GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 193, 5 August 1908, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

SIGHT-TESTING, n * Received 5, 0.37 a.m. a Sydney, August 4. u The attention of some of the leading [i opticians here has been called to a para- q graph in a Wellington paper of 13tli j Bills;-stating that thsi-eliemiatsjntoid, "i to "ask to introduce a a Bight-testing-Bill on Hie lines of Cue t New South Wales Act of 11)00. No such ( Act is on the New South Wales Statute- ; book. The Bill wa s introduced in the i Council, but failed to get beyond the ( Brat reading. | ; BANK HOLIDAY IN ENGLAND. Received 4, i). 45 p.m. London, August i. ' There was brilliant weather far the Bank holiday. Nearly two million persons left London for the holiday resorts, and four hundred thousand for the inhibition. ; LOUD KUi.~iUS 1-HOSTKATKD. Ottawa, August 3. '' Intense heat at Montreal caused the mrostration of Lord Roberts, who had Joine to Canada to attend the Quebec Centenary celebrations. Lord Roberts liad sufficiently recovered by last inday to leave on his return to England. ' MOTORING RECORD. New York, August 3. ' A 90-h.p. Napier car won the 30 miles motor race on the Brooklands track, attaining a speed of 101% miles an hour-* record. The winner beat a I 75-b.p. Mercedes car by only 60 yards. "RAGGED" TO DEATH. 1 New York,. August 3. A student of W«stpoint Academy was -ragged" so violently that he died from the effects. Light cadets of the Academy were expelled for taring taken part in the ragging. President Roosevelt was asked to confirm their expulsion. At first hj« approved it, but afterwards he cancelled -it on _■ ground that the cadets were inanls felton, only over-full of spirits.

THE ZIONIST MOVEMENT. London, August 3. ' Mr. Israel s&uigwill. tte novelist at a meetin" of tin- Jewish territorial or£Xt!oS entitled the Ito, announced th,,t a scheme was afoot tn wttl- a taTRO number of -Tows upon !»"•' '" " Western States of America. 1 e mp Jews to avoi.l astern cities and the Zionists, whoso raloH.no sc tioTOont scheme Mas invnossilile, to j<>iu the Ito movement.