GENERAL CABLES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 167, 9 August 1909, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

CAPITAL PUNISHMEXT IX FRANCS. By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyrigi t Paris, August 0. A man named Buchanan, convicted of parricide, has been guillotined at Paris. AUSTRALIAN ACCOUNTANTS. London, August 0. Mr. Yarwood, representing the AueJralastian Corporation of Accountants, is urging the Colonial Oflico to grant the society a charter. He asserts that the Victorian Government in under a misapprehension, as the charter would not deprive the -existing institutes of their rights, under the Victorian legislation, but would enable the accountants of other States' to practice anywhere in Australia with the Australian degree. The Earl of Jersey is supporting the application.

A FRENCH SUBMARINE. Paris, August 6. The new French submarine Arcliimede has been launched at Cherbourg. She is the largest submarine in tin norld, her tonnage being 800.

AVIRELESS TELEGRAPHY, I New York, August 8. A Bill now before the United States Congress requires wiretau equipment, under heavy penalty, on Mean ateamera with ft carrying capacity of not leu tlian fifty passengers. ' „ „.. London, Augmt 6. Mr. Winston Churchill 1» considering -the introduction of legislation similar to the aliove.

THE TENNYSON CENTENARY, London, August 6. Newspapers publish long articles On the centenary of Lord Tennyson.