GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 294, 7 December 1908, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

'•THE PROTECTRESS OF THE I'TfEXCfI." Received (i, 4.5 .p.m. Home, December 5. Tile I'ope has fixed the Beatification of Joan of Arc in April. .She will be proclaimed a» the protectress of the French.

| BEQUESTS TO CHARITIES. ' j Received (i, 4,5 p.m. London, December 5. The late .Mr. Baniato bequeathed a quarter of a million to charities. DLSl'l'Tli OVER AX ISLAND. Paris, December 4. I A discussion lias arisen at Paris regarding an official report from Tahiti that the British Consul has granted Henderson Island to Elizabeth Pueie J aud Oens Island to another concessionaire. It is stated that Oens Island, ae- | cording to one map, is French, nnd according to another is British. STANDARD OIL TRUST. . , Xew York, 'December 4. lining evidence at the Standard Oil Trust inquiry, J. D. Arelibohl, v : . epresident of tile Trust, testili ■.! . • the _ Trust owned or eon!roll panics with an aggregate ca:, . j;U5,000,w0. * I

THE 151UTISH ARMY. London, December 4. Jn tliii House of Lords the statement made by .Mr. Ji. B. Haldane, ■u'cretnrv for War, that the Arjnr was ikiw stronger b,v !W,oo<) men tliaji m l!IO.i, was challenged by Lord Erroll and Lord iMiddletou. Lord l.neas justilirt tlie statement. FAMOUS BOOK COLLECTION'. London, December 4. Ureal prices were obtained at the -ale of Lord Amherst's library. Tlie ; ir»t volume of tlie Mazari'n Bibb etched .C 2050, It is believed that Mr. I'ierpont Morgan, the American milionaire, bought the famous sixteen .'axton prints ni (he Amherst collec--ioii. THE COLOR I'KOTILEM. Durban, December 4. Tlie Natal Mercury states that the mpnrtation of coolies must soon cease, 'oath Africa, whether federated or only inilied, will not permit it any longer, 'lie Mercury relies upon the'example if Queensland in dealing with the cplor iroblem. • DEFENCE OK CANADA. Ottawa, December 4. The Toronto Hail, in discussing I.'>>■■: 'oberls' warning co Britain, urges 'anada to. reduce her expenditure on niliiia 111- ■tl.nnn.nno, and to spend the nonev on the purchase of four cruisers nr the Atlantic, thereby defending the oastal and river fronts. WOMEN"* Sri'TßAfiE. London, December 4. A large and influential rommtttM,« ms been formed, irrespective of pnrtr, 0 oppose tlie extension of the frinliiiitt W WOWH.

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