GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 238, 1 October 1908, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

AN EARL'S OFFER. Received 1, 1.5 a.m. London, September 30. Tlic Daily Mail asserts that the Earl of Sliaftgsbury declined an oiler of £IOOO a week for ji*:K» weeks; concert tour of America. The Earl is gifted with a beautiful voice.

OBITUARY. Received 1, 0.40 a.m. London, September 30. Obituary: Mr. .hick Melbourne, manager of t'le Cojonial Mutual Life Co. A NEW DI'X'ORATION. Received 1, 0.40 a.m. London, September 30. Kin;; Edwar.l hi>s created a long sir vice decoration for commissioned ollicers of the Territorial Force.

ARGENTINE AND BRAZIL. Buenos Ayres, September 20. The, Argentine. Parliament has approved an arbitration treaty witli Brazil. THE DALAI LAMA. Pekin, September 29. The Dalai Lama of Thibet, accompanied by eighty attendants, has arrived at I'ekin, He was welcomed by the authorities and escorted in state to the Yellow Lamasery. FOREST FIRES IN AMERICA. New York, September 21). i Copious rain Jias extinguished fire forest fires in the United States except in the Adriondacks. LORD MAYOR OF LONDON. London, September 21). Kir George Wyatt Ttuscott has been elected Lord Mayor of London. Sir George bad been an Alderman of Leadon for a few years. His father, Sir Francis Tr'nscott, had been Lord Mayor in 1870-RO. and an Alderman for a great many years. TOWNS-BARRY SCULLING MATCH. London, September M. Towns and Barry are both training bard for their sculling work aud are in line form. BOOK WAR KNTDICD. London, September 2!). The Daily News states that Who 'xinics has .joined the Publishers' Association, thus 'ending the book war.

TUBERCULOSIS IN BRITAIN. New York. September 20. Dr. Newsholme informed the Tuberculosis Congress at Washington that Mr. John Burns, the British President of the Local Government Board, had directed all ipoor-law medical officers to notify any sanitary authorities applying for such information of all eases of phtlHisis occurring in their respective parishes.