GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 63, 4 March 1908, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

HEAVY SNOWSTORMS IN BRITAIN. London, March 2. There have been heavy snowstorms in EcotUnd. Several trains were embedded in the drifts. One was snowed up lor eighteen hours wr Itanoch. Heavy falls arc now ocurring in London. GREAT GERMAN CANAL. Berlin, .March o. The Berlin-Stettin ship canal, to cost '£2,i50.000, is to lie completed in R'l2. INDUCING LOYALTY IN SPAIN. Madrid, March 2. j

Upon influential advice received from persons acquainted with Catalonian affairs, Queen Ena and the Dowager Christina are about to go and reside at Barcelona in order to foster loyalty there. INCENDIARISM IN* BERLIN. Berlin, March 2. The police arc seeking the author of thirteen incendiary fires which hat*#rcorred at Berlin. The fire brigule is kept incessantly on the alert. GERMANISING OF POLAND. St. Petersburg. March 2. Prussia's expropriation law is deeply rebented in Ru-sia. It is interpreted as an effort to push the German boundary eastward.

THE AMERICAN ARMADA. New York. March 2. The Secretary tn the Nary i» preparing an estimate of the cost to Admiral Erans' fleet of a trip to Australia in re«ponse t<> the invitation of Mr. A. Deakin. Premier of the Commonwealth. THE FRENCH IN MOROCCOMorocco, Mareli 2. |t i- intended to considerably reinforce General Damnde to enable him to undertake extended operations. Reports from the Algerian frontier show that the movement against the French is increasing there.

WORLD'S WHEAT SUPPLIES. London, ilareh 2. The quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom i' 4,7!m.000 quarters; for the Continent 2,T0f1.n0: Atlantic shipment? 177,000; Pacific NW-OOfl quarters. C.UX TO REVOLUTIONISE WARFARE Xew York, Mare's 2. Uanjerten. a SwiSsAtncriean engineer. has offered to sell to the American Government for £1.000,000 an automatic noiseless, smokeless, and flashleSs gun.

BRTTTSH PREMIER'S HEALTH. ' London, March 2. ' Fir Henry Camphell Bnnnermann pas»•3 a restfnl night. His condition shows some improvement. S.WTTATTOV OF CATRO. Two million pounds is lieing spent on lie drainage of Cairo.