GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 325, 18 January 1909, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

TO EXPLORE NEW UUINEA. Received J7, 4.s|j p.m. Loudon, January 10. llerr .Uikkelsen, Arctic explorer, is about to explore, Dutch X cw Guinea, under the auspices of the Dutch and Danish Governments, and the Scientific boeiety of Copenhagen. IMIMiIUBATION TO QUEENSLAND* Received 17, 8 p.m. ... London, January Iff. Sir Horace Tozier, Agent-General for Queensland, despatched 2331 assisted I roe emigrants to Queensland last year

A FAST TORPEDO. London, January 13. the torpedo destroyer Tartar exceedMl, under war, auditions, 38 knots an Hour. This constitutes a world's record. 'PRESIDENT IKXISBVELT AS A HORSEMAN. New York, Junuarv IS. n order to demonstrate Uie reasoaahleness of liw recent order that military and naval oilicers should periodically ride ninety miles in three days, I resident Roosevelt yesterday, in 17 liours, through .snow and slush' rode 118 miles without fatigue. ■rill? BRITISH AHMV. (XKulon, Junuarv 15. I. nil Lucas, speaking at Belfast, said that Hritam was able immediately \o ifiid HW,IMI» men abroad, but there'wag still a shortage of 501)0 officers. SECRETARYSHIP OF THE SOCIETV OF ENGINEERS. Ijondon, Junuarv 15. Air. .teiikm Jones lias .been elected to succeed Mr. Hamas as general secretary u> the Amalgamated Society of Engineers. THE PERILS OF MIXING. - Vienna, January 15-. An explosion of fire-damp in tire\ulca colliery at Wazprem. in Hungary, villed fifty-six out of two hundred perions in the mine.