GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 57, 26 February 1908, Page 4

GENERAL CABLES.

INVIXATIUX TU AUAJJKAL K\'A.\S, Hulbourne, February 25. -Ur. A. Ueakin, Federal I'remier. lia, not yet received a reply to invitation to the Ami'i'ieaii lleet to visit Autralia. THE MiW AL'.STJtAUAN ADMIKAI,. Alclbourne. J'ebruarv •!'). Admiral Pooiv hoists Ins || ;l m as wmnninder ol the Australian Squadron to-' day. JtAHKIT DKSTKiri.TIOX. Midbourne, Kebruary 'lo, I h<> Victorian State (iovernnuMit has decided that it is inadvisable, in view ol (he present knowledge of the ;>»■! their ellVtt, thai the Danysz virus 'or rabbits should be brought into Australia.

ATTKMPT TO P() ISON A ]!A!iY. •Sydney. Ftduuary 2*>. I hi' man ( hind, who was charge I with attempting pojsun to be administered n, a baby, was found -uill.v- \he ( ourt senteiued him to four gears' imprisonment.

[(■ hard wrote to a voting woman su<rthat she. .siiouM poison her lialiy t.l I'liaWe her to uiarrv him. There were em-losed in the letter a liio tlo'.e of -tryehniue with iustriu-tiou for its use.J

l)A.\(;|.;uors EXtiINJCS, Sydney. Feliruary Ihe eity eleetri<- Jinfliting eoniim'ttee discussed the expert's report, wliieli showeil that llie engines were in urgent need of overliaulini;. and thai in senile eases it was unsafe to work llieni. yie eoiinnittre decided that immediate repairs should he carried out.

CXITKD -STATUS XAVV. New York, I'Vlu iiary 24. The Naval Committee of the I'nited .States House of l'epresentatives reduced the number of battleships to be built in the coining year from four to two, or possibly one. The committee recommended t lie const ruction 01 submarines of the Holland t-vpe instead of four.

-UliilDiili OF A i'KIKS'J'. >iew York. February 21. An Italian anarchist, while kneeling at the altar in Denver recciviug the sacrament, shot and killed Father lleinrichs, the oliiVialing priest, and then escaped. Hi l was captured later and nearly lync'lied.

NAVAL UAJUIjoR AT IUSTIXtiS. Ignition. fcbruary 21. 'I In' I),lily News says tlic Ouvernniciit i-i purchasing Hastings liarlior witii the intention ut forming a naval station there. NKWI'OI'XIJLAXD l-'isiIKIUICS UISL'L'TIC. London. I't'lil ii.i ly 24. '1 lie Times says the Canadian anil Newfoundland { .'overjnnents have jointly agreed to siilnnit the Newfoundland fisheries dispute to lite Hague Triliuna).

[Creat indignation was caused in Canada last year l>y the decision of the Jirilish (iovernnient to renew the agreement wi'li the failed States regarding the Newfoundland fisheries. The people of Newfoundland had regarded Hie agreement as an unsatisfactory and merely temporary arrangement. 'l'he dispute arose a lew years ago over the I'nitcil Slates' lishernien's methods of taking tisli and recruiting el'ows. and their lalnre to observe the Newfoundland lishiitg laws.l

HlilTAlX AND .1 AI'AN. London', Fehrnarv 24. Tho I),lilt Hail says that Sir Kdward Orey. l'„rc.ign Secretary, is making friendly representations to Japan aliou 1 her refusal to sanction tlic Chinese permission to an English syndicate to lmild the railway from Hsin-'min-Ting to Tdkunien in .Manchuria. A CHUiCII ISKQCKST. L,union. t'eliruarv 2fv — Caiion Crecite, rector of Clapliam. aitor legacies to t w'u llepluuvs, loft (lie balance f.t It is AiTslralian property to the Ai'clihisJioii nf Aleilnuinie ami lite Hishop of Wangaralta in cptal sliares upon I rust f,,r the purpose, of their