GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 213, 2 September 1908, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

JAPANESE AMBASSADOR TO I BRITAIN. Received 2, 0.44 a.m. London, September I Baron Kato, a former Ambassador to Britain, and afterwards Minister for Foreign Affairs, succeeds Baron Komura as Ambassador at London.

THE GERMAN TORPEDO BOAT. London, August 31. Officers of the cruiser Vindictive boarded tihe German torpedo boat which entered the Tyne. The commander of the boat Hertzes, explained the nature of the damage which had induced him to run the boat into the port, and expressed his regret *at his action had caused the stoppage of the naval manoeuvres. The torpedo boat is being repaired.

FATAL EXPLOSION. London, August 31. An explosion occurred in a blast furnace at East Ardsley, Yorkshire. Five men were killed and seven injured.

POLISH MERCHANTS REMOVING TO LONDON. St. Petersburg, Arigiut 31. Sixty merchants from Warsaw, capital of Poland, are going to London to establish intercourse with English manufacturers in consequence of the boycotting of German goods in Poland SUNDAY CLOSING OF BARS. New York, August 31. The threat of the Governor of the Forts at New Jersey to send troops to Atlantic City to enforce tlic law foi the Sunday closing of liquor saloonhas caused - the liquor-Sellers to comply with the law.

AMERICAN ANTI-OAMBLTNG LAWS. , Xew York, August 31. Not a singl-e betting book was made on the course at Sheepshead Bay when the Futurity Stakes race was run Only a few hundred people were pre-; sent. Last year, before the introduction of the 'Anti-Gambling Act, forty thousand spectators attended the meeting.

THE NORTHERN TERRITORY. Adelaide, September 1. An offer has been made on behalf of a. syndicate of English and German capitalists to the State Government to taku over the Northern Territory on the terms on wlhich it was offered to the Commonwealth Government.