GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 214, 31 August 1908, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

THE TOKIO EXHIBITION. Received 30, 8.24 p.m. Tokio, August 29. The Tokio Exhibition has Seen, postponed until the jubilee of the Mikado's accession to the throne.

EMPEROR OP AUSTRIA. Received 30, 8.24 p.m. Vienna, August 20. The Emperor Francis Josef's condition is reassuring.

COUNT TOLSSDOI. Received 30, 8.24 p.m. St. Petersburg, August 20. Count Tolstoi is suffering from foot trouble. He is improving.

GERMAN ENTERPRISE. Received 30, 8.24 p.m. Berlin, August 20. German bankers have formed a company to lay a cable between Emden, one of the German African colonies, and Brazil. ENFORCING SUNDAY CLOSING. New York, August 28. The Governor of the fort of New Jersey tlhreatuns to send a body of militia. to enforce the Sunday Closing Act at Atlantic City. LATE RUSSELL SAGE'S FORTUNE. New York, August 28. It has now been ascertained Ihat thy late Mr. Russell Sage's fortune amounted to £12,800,000.

DANTE CELEBRATIONS. Rome, August 28. Th« committee which is organising the Dante celebrations at Ravenna in- ■.•:•<•.] King Emmanuel and the Popu to ;M:ticipate. The Pope'subscribed £4OO lo the. organisation fund and promised 1 to send a representative to bhe celebrations. DEATH OF A THEATRICAL PROPRIETOR. New York, August 28. • Tony" Paster, 'Hie well-known proprietor of New York music hallsf is (lead. '

BRITAIN'S FOREMOST DIPLOMAT. t- „, , .^pd oll . August 28.' King Edward Inndied with M. Isvolsky, the Russian Minister for Fowiira * Affiiirs, at Karlsbad. g

A SAFEBREAKER'R LENGTHY I SENTENCE. rm. «. Lon ilon, August 28. Thomas Rice Reed, a notorious tafe. breaker, was sentenced to fourteea J oars penal servitude at Glasgow. THE HOP CROPS. , London, August 28. I ins year's hop crops in England are reported to be of magnificent quality.