GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 18 November 1907, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

| BRITISH NAVAL EXPENDITURE. i rr, Tr London, November 15. ■Hie Hon. Edmund Robertson, Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty, in a letter read at the London Chambers of ■ Commerce dinner, said: "The reductions i in the naval estimates cannot be maintained. Increases in the future aro in- • evitable, as we are now proceeding with the building of the third Dreadnought, • which, was suspended during the progress of The Hague Conference." The new Cunard liners, he added, cost an additional £15,000 per annum. BRITISH PREMIER'S HEALTH. o- -.t r, L °n<lon, November 15. sir H. Campbell-Bannerman is making satisfactory progress towards recovery. He will be able to travel in two days. REMARKABLE MURDER TRIAL. London, November 16. ihomas Kerr, caretaker of the Gams. town golf links,, has been tried on a charge of murdering Ellen Pinnock ten years ago. The woman's body was recently found under Kerr's cellar, as the result of a revelation made in a trance by a spiritualistic medium named Staples. The jury disagreed and Kerr was discharged. UNDESIRABLE IMMIGRANTS. ' Ottawa, November 15. A conference of oharltable organisations at Ottawa urged the Ontario Governments to prevent the influx of mentally and physically diseased and other undesirables. ' " GERMAN GUNBOATS BURNED. ' Berlin, November 15. Two gunboats were destroyed by a big fire in the Baltic shipbuilding yards. COMMONWEALTH TARIFF. Melbourne, November 10. The tiinlT debate has been adjourned till next Wednesday. Sewing machines have been placed on the free list. NEW SOUTH WALES POLITICS.

Sydney, November 16. The Budget debate in the Legislative Assembly has been closed by the application of the closure, RAILWAY COLLISION. Melbourne, November 16. As the result of a mistake in signalling, a passenger train collided with a goods train at Laverton. One passenger was severely injured and several others slightly.

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