GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 6 December 1907, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

A FASHIONABLE WEDDING. London, December 4. Dr. Ingram, Bishop of Loudon, oiiiciated at the marriage of Lord Loreburn and Miss Hicks-Beach. • The marriage was the first ever solemnised iu the crypt of the chapel at Westminster Hall. A large gathering of society people was present. _^, LORDS v. COMMONS. London, December 4. Lord Tweedmouth, First Lord of the Admiralty, Bpeaking at Chelmsford in reference to the House of Lords, declared that :it was ridiculous that anyone simply by right of bin.li should be able to veto the actions of the people's elected representatives.

THE " UNWRITTEN LAW." New York, December i. Mrs. Annie Bradley was acquitted on a charge of murdering Senator Arthur Brown. The verdict was based on tne "unwritten law." Brown had seduced the woman and then refused to marry hoT ' ___j~,.:.»fc;»U«latt SHORTAGE OF PAPER PULP. Washingotn, December 4. President Roosevelt proposes to repeal the duty on wood pulp. Many halfpenny newspapers are increasing their prices owing to the shortage of pulp. LIMITATIONS OP JETHEKGRAM!r\

Berne, December 4. Wireless eonununicatious between Btilions on Mount Righi and the Canton do Valois failed owing to the mountains between blocking the messages. Many messages were received at the Canton d<i Valofa ' , .., 1 6.,-srilfltiltf THE NEW HEBRIDES. London, December 4. | The New Hebrides Company, Ltd., has been registered as an exploration and trading corporation. It has adopted the provisional agreement entered into by M. le Clerc. '. GERMAN AIEICA, ,' , ;

Berlin, December & Herr Denberg, Director of Colonial Affairs, who hu returned from Africa after inventing methods of colonisat on there, proposes to develop railways

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