the Hamburg, Wacrmann and German-Australian lino of steamers are charging the same rates, to South African ports as the British company's.

New York, August 2. A wave of crime, mainly directed agaiust women and children, is pafslna over New York. A girl eighteen ycai! of age lias been shocking, y mutilated, ihc police warn women and children not to venture abroad after dark. Capetown, August 2. The chances of refloating the Russian ship Orient, ashore on the South African coast, are considered doubtful. Durban, August 2.. I.lie Natal Government has decided' not t'> reqinut die Imperial Government [to make money refunds in connection •villi ilir South Af'iia'i war. Tonquin, August 2. The French Resident at Annara has confined Kl>ng T.i ,hHr to the Pa!a<-u and foiistitutsd the Minister of Justice Kfgeat.

~ . „ Sydney, August -3. Broken Hill, the mining town, has been proclaimed a city. Good iainß are almost general, I'here are floods at Broken Hill. ~ The epidemic of influenza in tho citv is subsiding. * riie police are baffled over the OuirrTnffV' a f e f 3 l' • ThCTe I® 00 tlare " f To «- wJ it. BB l ectheart and then bafteied her head in.] There is a prospect of a bulldinjr boom Sydney. Work at preset iu jhaige of the Government A«hiteA\ Department will cost nearly two miliimpound.s The Federal Government id csS«i? Crect large Btws at a cost «'

it inj i Brisbane, August a. It ; ias been discovered Mmt n en,, containing treasury note forms ii»~ h.e.l p.Ungod, Two bundles, ™ h taming a thousand notes, are , 'is S " Bang unsigned, they are wluelcs "