GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 5 December 1907, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

ANNEXATION OF THE CuNtiO. — "" Brussels, December '«. '.' State plenipotenu.nes represcn.i.g Belgium and tue Congo have signed la. annexation treaty. ' KECHST FINANCIAL STRESS- • New York, December 3. An influential group of financier:.. prfter discussing the financial crisis at the Academy ot Political Science, Philadelphia, advocated the establishment of A central Government bank, whicii ahould handle Government hnances and possess the sole right to issue bank note*. m * «*.£ j.i Out of twenty-five million pounds Sterling of gold imported to New York since the outset of the crisis, twentythree and a half millions are fqom

~ ( . AFFAEBS IN IRELAND.

» London, December 3. Mr. L. GinnelL member of Parliament for North Westmeath, speaking at (Tipperary), declared that the Bon. A. BirreU's promise to do what the people -wanted, if their demand was nude with sufficient courage and energy, meant that they ought to pursue cattledriving vigorously. The Westminster Gazette urges the government to prosecute members of toe House of Commons who have been j^ififing cattle-drivers, especially Mr. ['] A BKAVE SUFFRAGIST. I London, December 3. A woman suffragist meeting at Not | l "n^h.T-. | arranged by Miss Pankhurst the suffragist leader, was broken u| by students. The students liberate* tame mice on the platform while Mis! Pankhurst was speaking, fcfce caugh them and fondled them.