GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 26 September 1907, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

London, September 21. On the occasion of the ceremony of unveiling a portrait ot Miciiacl Davitt at the Roscommon County Council buildings, John MeGrcevy, a prominent Lahorite among the public present, declared that the Irish party had degenerated into a pcnny-in-thcslot machine, a directory at Dublin holding the key. This statement caused an uproar. Several fights occurred between Councillors and the public. Policemen ejected those who e:.used the disturbance.

Lund's Line is building two 7000-ton steamers at Belfast and Aberdeen resportively. The White Star line is building a 12000-ton vessel at Belfast for the Australian trade. London, September 24. The Admiralty is constructing a four-lnillion-gallon reservoir for oil fuel at Plymouth. Oil depots are being established on the middle of the Lagos coast. The development oi the immense oill fields in Nigeria is proceeding rapidly. . Berlin, September 24. Thirty-six countries are represented at the Hygiene Conference Which sias opened here.

The North German G:\zette complains that currency has been given to false reports that Germany has designs on Tahiti. The paper admits that tile German cruiser Condor visited Tahiti, and that the German Chief Jusfice of Simon, is conducting ethnographical' studies in the island.

Athens, September 24. Three, youths were arrested at Patras for firing upon and slightly wounding an officer of the British Naval Squadron. They stated that they saw a" man with his head covered with-a. handkerchief approaching their flocks. Thinking Mm a robber, they fired" with the object of frightening Mm. Oltawn. September 24. Signor Marconi states that he will shortly inaugurate a commercial system of wireless telegraphy from Nova. Scotia to Europe. The charge will lie fivepenee a word. He says he will be able to transmit twenty word's a minute. St. Johns. September 24. Seventy fishing vessels were lost on the Newfoundland fishing banks during the storm of last week. Melbourne, September 25. At the Australian golf championship meeting Victoria proved itself the chain-1 pion State. Brisbane, September 25. Archbishop Donaldson has returned ] from New Cuhicn. ne pays a high tribute to the work dune by the Government in the past ten years. Cannibalism, be says, lias practically censed. He does not think the country suitable for white settlement.