GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 176, 16 July 1908, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

COUNT ZarfEUZi'S AIRSHIP. ■Received lstlk, iUu p.m. i . Berlin, July*)s. , A mishap to the machinery interrupted the test flight of Count Zeppelin's airship.

SIHVJBR COMMUTED FOR TRIAL. ' 1 London, July 15. Kerier has been committed for trial OK Ml amounting to £20,000 and two Sureties of £SOO each.

MACEDONIAN AFFAIRS. London, July 14 The official note from Sir Edward (ssey, the British Foreign Secretary, •proposing the creation of a Turkish tnobile cohunn to suppress the bands of ttaraudere in Macedonia, is warmly approved by' France. Prince .Buelow, the German Chancellor, promises benevolent consideration of the scheme.

PERSIAN UNEEST. Teheran, July 14. ►T , The Shah's forces are bombarding pi. Tateis. ' 'ifr ■ ' ' London, .July 14. ? " ' Sir. C. A- Spring-Bice, the present British Minister at Teheran, has re'f'i: eigned owing to ill-health, h-;- .1 " ■ £■'> J' ■ A BIG ESTATE. .. London, July 14, r*- - : - The estate of the late Drake of *' Devonshire is valued at nearly £3,000,- >'? WO, _ ' . ■ ■ .ATORALIA'B NEW*GOVERNOR. London, July 14. b ' Xiord Dudley, who is fjhortly to leave .to Australia to take; up the position i':-- fit Governor-General, was granted an r - - attdieace by the King and Queen at )• ■ Buckingham Palace and tooK leave of tteir Majesties.

CANADA'S TERCENTENARY. ; London, July 14. ■ The Prince of Wales jia to leave •for Canada to-morrow io jnpresent \: King Edward at the Canadian tercenterfary celebrations. He is talcing with -linn Britain's subscription of £IO,OOO \ towards the fund for the erection of a Sf' memorial to Geriefals Wolfe and Montk Hilm.

i DISASTER TO FISHERMEN, fy. i Rome, July 14. - | squall on. the Catabrian coast £ wracked a number -of fishing-boats, j Twenty-one were drowned. nrRFF. CHILDREN ACCIDENTALLY t KILLED. London, July .14. While seamen of the warships Hermes *' . D d Durban were giving a display of i* fire-taving apparatus, three children, who had been placed on too of tempor- > a ry buildings to show the working of v ■ th ß facilities for life-saving, were killed s!" owing to the prematura ignition of the £" . building. One of the men mistook the / (ignal. The spectators thought the ehildren were dummies. i- THE IRISH LEAGUE. i ' London, July 14. ■ t The South Westmeath executive of the Irish League contemptuously referred back to the National Directory ■ Standing Committee the latter's order j for the disbanding of the Rochfort- " brings Branch for adopting a resolution recommending Mr. John Redmond to the premier for a Peerage in considetxtion of his . success in the Liberal ' taoSe, The Direototy baaed its action V <m the ground that the resolution was an act of treason, offensive to the iHHtirnaui ami contrary to tlhe constitu(lon. '