GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 55, 24 February 1908, Page 4

GENERAL CABLES.

AAI.F. KYFENSIuX. London, t-'ebu.ary 21. The appeal va-e ol Campbell tSydllev) versus the Au-traliau Mutual Provident Society, in wild. Hi., appellant, sought to prevent tin v x .|eii n ex lending Hi busine-e outside tlie Lo.imi"Uwe.ilth aufl Ncw-iJ'Hihii.l, was argued licfoio file -Judicial CO.illiiillce ol'tlic ll<.il-c of Lords. Atier hearing th,- app.-ll mi's ease their L'.rd-mp.s intimated tiiai they .lid not de-iic i.j icar coun-cl tor respondents. 'l'lii-y would give their reasons later tor their doi-io,, ihat the company had no ca-e lo answer.

A FKAIIIIL FNl'Ui.-IoN. San Franrisfo, lebriiary Two thou-imt one hundred and ten ton* of dynamite .xploded in a building of the Jlemrtes I'ow.l.r Works at lierkeki, CaliJoruia. killing four while cm ployee- and twenty-four Chinamen. . | •;'POVERTY IX NKVV YORK. New York. Fei»ii.irv 21. 'U H o'tliiially -tated that over a million and a -quarter p.-ison.s in New York, city are in need ..f relief. A OKLINiMK FIXI). The dead bo.i; ui .ti'.iry ..ici.e.in, a woman ot .sit, »„- i0.. a ., .., oig at .... i..

sideuce, where siie iiu.l ui.u ji.r u.iiigii ter, aged ii. Aifutiuu w.t, unraceU by a leartul uuoi euianating ii'.iu liepremises. iUtjiLiv ri-U'.te.i toe lau that tlie ola Imu .ij'--l ai-t-ut .i ne,k ago, hut the would not allow •nyonc to enter' "tii c room, a- die declared her mother was .[uielly sleeping. and must.no.ti be dijt urbed. A DANtiKItUCS LI NATIC.

Adelaide, Fehruaiy 22. I An unknown man ran amok at a boarding home here. He tired live tdiote at a woman and then barricaded himself in his room. He tired live shots at the detectives who with a constable came to arrest him. All the shoti missed their mark- The detective liiod three shots and slightly wounded the man. The disturber fought desperately till he was arrested. No motive for his conduct is known.

IKFLUENZA EPIDEMIC. London, February 21. Here are one hundred thousand people suffering from influenza in London. Three Jlinisters of the Crown, Sir Henry Campbcll-BftDnernian, the Hon. A. liirrell, and %he Hon. I{. B. Haldanc, are among the sufferers All are unable to attend the House of Commons.

KKIE-HABDIE IN SOUTH AFBICA. V Pretoria, February 21, Mr. ,J. Keir Uardie, the English Lalior leader. addre*-ed a " picked " meeting at Pretoria. Afterwards lie was pelted with eggs.

XATIONAUSIXO HISTORICAL BATTUEGROIsms.

Ottawa. February 21. F.arl C4rey's si-heme for the nationalisation of the battlefields of Canada i* progressing. The Canadian liovornment ha* contributed £60.000, and Quebec £20,000. Publie subscription* are expected to rearh £120,000.

SEDITION IN INDIA. Calcutta, February 21. The printers of two native' news'-pajx-r- published in Calcutta were sentenced to twenty-four and twelve months' imprisonment respectively for publishing seditious artioles.

STATE WORKERS' SAT:AR IKS. London, Fehru.irp 21. The Posfniaster-fjencral, Hon. Sidn r y Buxton, is adopting rerommendations of the Hohhouse Oomniissron fo add one million pounds yearly to the nggre" if e salaries and wages of post office officials. The newspapers protest against the employees vigoron 5 lr agitating for ret better terms. The Pall Mall flzaette savs the St ife wage-earners ore iMVOTninpthe masters of those who pay them.

RrSSIAX TERRORISTS ARRESTER St. Petersburg. February 21 Police officers discovered the'll.nill.-s of a gang coimec-fed with the Yiborg terrorists wh„ intended to as-as-Irate vsirioii"' hiirh oer-onages in Rnssi,. Thcv irre-t,.,! ildrtv-f-.-,' at Sr V,-.. ~r-1.„.-< Some TreTe carrying bombs, and several used revolvers, wounding their capfrjr=.