GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 5 September 1907, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

MINERS' FEDERATION. Received 4th, n!2O p.m. London, Sept. 4. Tbe North Cumberland mines, by 16,230 votes to 3013, decided to join the National Miners Federation. THE CHRISTIAN SCIENTISTS. New York, September 3. The Masters of Lunacy have found Mrs. Eddy, founder of the Christian Science Sect, to be sane. Her estate of .1200,000 has been placed in the hands of trustees. Mrs. Eddy's son declares the trusteeship satisfactory. (Mrs. Eddy, founder 'of Christian Science, was said to be in very bad health and not fit to manage the considerable property that she holds. Her son moved the courts to have the control of her affairs taken from the trustees of the Christian Science Church.

The suit was settled out of court about a fortnight ago.) "'HIE PHILIPPINES. New York, September S. The United .States Treasury has spent eighty million pounds sterling in acquiring and maintaining the Philippine;. The upkeep of the Government in the islands costs six million pounds yearly. REMISSION OF SENTENCES. Loudon, September 3. Under the new remission of sentences scheme, .Mr. Herbert Gladstone, ilonu' Secretary, has liberated 3300 prisoners convicted of minor offences. The scheme, provides that well-behaved short-term prisoners may be liberated on serving live-sixths of the term imposed. CUSTOMS FRAUDS. Paris, September 3. A Customs inspector at Paris aud the senior partner of a firm of curriers an 1 his clerk have been arrested on a eharg; of defrauding the Customs of from | .C30,()U0 to 140,000. A NEW TORPEDO.

Paris, September 3. The French naval authorities are experimenting with a turbine torpedo of unprecedented speed. The new torpedo carries a much greater charge of explosives than any former invention. A DIVING CHAMPIONSHIP.

London, September 3. Harold Sinyrk won the diving championship of England. The eompetitinu was for both plain and trick diving. BRITAIN AND AUSTRALIA. London, September 3. Mr. C. S. Hayes, Secretary to the Stock Exchange at Sydney, was !»»- quetted at Liverpool. In the course of his speech be urged England to populate Australia and secure a greater hold of her trade before America reaped the advantage of the Panama Canal. BILLIARDS. London, September 3. The Billiard Association has abolished the "cradle cannon." THE PRICE OF COAL.

London, September 3. A serious rise in the price of coal revived the agitation in Britain for the export duty of a shilling a ton to be reimposed. Manufacturers are becoming embarrassed by the increase of exports.

SEAMEN'S WAGES. Melbourne, Scptcndier 4. At a conference between the Shipowners' Federation and the Federated Seamen's Union of Australasia it was agreed that the overtime rate for seamen when a ship had been safely moored should be raised to Is 3d per hour, and that a slight increase should be mail? for boys. RIFLE SHOOTINfI. Sydney, September 4. The annual musketry returns show that the ride elub movement is rapiJiy growing in strength in the State. TASMANIAN POLITICS. ITobart, September 4. In Ihe Legislative Assembly the Leader of the Opposition tabled a motion disapproving of the persornel of the Education Commission. The Premier accepted the motion as one of want of confidence.

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