GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 323, 14 January 1909, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

AERONAU TIC CONFERENCE.

London, July 12, A three days' aeronautic conference has commenced at the Ritz Hotel, Lonlion. There are forty delegates from dillerent countries present. Received 13, 10,30 pan. London, January 13. ■the Aeronautic Conference decided ' to found prizes totalling £48,000 for aviation competitions. Tho Conference appointed a committee to discuss with the various Governments the regulation of traffic in conuectioa with aerial navi. galiou. LECTURES ON THE EMPIRE. Received 13, 10.30 p.m. , , London, January 13. I lie Colonial Office's Visual Instruction Committee has issued seven lectures. ' on the lulled Kingdom (illustrated by lantern slides) and lectures on the colonies and India, the cost of which will

be defrayed by a special fund raised b» a committee presided over by Ladv. Dudley, under the Princess of Wales' 'h\\ r °vea?' Tl '° lccturcs wi " issued '■+ I THE PAPAROA'S BUTTER Received 13, 0.18 p.m. London, January 13. A survey of the Paparoa's butter i» pi weeding. Ihe contents of Nos. 1 antl - holds are affected by smoke. Tho damage in No. 3 hold varies greatly. A ZS Wc <iuantit - v is " niu

- * UNIFICATION OF SOUTH AFRICA. Pretoria, Januarv 12.. A vast majority of the people" of the ii'on" 3 ?' l 1i C t0 tl,e " 1,il!c «- "i of South Africa unless Pretoria is made the capital. czar's compensation to a merchant. ■ ■ •n „ St ; I>l ' l< ' rsb ">'K> Januarv 12. Ibe tzar.s compensation to Mr. Luxemburg, a London merchant, who was imprisoned at Odessa, is £7OOO. I THE LATEST IN TORPEDOES. London, January 12. an ' (-o,ls ' nw " I, K nn aerial torMOROCCAN affairs. ii 1 -tii... -Morocco, Januarv 12. Mi In. K1 lafid, the new Sultan of .Uoiocco, I,„ S welcomed the French ■miliary mission to Fez. A GERMAN CABLE. .... , Berlin, January 12. 1 hp first section of the Gorman cable to I ernambuco, on the ea«l coast of south America, is to be laid to Borkum, "'id the second to Teneriffe. Thence it is to be taken this year to Monrovia, the third section from Monrovia to eriinmbuco. is to be laid early in