GENERAL CABLES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 170, 11 August 1909, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

KING EDWARD. F/Cable,—Press Association.—Copyright Received August 10, 11,10 p.m. London, August 10. King Edward starts for Marienbad direct to-day. He stays there three weeks and then returns to England direct. LIEUT. SHACKf,ETON'S OBLIGATIONS. London, August 0. Some newspapers arc urging the (jovernuient to discharge Lieut. Shackleton's expenditure, which greatly exceeded the guarantee.

THE TURKISH CABINET. London, August 0. Ferrid l'aslia, Turkish Minister for the interior, iius resigned. Talat Bey, leader of tliu deputation to Britain, succeeds liim.

RUSSIAN OFFICER'S PUNISHMENT. St. Petersburg, August 8. I.ieut. Akiionolf, Commander of the Hussian Submarine Knmbala, width saik tind resulted in the loss of 15 lives, vras sentenced to live' years' imprisonment with hard labor for the malversation "f C33(l allocated ty the Katnbala'e ro» pairs,

TRAIN AND TRAM COLLISION. Paris, August 0. A goods train collided with a tram at Loiigjmneau, Paris. Eleven persons wore killed and thirty injured.

NATIONAL BANK OF TURKEY. London, August 0. Sir Henry Baliington Smith, Sccratary to the Post Office, has accepted the presidency of the National Bank of Turkey, which is now in the course )l formation.