GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 46, 13 February 1908, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

STATE PURCHASE OF RAILWAYS.

Received Feb. 12, IUW P-m. London, February 12. Sir 0. Hardy'* resolution in favor of an inquiry of the State purchase ol railways was talked out, though it elicited from the Hon. Lloyd-George, President ot the Board of Trade, *n offer to inquire how far the evils could be remedied by arty change in the relations between the railways and the Btate.

J3IERICA.I CLKKENCV REFORM. New York, February 11. Senator Aldnch, in explaining his Currency Bill, said it would, in the event of an emergency, enabh £IOO,OOO of new money to be placed in the desired channels of trade within 18 hours. SOCIALISM IN ENGLAND. February 11. Despite King Edward's expressed delta for privacy, two Socialists tried to much a hundred unemployed to the Duk« of File's residence at Brighton, where his Majesty is spending a holiday. Police officers dispersed the meeting. FERE AT A CONVENT. London, February 11. A fire destroyed the Convent of tie issued Heart, at Newcastle. The nuns knotted sbeeU and towered fifty children •afely to the ground. Then the nuns themselves slipped down. EGYPTIANS' LEADER DEAD. Cairo, February 11. Mustaph* Pasha Kamil, leader of the Egyptian Nationalist Party, is dead. He kaves no successor to the leadership.

CATTEE DISEASE. Rio Janiero, February 11. The Argentine Government is prohibiting the importation of cattle from (Scotland. COMMERCIAL IMMORALITY. New Kork, February 11. The non. VT. H. Taft, Secretary for Wai, speaking at Kansas City, insisted that vigorous action was necessary to eradicate existing business abuses. Unless effective social and mora. reform--were obtained, society as at present conetitufe'd must yield to a new ord?r of things on a socialist basis. INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION". New xork, February 11. The Hon. Elihu Root, Secretary f State, and M. Juserand, the French Ambassador, have signed the treaty agreeing to submit to arbitration any diepate arising Wtween France and America. MIATICS 7N THE TRANSVAAL Pretoria, February 11. Pathans ;.nd Pungabis assaulted Gbondi and tther leaders of the Asiatic agitation In the Transvaal as the latter were proceed) ig to voluntarily register I Hem selves. TRornnE <k ixdian frontier. Calcutta, February 11. The Zakfca Khols, against whom Lord Kitchener is ending a puntivc expedition, -number 400 men. They are ?\- eeeamgly unpopular with all their neh.>!>nors.