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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 37, 3 February 1908, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

ARTIFICIAL DIAMONDS. London, January 31. Lemoine, the French engineer who is charged with swindling Sir Julius Wernher by obtaining from him a large sum in payment for the secret of a method for manufacturing diamonds, testified at the Court that, after he had held his manufactured diamonds for three months for microscopic examination, Mr Alfred Beit, Mr Wernher, aud others at the head of the diamond trade had ratified his agreement with Wernher. and paid him £ CO,OOO. PLAGUE-STRICKEN CITY. San Francisco, January 31. Cases of plague are still being discovered in widely separated districts of San Francisco. The number of dis- . eased rats is increasing. Physicians predict a terrible outbreak in the spring. (

UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE, Luuduii, uiinuaiy 31. The Daily Mail states th it French, Belgian and German Esperantists have planned the establishment of an independent Esperanto State in the neutral territory of Moresnet, between Liege and the Prussian Rhine province. A YOUNG ARCHITECT'S SUCCESS. London, January 31. j The design of Ralph Knott, a young and unknown London architect, Jian been selected by the London County ' Council for the new hall which is to cost >£859,000. Knott's commission i 5,£38,250.'5 ,£38,250.' ,£38,250.' , WAGES IN NAVAL DOCKYARDS. London, January 31. Lord Tweedmouth, First Lord of the Admiralty, replying to a deputation fl oin the Parliamentary Committee on the Trade Union Congress, declined to abolish the premium bonus system of payment to workers in the Government dockyards.

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