GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 179, 20 July 1908, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

THE A.M.P. SOCIETY. Received 19, 10.30 p.lll. Loudon, July 18. The Loudon directors of the Australian Mutual Provident Society have hem appointed as follows:—Sir Henry Seymour King (chairman), Earl .Jersey, Air. Herbert (Jibbs, and Sir John Cockburn. A NEW STEAMER. Received 11), 10.30 p.lll. London, July 18. The Union Company's new steamer Makuiu has been launched on the Clyde. AN Allt TORPEDO. Berlin, July 17. Messrs Krupp, the famous gun manufacturers, have acquired tile patent rights for the new air torpedo invented by Colonel Urge, of Sweden. Military experts declare that this is an epochmaking invention. KILLED BY LKUITMING. Paris, July 17. Lightning struck a farmhouse near St. * Clfi'istopher. Thirteen out of the fourteen people in the house were killed. MADAME LEMOINii' SECURES A DIVORCE. Paris, July 17. A divorce has been granted to Madame Lemoine, whose husband has disappeared and is wanted to answer a charge of fraud in connection with his diamond-making experiments, FATAL EXPLOSION. New York, July 17. A Customs oflicer at Boston tried to open with an axe a'box of detonator caps landed from the Hamburg-Ameri-liner Bethania. The caps exploded violently. The officer and an inspector and a warehouseman were killed. Several bystanders were injured.

DISTILLATION OF WHISKY. London, July 17. All interim report issued by the Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the manufacture of whisky recommends tlmt no restriction be placed on porcessor or apparatus to be used in the distillation of wliiskv.