GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 303, 27 December 1907, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

Luiiaoa, uetcuiber io. Ueorge Tuuuipauu .ma c.omp.n v twinetiew -icauier rcncies, or u iu.i nage between il.oou uuu 12,'WJ, uu... by llurlunu and xuiil loi the au>uju..,. trade, has been launched. Among tne pall-ixareis at the buna. of Lord Jveivuis remain- in Westm.u ■tier Abbey were tne lion. John Jloiu.s Karl Stratf-cona, Lord Jiayleigu, Sir ...- cJtibald Ueikie, tue eminent scientist, aiw Admiral Kdward Seymour. , Air L. UinnelJ, -Nationalist M.l'. loi AVestmeath .Norm, who was sentence! to imprisonment lor coiuiuitting contempt of Court in a speech in favor <■! cattle driving, has disappeared. Irish Xationalist newspapers are actively discussing whether the present Secretary lor Ireland, lion. A. Uimll, should be given another chance to introduce desired reform*. Seven hundred officers and men, veterans of the Indian mutiny campaign. dined at Albert liall to-day in coiniuc.n oration of that war. The dinner waorganised by the Daily Telegraph, Hi ■ Otuciali. of the War UUiee and the Ad miralty cooperating, lord Koberis presided, r ~-, .' Sew York, December 23. The restrictions placed on Sabbath amusements have failed, and Sunday entertainments have recommenced at th.Ueatres and dancing halls. Home, December 23. A wealthy Veronese engineer was found dead in the Kome-Ancona. express train, lie had been stabbed thrice in the body and robbed of title deed; valued at JCH.UW. A man believed to be I'aiza wan arretted at Uuirgevo. He escaped and committed suicide by jumping under a train. [Panitza was "wanted'' on a charge ol murder, iie was a .Macedonian, and member of an Austrian revolutionary organisation. There was a split in tins body, and at the in-tigation ot Sandabki, the leader of one section, l'auit/a killed the leader of the other setti.ii. Saratoff, and two others.] Brussels, December 23.

Tlic liberals, the Socialists, and a section of the Catholic deputies of t le- . Chamber of deputies, are vigorou-ly opposing the Congo annexation projios- | als. M. Bernaert, ex-Premier, declared i he would not permit the revenues of i lie t Crown Domains to be devoted to bisn- I rioUi objects in llelgium while the "■ j lony's ordinary budget was only balanced by the of natives, an abuse w'.ich lkdgians were de tenuined tu stop. Vienna, December S-i. Dr. Alexander Wekerlc, the Hungarian Premier, and M. (icna Folmiyi, ex-Minister for Justice, fought * duel at Uuda Pesth owing to a Parliamentary quarrel. After two bloodless bouts the combatants were reconciled. Durban, Xovember 2:!. The Ciovcrimicnt i- about to arrest tie chief Silwane. who controls nearlv j 10.00U men. lie is reco-mscd a- tlie most powerful eliief in Xatal. formerly he displayed a loyal attitude, Inn lat- ' | terly his actions have been sUi-pii ion-, j, Vienna, November l'>. H'[ By a triek- similar to that adopt-,I In the (lerinaii importer Kopt?nk-li -.me |f months ayo. a man gained am'" t,i tieP regimental sale at Vienna .ir-i-n.i! an.i it abstracted tliOO. \y lli;rlin. DeeemU-r _'-",. nL The ap|iral ol Count Klin. ~.n L Moltke anain-t the decision of the W 1 Court Heir Harden of a tl[ .charge of lilxd. will be beard in e.iinci.i. 11l Klbirts t.i elfeet a re, iliatii.n be(«'the Kaiser's in-i-tcrnr that Count M-jMke m. .must entirely rehabilitate liim«fll'. m The li.ii.pie ' Ani.-1.-i - b.ain-1 lKfrom St. Pierre i Mi.pieloui i.. St. Ma!, Wwith seventy live |x-r-,.n- .-a U.an! rHerew and passenaefs -foun-l -red. All lllhands were l>