GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 277, 17 November 1908, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

UNEMPLOYMENT IN GERMANY. Berlin, November 15, In the Reichstag, Herr Molkeabuhr, Social Democrat, .mentioned tlmt it was estimated that there were 420,000 unemployed in Germany. He asked for the establishment of a of State insurance against unemployment at a cost of i 11,000,000 a year. llerr von Bethinann Hollweg, Mlu.istor for the Interior, replied that most of the causes of the present crisis had diminished in force and the financial conditions had improved. There Merc 2.7 per cent, of worke. e m (ierma.iy unemployed in July R4 compared with 8.3 in England and S.J in France.

PERSIAN AFFAIRS. < Tclieran, November 15. Crowded meetings arc held here daily i , '"'"W" , lk ' luandi »g tiiat fie 1 sl " 1 ' 1 f "'"l 'us promises. The op.m troop! slvee ' a are occupied by

OBITUARY. ~ I>l,ris > November 15. I ho, (.land Duke Alexis, uncle of the (»i r ol Russia, died here of mi»unionia. 1 I'ANKiTuiir RELEASED. n i. . i '' oni ' on '. November IS. Jlis. 1 ankliui'st, tile *ull'rflf!«ttc lea.loi. who was recently imprisoned in Ilolloway gaol f or creating a diaturliboon Commons, ilns health thp

A MILLIONAIRE JII'RDERED. ... Xew York, November 15. M u- I', 1 ' 111 "'' " f ,,r ""r einploTCO of •"i Walter Amnion, the millionaire iiioo-nni i'«a rmo manufacturer, sliot iff. Amnion (load at New Jvrae.v in conso(|iionoo of a business quarrel.