GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 51, 19 February 1908, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

WHITE AUSTRALIA POLICY'. London, February 17. Mr. T. A. Coghlan, Agent-General for New South Wales, in a long article -in the '.rimes, replies to criticisms regarding the White Australia policy. He declares that, if Australia had not forty years ago prohibited colored immigration, she would not now be a white man's territory. EARTHQUAKES IS SOUTH AFRICA. Johannesburg, February 17. Two severe shocks of earthquake have occurred here, BANKER CHARGED WITH IHEFTS. New YorE, February 17. Charles W. Morse, a well-known banker, was arrested on returning to New York, and charge's with larceny. A' JEWEL' ROBBERY.

■Berlin, February 17The Countess of Wnrtensleben, on returning to her home at Berlin from an opera, left in her bedroom jewels worth £13,500. Half an tour later the Jewels were missing. A' maid has been ar-, rested on suspicion of having committed Hie theft. . UNITED STATES' MOTTO. New York, 'February 18. . The Coinage Committee nf the' House of representatives unanimously voted for the restoration of flip motto, "In Co -wo Trust." cm coins of the United stales. v THE MARVEL OF SURCERY. Berlin. February 17. Professor Sultan contributes' to \\ medical journal at Berlin a description of an operation on a heart pierced with a bullet . The heart was sewn and the patient cured in a week. WRECK OF A BARQUE. New York, February 11. The vessel Emily Heed, bound from New-castle to Porlnnd, was wrecked at Oregon. Eleven men were drownefl.