GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 76, 19 March 1908, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

THE PREMIER'S HEA^-jjr. London s, lirell 17 hastakennou^nfen,^ d S aUd Received IStj, 9 . 32 ~m _ ' n ~ , jLondon, March 18. Al,nl l^ 6X n lUl '-'' a "<> th * Kmpw Betters astray. London, March 17. A of registered letters, posted at on the 21st inst. for transmission to New York by the steamer was enclosed in the wrong mail »ag> s 'and travelled to Yokohama.- The imsßing correspondence is now proceedm to New York. v

id DISTINGUISHING MISS NIGHTINGALE. v ' London, March 17. I A nephew of Hiss Florence Nightingale received at the Guildhall on her boL . halt the Freedom of the City. The City Chamberlain remarked that it was ~ strange that earlier generations of civic j authorities had failed to distinguish themselves by distinguishing Mi B s Nightingale. ' . cattlelwsease. . I _„ . London, March 17. | Ihe Government authorities state that the foot-and-mouth disease, which broke out among herds of cattle near Edinburgh, has been stamped out. SHIPPING FIRM FAILURE. -London, March 17. The hearing of the petition for the compulsory winding up of the Sunderland shipping firm of Sir Jas. Lamg and Sons, was adjourned in order to give counsel an opportunity to cross-examine, witnesses. Counsel stated that the company since 1900 had lost upwards of £250,000. No reason was given for these losses.