GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 46, 19 March 1909, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

THE QUEEN OF ITALY. Received 18, |10.53 p.m. Rome, Marcli 18. The Queen of Italy is suffering from a -broken rib, sustained at Messina ttihils't storing a terror-stricken woimait irom wnipuHtLttg suicide. The iQueen refused medical aid at the time. TllH I'IiESS CONFERENCE. London. March 17. A motor tour,of the principal English cities is projected in connection with the Press Conference. i FINANCING CHINESE RAILWAY. London, March 17. Renter's Pckin correspondent says it j 5s expected that the German loan for ! the Canton-Hangkau railway will ba j withdrawn owing to opposition in Eng- ! lish and French quarters.

FRENCH POSTAL SEli\ ICE, Paris, March 17. There arc three million undelivered letters in France. Strikers cut the wires connecting Paris with tho pronntes. AMERICAN TARIFF. New York, March 17. Mr. Taft, President of the United States, lias presented an urgent message to Congress asking it to expedite the tariff revision and put an end to the disturbance in business by a speedy decision, »' ii«B CANNIBALS EXECUTED. London, March 17. A magician named Malukanu, his wife, two sons, and eight other women in the lringa district in German East Africa were tried for cannibalism. Ten were executed, ' j| *3* l