GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 7 December 1907, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

Loudon, December 5. As the outcome oi the pooling scheme of the Great .Northern ami Groat Neutral Kail ways, stocks have improved in value to me extent oi t» u niuiioii pounds during the week. . Tlie ilour oi the Manchester Boxing Club's room collapsed. Twenty of the spectators were precipitated into the warehouse below. All these were wit r A' '» ; i iue Australian Agents-General are arranging lor a special Australian wine bar at the Franco-British exuibition. They also contemplate making an extensive display oi refrigerating machinery and foreign goods. Dr. Ashburton Thompson, President of the New South \vales Board of Health, and Processor jualikine, addressed the Eoyal Society of, Medicine upon the subject of present methods of combating the plague in India,

Berlin, December 5. Prince Buelow's proposals to raise a large loau in order to purchase Polish estates in pursuance of Bismarck's ipolicy of the Germanisation of Poland, are meeting with strong opposition in the Prussian diet. Paris, December 5. General Picquare is considering tue inclusion of the Arubs of Algeria in the forces subject to conscription. This would add 1,000,000 men to the army available in ww time. Capetown, December 5. Cape Colony is issuing a loan of £1,01)0,000 at 4 per cent, with a minimum of 4 per cent. Sydney, December 0. The Board of Directors of the bank interested in the Lithgow Ironworks is to-day considering the action of Parliament in connection with the proposed advance of £70,000- The bank holds £200,000 worth of securities on its debt, and under these circumstances it is expected that the bank will reject Parliament's proposals. The_ interim report of the Forestry Commission recommends that the export of ironbark and tallow-wood be prohibited for ten years. The Commissioners iind that the timber resources of the State arc not of the magnitude generally supposed, and tlie forests require to be administered with the utmost caution.

• Commander Shackleton, of the Nimirod Antarctic expedition, who is on his way to join hia vessel at Lyttelton. was tvelcoined here at a representative gathering in the Town Hall. ~w Adelaide, December 0. The South Australian Labour Party jcntertained Mr. Keir Hardie, the British Labour leader, at luncheon at Parliament House. , J Melbourne, December 6. . Sir John Madden, President of the Geographical Society, is appealing for funds to assist Commander Slmckleton's expedition to the Antarctic.