GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 20 November 1907, Page 4

GENERAL CABLES.

A MAGNIFICENT WEDDING. London, November 17. Louise, sister of the Duke of Orleans, and Charles Bourbon, brother-in-law of the King of Spain, were married at Wood Norton with great magnificence. Tlie arrangements were like those of a royal wedding. Among tlio.se present were the Queen of Portugal, the King and Queen of Spain, Princess Henry of Battenburg, and several foreign representatives. The wedding presents are valued at nearly a million pounds sterling. The preparations for the wedding cost over £IOO,OOO. MAURITANIA'S MAIDEX VOYAfiE. I/indon, November 17.

The Cunard liner, Mauretania has sailed for New York. Her cargo is valued at £1,700,000. THE NEW* DOUMA. I St. Petersburg, November 17. A majority of those present at the opening of the Douma sang the National Anthem four times and wildly cheered the Czar. There are a few peasants and many priestly deputies in the ncw Ilouse. .Most of the deputies are more cultured than those of the previous Douma. THREATENED SAWMILL STRIKE. Sydney, November 18. Trouble is brewing in the timber trade. The .sawmill hands threaten drastic action unless their demands for higher wages arc conceded. THE WORKERS AND SOCIALISM. London, November 17. The Hon. A. J. Balfour, in opening the Unionist Labor Club at Aston, emphasised that the welfare of the community depended on its productive capacity. If workers regarded their own true interests they would never accept eolleclivist theories, which would make them the tools of a bureaucracy.

BRITISH RIFLE TEAM. Hobart, November 18. Members of the British rifle team were successful at the T'asmanian Rifle Association's meeting. They won the Mackenzie and Evans matches. NOISY SUFFRAGETTES. London, November 17. The hall stewards carried thirty suffragettes bodily from the Hon. 'if. 11. Asi|uithVi meeting at Nuneaton, Warwickshire. The speaker was shouted down continually. TIIE NEW PROTECTION. London, November 17. The Spectator, commenting on Sir A\. Lyne's extraordinary scheme "to secure the interests of manufacturers, workers, and consumers under the tariff," remarks: 'lie is attempting to abrogate all economic laws by Act of Pari lament.; but the laws of supply and demand, though ignored, nre certain to re-assert themselves." GERMAN GUN HO AT DKSTROY KD. Berlin, November 17. Two more gunboats have been burned in the Baltic yards. Incendiarism is suspected.