GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 87, 8 May 1909, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

A DREADNOUGHT CONTRACT. , " London, .May (j. „l Nott's Shipbuilding and Engineering j Company. Greenock, contracted for one of tiie four Dreadnoughts. |(l Received May V, 11.45 p.m. is London, Mav 7. Hie Palmer's shipbuilding company ai \ t Jarrovv will build a second of Hie 'four ." Dreadnouglits, '" NATAL STRIKE ENDED. Received May 7, 11.45 p.m. Durban, May 7. The railway strike in Natal has collapsed, j AMERICAN FISCAL CHANGES. Received May 7, 11.45 p.m. Washington, .May 7. 2 The I'nited States Government has v renounced the commercial agreement con--1 eluded witli Germany in May. MO7. CANADIAN PATRIOTIC LEAGUE. Received Mav 7, 1u.5,i p.m. Ottawa, May '7. '■ A public meeting at Toronto decided . to organise a Patriotic League, similar • to the Australian League. -» THE STATE UK TIIE BALKAN'S. Vienna, Mav ti. Owing to the unsettled state of the Balkans. Austria is retaining 15,01111 reservists in Bosnia. WELSII 1)1 SESTA BLISHMENT. 'London, May (1. flic BMiops of Birmingham uiid'llcrc ford in the convocation voted ill favor of Welsh disestablishment. EMPIRE DAY. London, Mav 11. There are I7,:«l schools in the United Kingdom, containing.:t.il;)7.S.lß scholars, preparing to observe Empire Day. THE WHEAT GAMBI,B. New York, May 11. May wheat in Chicago sold at' I''!!'/, and July wheal at 117'/,. Mr. Patten , made extensive purchases of .Inlv , wheat. SUCCESS OF A MILITARY PLAY. ! Capetown. May (I. , "An Englishman'., Home" was. pro- , dnced at Capetown .with great success. ( PRINCE BLLOW'S THREAT. j Berlin, May (i. Prince BuU.w has determined to resign unless the Reichstag accepts the 1 basis of his financial policy before Whit- ,' sunlide. ' ~

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