GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 20 December 1907, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

London, December 18. The Pall" Mall Gazette says the "All lied" route would prove highly expensive and would involve a heavy annual charge on the British exchequer. There would be no chance of compelling a foreigner to pay such a form of preference. The Gazette adds: "The higher the Bill is, the more conspicuous the inconsistency of the free-trade' Government." The Daily News, commenting on a large demonstration at Queen's Hall in favor of women's suffrage, urges the )nand, which is only an elementary act Liberal Party to boldly concede the deof justice to women.

Lord Elgin, Secretary of State for the Colonies, endorses the Transvaal Government's policy, requiring officials in country districts to be able to speak Dutch.

New York, December 18. • It is estimated that twenty men were killed liy the explosion at the Yolande mine at Birmingham, Alabama. Teheran, December 18. A thousand roughs • joined the reasuonanes at Teheran, and committed several murders.

Ton thousand Nationalists everted [ lwmeiiiles round Parliament TliiiMmjjs. ihe Shall sent two courtiers to Parliament an adjustment. ParImmcnt's repfy contains demands for Die exile of two reactionary ringleaders. St. Petersburg, December 18. hundred and fhirty-onc former Deputies to the Donmn are shortly to 1 be tried at St. Petersburg. Of these, i eighty-isevon belong to the Constitutional Democratic Party.

The editors and staffs of two St. Petersburg newsnapers, numbering one hundred in all. have been arrested on suspicion of belonging lo revolutionary organisaiion-.

Sydney, December 11). Bot fly is prevalent in the flathurst district. The pest has now taken to attacking birds.

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