GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 136, 30 May 1908, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

° CLERICAL APPOINTMENT, d

Received 29th, 9.35 p.m. London, May 21). 'fke Kov. Henry Steel Craik, formerly of Western Australia, has been appointed to the Beresford street Congregational Church, Auckland. Ho sails in July. CONSECRATION OF A CATHEDRAL. Received 29th, 0.48 p.m. London, May 29. The Archbishop of Canterbury consecrated the Soutliwark Cathedral. The Rev. Twitchell, Missionary Bishop of Polynesia, and the Bishops of Melanesia, Carpentaria and Waiapu (New Zealand), assisted. STATE ENTERTAINMENT FUND. London, May 28. Mr. Lloyd-George has instituted a Government fund for affording hospitality to foreign visitors. THE ORIENT STEAMSHIP COMPANY. London, May 28. The directors of the Orient SteamNavigation Company announce that flioy will shortly ask the shareholders to increase tho capital. AERONAUTICS. Rome, May 28. M. de la Grange, in tho presence of King Victor, at Rome, flow his aeroplane five times round the Palace D'Ariacs, equal to ten kilometres (about 6>/t miles), in nine minutes. CHINESE STOWAWAYS SMOTHERED New York, May 28. Twelve Chinese who were consigned to Now York a« merchandise*'** ftmu Texas, in order to evade fares and polltax, died in transit owing to lack of ventilation. COLLISION AT SEA. 1 New York, May 28. Tho schooner Fame collided with the British steamer Boston in flic Bay of Fundy. The former sunk, and sixteen of her crew were drowned. BANK ROBBERS SENTENCED. Paris, May 28. Two men named Wongorsky and Dobowsky were sentenced to imprisonment for life and twenty years respectively for raiding and shooting two persons in the Bank of France at Montrouge in September last.