GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 27 November 1907, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

ROUND THE WORLD BY MOTOR. Paris, November 25. A motor car tour organised here in February leaves New York, to which place the cars were shipped, ou a tour to Chicago, thence to Klondyke (Alaska), thence across the Behring Strait on ice to Siberia and back to Paris. GERMAN COURT SCANDALS. Berlin, November 25. As the result of revelations made at the recent trial of Herr Harden on a charge of libelling Count von Moltke. a Court of Honor is to try Count William Hohenhau and Count Lynar. FATAL MOTOR COLLISION. London, November 25. Major-General Sir Henry Colrille has succumbed to injuries received through the collision of his motor cycle with the motor car of General Sir Henry Rawlinson at Bisley. TEN YEARS FOR FORGERY. London,. November 25. •Tohn Ayfihg, Hie stepson of the Hon. John Morley, has been sentenced to ten years' imprisonment for forgery. [Ayling, a magistrate, and late partner in tne firm of Constable and Co., publishers, of Edinburgh, was charged with forging the names of the Right Hon. John Morley and Mr. William Blackie to two bills for amounts totalling £OOOO. Further charges of forgery were afterwards laid, the amount involved being £10,000.]

SPANISH ROYALTY IX ENGLAND. London, November 25. ' The King and Queen of Spain paid a visit to the Empress Eugenie. A SOUTH AFRICAN MURDER. Capetown, November 25. Thomas Kerr, of Grahainetown, has again been arrested on a. charge in connection with the murder of the girl Pinnock. FIGHTING IN MOROCCO. Moroeco, November 25. The Ifennisnassen tribe attacked a French force at Uaekikehifar, killing a spahi. The French shelled the village, killing twenty - three and wounding many. ALFHELD'S MISSING CASTAWAYS. Hobart. November 2G. A further search has been made for the shipwrecked crew of the Alfhekl, but no trace of the missing men has been found. THE WHEAT CROP. Adelaide. November 20. The Adelaide Register estimator the wheat harvest yield at 17,' HW bu.-hels, or an average of B'/i busueis per acre. TRANSCONTINENTAL MOTORING. Adelaide, November 20. Messrs. Dutton and Aunger have left here in a 24-horse-power Talbot motor car. intending to drive to Port Darwin, on the northern coast. KEIR HARDIE IN AUSTRALIA. Fremantle, November 20. Mr. Keir Ilardie, leader of the Socialist Party in the liriti-h Parliament, has ' arrived h'Te from t'olomlwi.

TERRIFIC HAILSTORM IX QUEENSLAND. Brisbane, November 2(i. A terrific hailstorm occurred at Catton. Hailstones as large as teacups penetrated iron roofs as if they were tissue-paper. Many buildings were unroofed, and some were blown down. THE COMMONWEALTH TARIFF. Melbourne, November 20. The Treasurer, Sir William Lync, sought to have the duly on corrugated galvanised iron fixed at €3 10* per ton (general duty), but the H ai-r "f K'-prc-sentatives reduced it ' ■■ 'Ma per ton on foreign goods and a preference duty of 20s on British goods. On plain galvanised iron the duty was fixed at 20s per ton for foreign goods and 10s per ton for British. Cream separators were placed on the free list.

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