GENERAL CABLES.
m BALLOON RACE. New York, October 24. The German balloon Pomem won the International Cup race from St. Louis, Missouri, traversing 880 miles and finisitßg twenty-five minutes before the second balloon, which was also German.
RUSSIA'S POLITICAL PRISONERS. St. Petersburg, October 24. There are 6000 prisoners in five St Petersburg prisons and houses of detention. There are 1512 in the houses of detention alone, and these are only intended to accommodate 300. THE COMMONWEALTH TARIFF. Melbourne, October 25. In the Federal House of Representatives the preference duty on candles Was reduced from 2d to V/ 2 i per lb. EXTRADITION REFUSED. London, October 24. Frank Wertheim, who shot Woolf Joel at Johannesburg and who was recently Wrested on .a charge of levying blackmail on Jolly Joel in Paris, has l>ecn rebated. His extradition was refused on the ground that there was insufficient evidence against him.
INTERESTING QfIfIGRAXTS. London, October 24. 8b red deer and six Mongolian pheasMts were shipped by the Tongariro to the Wellington AocliinatUation Society. THL' IRISH LEAGUE. London, October 24. The central branch of the IrJßh League bm been established at Dublin.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 26 October 1907, Page 5
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