GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 103, 22 April 1908, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

AMERICAN AMBASSIES. New York. April in. Air. Longworth introduced into Congress a Bill to appropriate il.DiW.mri to provide residences tor America.n Ambassadors at Paris and elsewhere. A CHURCH CENSUS. London, April 20. The decrease in tbe number of Weskyaa Methodists for the year is the largest for half a century. The figures an:—Full members, a decrease uf 4392; trial members, 1179; junior-, 2135. SOUTH AFRICAN RAILWAYS. Pretoria, April 20. Sir George Farrar, Sir Percy Fitzpatriek, and Mr. Quinn have resigned their teats on the Intercolonial Council, owing to Lord SWbornc's instructions to its Railway Committee to immediately enforce the Railway Commissioners' recommendations. INDIAN TELijGRAPII STRIKE ENDED. Calcutta, April 20. The Indian telegraph strike ha- ended. The Government lias appointed a committee to inquire into the grievances. A SHIPBUILDING COMPANY'S FAILURE. London, April 20. Leech, Harrison and Forwood, the big Arm of Liverpool shipowners, have assigned their estate. MURDER AND SUICIDE. London, April 20. From motives of jealousy, William Boobolitz, a lace merchant and warden of Bt. Paul's Church, committed suicide after mulrdering a married woman flamed Power, who cohabited with one Staines.