GENERAL CABLES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 176, 30 August 1909, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

UNDERWRITERS' LOSSEB. By Cable.-Press Wlation.-Couwißat Hcceived 29, f1.6 p.m. (pi i . London, August 20. wrecks during August are estimated at a million sterling.

UNITED SOUTH AFRICA. ~ . Ottawa, August •><. It is rumored in Ottawa that the British tiovcruncnt contemplates oHcring Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Premier of Canada, the Governor-Generalship of United South Africa, Sir Wilfrid Laurier declines to discUßs the subject.

CHOLERA IN HOIAAND. St. Petersburg, August 2". Steamers from St. Petersburg conveyed the cholera to Rotterdam, in Holland. Several fresh cases have occurred,

ELEOTfIICAL PLANT IN MINES. London, August -7. The Hon. H. J. Gladstone, Secretary of State for the Home Department, is appointing a committee of experts to revise rules for the ute of electrical plant in mines.

A PERSIAN OUTRAGE. London, August 27. Mr. Wright, of the Imperial Bank, and Mr. James, of the Indo-European Telegraph Company-, in Persia, are out of danger. (Mesas. Wright and James were amongst the inhabitants of a village near Herman, who were attacked by a band of 800 robbers and took refuge h a tower.)

METHODISM. London, August 27. Five Methodist Churches will be repw sented at the Methodist Assembly in London in October. Wesleyans send 27(1 delegates, Primitives 1(12, tie Reiform Union a, and the Independent Methodists 0.

MINING FATALITY. London, August 27. A cage containing thirty person* fell to the bottom of the pit at Penygrag, Glamorganshire, through the breaking of the cable. Six persons were killed and sixteen injured severely.