GENERAL CABLES.

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

GENERAL CABLES.

London, August 12. The Athletic News states that Hayward anil Tyldesley have declined to join the cricket team to visit Australia, and that Hirst will probably not go. The balance-sheet of the Pacific Cable Company shows the net revenue for the year ending March 31 last to have been £ll3jltS. The expenditure was £90,89.3. Interest and sinking fund took £77,514. There was a deficiency of £-54.925. Sir John Davison Milium, senior partner in the Milburn Company of Shareholders, is dead. He was 50 vears old.

St. Petersburg, August 12. A military tribunal at St. Petersburg sentenced four anarchists to death and six to various terms of imprisonment with hard labor in connection with the attack on the School of Forestry and the assassination of Lcoutieff.

Berlin, August 12. A preliminary draft of the Herman Navy estimates for 1908 includes the first instalments for two battleships and cruisers, all of the largest type. I!v 1908 five battleships of the Dciitschlan'd class will be completed and ready for sea. At present only the Deutscliland and I'ommerin are in commission and. the Hanover will be ready by the autumn. It is hoped that the first full division of battleships of 18,000 tons or upwards will be afloat by 1910. Rome, August 12. Constantinople, August 12. Dramatic details have been published of Colonel Elliott's escape from the brigands in Macedonia. His captors overlooked his revolver. Colonel Elliott shot five of them, including the leader. ~w York, August 12. Commander Peary's Arctic expedition

has been postponed till 1908, owing to the failure of the contractors to instal the steamer Roosevelt's new boilers In the stipulated time. Hydncy, Augusut 13. The season's lambing has been unfavorable. Thi' limbs liorn number lO.Ofifi,IKI'I. It is not expected that more than 7.1K10.3.W will be wane,!. The failure i- due largely to severe weather.

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