GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 183, 24 July 1908, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

THE HON. W. P. REEVES. Cfei&L. : •" Received 23, 11.38 p.m. London, July 23. The Hon. W. Pember Reeves (High Commissioner for New Zealand) has been appointed director of the London School of Economics and Political Science in connection witto the London University.

PERSIAN UNREST. , Teheran, July 22. The Shah has ordered three tribes of brigands to reinforce Rachim, the commander of the Royal forces at Tabriz. OUTRAGE ON BRITISH BLACKLEGS fci»t . m*— ' '■*" ' Stockholm, July 22. Nilsson, a revolutionary socialist, has confessed that he perpetrated the outrage on the British dock workers at Slalmo on the 12th inst. GAMBLING TOLL. • Paris, July 22. On the ground that the bank levies no toll on the game of bridge, this game has been prohibited at the casinos of Aix-les-bains and Contrexeville, the only games permitted by license being baccarat and ecarte.

THE FRENCH PRESIDENT. j Copenhagen, July 22. The French President, M. Fallrcriw. called at Copenhagen on his way,to Russia, and- received a cordial welcome.

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Brussels, July 22. Several suspected anarchists have I been arrested at Brussels. It is ru- J tnored (hat the anarchists were eon- | spiring to take the life of King Leo- j paid. A MOTOR ACCIDENT. San Francisco, July 23. The widow of Robert Louis Stevenson, the famous author, was seriously injured while motoring at San Francisco. A NEW DIVERSION. New York, July 22. The boy. runners belonging to the Young Men's Christian Association carried a tube containing a message from New York tp the Mayor of Chicago, a distance of 1130 miles, in 115 hours 47 seconds. The distance was sub-divided into 2000 sections, with a boy for each. Intense popular enthusiasm was aroused by this feat.

UNION BANK OF AUSTRALIA. London, July 22. The balance-sheet of the Union Bank of Australia shows deposits amounting to £ 10,1)00J)00, cash investments and remittances in transit £!),!)24,()n0, bills and securities £14,820,000.

MILLIONAIRE SHIPBUILDER. London, July 22. The personal estate of the late William Lit'hgow, shipbuilder, of Russell and Company, has been valued for probate at over £1,000.000.

RAND MINES CLOSING. Capetown. Julv 22. With a view to making further retrenchment!), the De Beers Company will close its Kimberlv mine on the 31st inst. This will throw out of employment 200 whites and 1200 natives.

IRELAND'S CONDITION'. London. Julv 2'. M*-. Justiee Kennv, in the Oalwn'' Am!?*", paid the condition of .the whole of fJalwav. except. Connejwvrrn. was d-nlorable. Roycottintr under jojrce,, protection had greatly in , €FtWej£

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