GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 228, 19 September 1908, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES.

CHOLERA. London, September 17. The British merchant, «jii.p Saxou has been quarantined at llclsingt'ors, four eases of cholera having been detected on board. CANADIAN ELECTIONS. Ottawa, September 17. The general elections for the (Janaedian Parliament will ba held in October S2G. INDIANS IN TIIE TRANSVAAL. , Calcutta, September 17. The president of the Bombay Assoeiation has wired to Lord Ampthill stating that the Indian public vehemently appeals to the British Government to save Indians in the Transvaal from the outrageous tyranny of the Trans vtial 0 overnmen t. INDIAN FAMINE ENDED, Calcutta, September 17.j Tli<! famine throughout the country lias oome to ail end. The relief works have been closed. A PROFESSOR'S DEATH. London, September 17. The coroner's jury, after an inquiry into the death of Professor J. Churton Collins, returned a verdict of accidental death.

ACCIDENT TO Sill T. F. BI'XTON. London, September ii. Sir Thomas Powell Buxton, President of the Anti-Slavery Society, was thrown from his horse at Elthain Abbey. He was much shaken, and, it is feared, liaa been injured internally. EXPLORATION OF THIBET. Calcutta, September iV. During his exploration of Thibet, Dr. Sven Uedin discovered a great continuous mountain chain 2000 miles long stretching east and west to the northward of Brahmaputra Valley. THE UNEMPLOYED. Loudon, September 17. The British Government ordered the new destroyers earlier than usual with a view to mitigating the distress prevalent in Newcastle. AUSTRALIAN PREMIERS RIDICULED. London, Septemoer I'i. The Horning Leader declares tliat Mr. W. H. Kidston, Premier of Queensland, and Mr. T. Price, Premier of South Australia, on their recent visits to England, made themselves thoroughly ridiculous by reproaching me Motherland for not using Australian butter. There is proof of this, says the Leader, in tlie high prices ruling in Australia.

AMERICAN POLITICS. New York, September 17. The Democratic Convention of New York State, in session at Eocheter, nominated the Lieut.-Govcrnor, Mr. Chanler, for the Governorsnip ol the State, in opposition to the present Governor, Mr. Hughes. RUSSIAN BOMB PLANT. St. Petersburg, September 17. The police discovered in a tavoru frequented by male and female students three bombs and half a hundredweight of dynamite. They seized these and arrested eighty-five suspects.