GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 27 August 1907, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

AMERICAN NAVAL MOVEMENTS.

London, August 25. >; I It was officially announced after a [conference between President Roosevelt = : and the Navy Department that sixteen battleships would sail in December via, the Magellan Straits for San Francisco, A flotilla of destroyers will sail at the 1 ■ same time, but it will not accompany • the fleet. - iaj NEW P. AND 0. LINEBS.

London, August 25, ; J The Peninsula and Oriental Steam V , Navigatl n Company has ordered three •]) ; steamers of the Moldavia class and. an * - express steamer. Their displacements 3 will aggregate 40,000 tons. The cost ■;I will largely exceed a million pounds. , OBITUARY.Melbourne, August 20. Jules Joubcrt, the exhibition manager, is dead. LACROSSE. Perth, August 20. The Canadian lacrosse team defeated West Australia by 12 goals to nil. 1 * AMERICAN BUTCHERS' STRIKE.- ■ ■ London, August 26. ' Twelve thousand drivers employed 111 ' j th 3 wholesale meat trade in New York ' have struck work. ' TUB TELEGKAPH TROUBLE. . New York, August 25. The telegraphists' strike has appar-i ently "fizzled out." (Advices received at the New PJy. 'i mouth telograph office yesterday from Bamfleld stntion (the Canadian Paolfio • : j terminus) states that the embargo ■".s American traffic has now been removed and the strike settled as far as Canadian transit is concerneij. Messages may now be accepted subject to deUv * on American lines orifr Another mes- % sage states that messages nosteri in tt'l 0 " reached there l on m °™n? and went for- 'X ward The extra mail arrangements have been cancelled for the future.

ANTWERP" DOCK STRIKE. Tl ,„ Antwerp, August 25. ±ne Shipowners federation at Antwerp has voted a million francs for resisting the dock, workers who are on strike.

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