GENERAL CABLES.
THE KINO AND OI'KEX. Received February 14, 4.1-3 p.m. ' Berlin, February 13, King Edward and Queen Alexandra have started to return to London in severely cold weather, THE TOTTENHAM TRAGEDY'. Received February 14, 4.15 p.m. London, February 13. Hefeld, one of the nuthors ol the Tottenham tragedy and a member of the Russian revolutionary party, has «uccrumbed to the effects of his injuries. REVIVAL IN SHIPBUILDING. Received February 14, 4.15 ]i.in. London, February 1;(. Orders for 30,000 new tonnage have been placed with tie Clyde shipbuilders. Full time has been resumed in some vards. HEROISM RECOGNISED. Received February 14, 4.15 p.m. London, February IS. The committee of Lloyds' has conferred a silver medal upon Captain Runson, of the steamship Baltic, in connection with tie rescues frdm the wrecked Republic, TINNED MEAT CONTRACT. London, February 1!>. Referring to the War Office placing a contract for tinned meat with a Chicago firm, newspapers state that it was due to the colonial packers' inability and quality of meat. Representatives of colonial packers state that they did not tendef owing to an objection to a replacement clause. The AVar Office informed the Hoh. ,J. W..Taverner, AgentGeneral for Victoria, shortly before inviting tenders, that half a million pounds' delivery would be jre/jjiired in | the autumn.
A SANTIAGO SENSATION. j Santiago, February 12. Chancellor Beckert has been arrested for embezzling £IOOO. A body was found in the ruins of the Chancellory at Santiago. It has been identified as that of a porter who bad been stabbed previously, and was supposed to have absconded to London.
(A cable mesage received on Thursday stated that Beckert had been murdered. Evidently the body of the porter was mistaken for his.) CHINESE ENLIGHTENMENT,
Pekin, February J2. China is establishing a ConsulateGeneral at Ottawa and a Vice-Consulate at Vancouver.
GERMAN .WORKERS' IXSUUAXCB. London, February 12.
The Labour Commissioners' report eulogises as a whole the (Jcrman insurance system against accident, sickness, and invalidity.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 18, 15 February 1909, Page 3
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