GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 94, 9 April 1908, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

BKUNNEH COAL MJNJ2.

lteceived Bth, 10.4G p.m.

London, April S. -the North llrunner Ooal Minim.- ('pin]>ii».y is issuing 5,->,uoo preference shares at 7 per cent.

K.MiI.YICHRK' UNION. London, April ,". The Aiualgamaed Society of Kinnnfi'r.s has accepted Mr. G. N. Barncs'V sanation of the secretaryship

CABLE CODE WORDS. | ~,, . Calcutta, April 7. , there is an outcry amongst eommcr- | vial men in India o ve r (ho inlentio,! of certain J'.uropean Mates to oppose the contniuation of the „se of artificial eal.le code words at the Lisbon telegraph conference. ESTATE. London. April s. I be late Lord Kelvin's estate is valued at ;tijo,or);i.

THE COLLATED HOCKES DISASTER. London, April 7. It has been ascertained that there were only twenty-eight persons m tho houses m Castle street which collapsed. Eight were killed. Three who were aeriously hurt are detained at hospital. Seventeen were Klighl.lv injured

A JAPANESE INSULT. Pekin, April 7. hour Japanese, apparently out of motives of private, revenge, entered the \lncrlcan Consulate at Mukden and utacked the Maiichurian staff. The Con-•nl-Ceneral had lliem arrested and con'eyed to the Japanese Consulate. :w ipology was offered.

ESITONAC-E IN GEL!JIANV. Berlin, April 7. A lieutenant of Ihe While Dragoons has disappeared from Metx. lie was

suspected of selling military secrets, jp. eluding the design of the' new quickfiring gun.

A MILLIONAIRE'S PALACE. London, April 7. Mr. I'ierpont Morgan, the American millionaire, has purchased the Aldolirandiui Palace at Koine.