GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 310, 7 January 1908, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

| THE KING OF PORTUGAL. . Received tita, U.£> jmu. I Luboa, januiiy 0. Kiag Carlo* Juu accepted I'reciUeul I Fuuuu' invitation to vi»it Brazil w •Uj. \ INTERESHKU NEWS, j Received Utti, 'J.lj pjn. l Lonaun, umuu) V. CoHßteas oi Yarmouth intends to fW lot a nullity ot marriage. AN EMIXENT PUXIST. London, Jjnuarv j. Mr flirir Hamburg, the eiuineui will make a three *noultis tour oi Australia and 2«eir Zealand] next year, opening in bydnej- in Jul}'. PHILLIPS SHOuiING CASK. LonUou, January o. It transpires that pr<or to tbe aboutilg, Major Coatea l aimpa asKeii u |r wue, from wbom he wa* divorced, to ra Tninj hfa*- 6he reiu>**l- -M the JHjaeat on Phillip* a verdict of insanity wu returned. ihe wifi*« im> Uker fits succumbed to her injuries. [Major Phillip* last wwk euivirii »> prise's residence in iiaiupsjure and mioi at her. She fled alter the tir»L nnd reached safety. Xhe Major alioi feet ethl a solicitor uanuMi Ue then committed suicide.]

BRITISH RAILWAY DISI'ITE Lonuoo, Jiiminrj Mr Richard Hell, AI.P., wu Oenaii m the Railway Mens Society, oi which be is secretary, complains that the Loudon and North We»l«m Company U taking \ » ballot of its employees to ascertiim whether they are willing that tlie com may should bear the whole cost of the Conciliation Board and arbitration pro reeding! under the new scheme iiiaieaa W! the companies ana the employee Bharirg the cost. Mr Bell declares this b a violation of tbe spirit of the agree sent, and a transparent attempt to jwek the Conciliation Boards with nonunion mea.

DEMISE OF A CHAMPION SCULLER • Ottawa, January 5. E. Hanlon, formerly sculling champion of the. world, is dead. It ha/ fieen decided to accord him a civic funeral. [Hanlon won the championship lr»m Trtekett in 1880, and retained it till 1884, heating Trickett again and ai*' lareoek (twice) and H. W. Boyd, of Newcastle. In 1884 he was beaten '■> Beach. Four times afterwardchallenged for the championship, but tmwM beaten each time—twice hy Reach and twice by Kemp.]

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