GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 324, 25 January 1908, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

GERMAN UNEMPLOYED. Berlin, January 23. Prince Buelow, speaking in the Keiehsatg, said the Government was determined at all costs to preserve law and order in the streets. He warned workers not to follow agitators and sacrifice their own skins. The speech waa greeted with, cheers from the Right, anfl Socialist hisses and groans.

BIBLE IN SCHOOLS. Londqn, January 23. The Premier, Sir Henry Campbell: Bannerinan, assured a depiitatlpn iron) the Liberal Churchmen's Union, headed by Lord Percival, Bishop of Hereford, that he entirely favored the retention of simple Bible teaching in the elementary schools.

A WOMAN'S SUICIDE. New York, January 23. Lord Kitchener's sister-iulaw, the widow of Arthur Kitchener, while suffering from insomnia, climbed through the porthole of the steamer Magdalena at Colon and w s drowned. She was about to visit Colonel Kitchener at Jamaica.

SHIPBUILDING STRIKE. London, January 2tf. Six thousand of the men engaged in the shipbuilding trade in tie north-east of England tire now on strike against the reduction of wages.

THE BRUCE CASE. London, January 2a. It is feared that the f.ccusatim o 1 perjury brought against "Miss" Robinson, the New Zealnnd witness in the Drucc case, has unhinged her mini), sjie is unable to give instructions to her counsel, Mr Kimber.

EARTHQUAKE IN ITALY. Rome, JanuHry 23. A sharp earthquake was experienced at Branca Leone, in the province of Eer j azzana, Italv.

THE FRANCHISE IN GEHMANY. Berlin, January 2.1. Speaking in the Reichstag, the Chancellor* Prince Buclow, said he would not discuss his refusal to grant inanhoofl suffrage in Prussia. The question, cpncerned the Prussian Diet only. The German courts caudal* 1