GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 54, 29 March 1909, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

EMIGRATION TO AUSTRALASIA. Received March 28, 4.;t0 p.m. London. March 27. Tlie Emigrants' liiforniiition Office reports tliiiL during IUUB inquiries respecting Australasia increased 4!) per cent, compared with 11KI7, and nearly double Canada's. Tlii' increased departures to Aiistrulin totalled 2!,(i!H, and to New Zealand 11,(17.").

KX-puksid).;xt CAsri: . Herlin, March 2(1.

I'A-Presidcnt Castro is returning from Kin-ope. lie will remain at Trinidad, and will not lie allowed in land at Vcneznela. The owners of steamers will be prosecuted if they bring liim from Trinidad.

SUICIDE IX lllfill LU'lO. Washington, March 2li. After a dinner in honour of Lady Arthur Paget, at Washington, Mrs. Pierre Lorillnrd, junior, wife of a tobacea magiuito. committed suieide bv inhaling gas in a bathroom, whilst she was still wearing u diamond coronet.

TDK I'AIJIS POSTAL STIiIKK. Paris, March 2(1. No English mails have reached the Riviera for six days. Many visitors and invalid, are without funds. •Inhibition exists among the strikers nl their success. There is increased anxiety bsl another strike should be impending! especially as the Government threaten to prosecute the franiei's of yesterday's blatant manifesto.